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📅 - US Web Hosts Self-Censor: Newsweek - A Newsweek article, which will appear on newsstands next week, has condemned web host BlueHost (bluehost.com 👉 Total Reviews: 98
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👈 Official Responses: 17) for censoring users affiliated with foreign countries, however, this common practice, which has its faults, it can be argued that it is often the only way large web hosts can effectively weed out customers using web hosting for illegal purposes.
The Newsweek article described the situation when Belarus-born Washington DC lawyer Yaraslau Kryvoi got a notice in February from his web hosting firm that the blog he administers for his local Belarussian American Association chapter would be suspended and that he had 10 days to remove his content. This was, in effect, ...
🙌 Average Rating: 5.6 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 58
👎 Bad Reviews: 40
👈 Official Responses: 17) for censoring users affiliated with foreign countries, however, this common practice, which has its faults, it can be argued that it is often the only way large web hosts can effectively weed out customers using web hosting for illegal purposes.
The Newsweek article described the situation when Belarus-born Washington DC lawyer Yaraslau Kryvoi got a notice in February from his web hosting firm that the blog he administers for his local Belarussian American Association chapter would be suspended and that he had 10 days to remove his content. This was, in effect, ...
📅 - Spam Still On The Skids - Two weeks since web hosting provider McColo - the alleged host to some of the most heinous criminals on the Internet - went offline, analytics firms across the web have found that global volume of spam has dropped by up to 75 percent and is staying low. After staking out McColo (mccolo.com) for the past four months, the Washington Post's Security Fix blog found that the San Jose host was likely hosting "some of the most disreputable cyber-criminal gangs in business today," including child pornography, anti-virus scams and malicious software, which has stolen banking and credit card information from more than half a million people. Security Fix blogger Brian Krebs ...
📅 - McColo Shut Down Halts 75% of Spam - Allegedly hosting "some of the most disreputable cyber-criminal gangs in business today" according to Washington Post reports, web hosting provider McColo (mccolo.com) after going offline this week has reduced the global amount of spam by three quarters according to some estimates. The take-down of San Jose-based hosting company McColo.com by two of its upstream providers on Tuesday afternoon, after which Internet security firm SophosLabs (sophos.com) recorded a more than 75% decline in connections to its spamtrap mail servers. Similarly, security firm IronPort (ironport.com) reported a 70 percent drop in spam over the last two days and MXLogic ...