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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 ...
📅 - Suspected Scam Host Taken Down - After four months gathering data about web hosting service provider McColo (mccolo.com), the Security Fix blog has found the San Jose host may be hosting "some of the most disreputable cyber-criminal gangs in business today." According to Washington Post's Security Fix blogger Brian Crebs, McColo's malicious hosting was not limited to spam. "It included child pornography sites; sites that accepted payment for spam and child porn; rogue anti-virus Web sites; and a huge malicious software operation that apparently stole banking and credit card data from more than a half million people worldwide," Crebs wrote in a blog post.Looking up one of those IP addresses ...