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Sex.com Settles VeriSign Lawsuit - 📅 - Adult Internet company Sex.com announced on Tuesday that it had reached a final settlement in its six-year legal action against VeriSign for the alleged mishandling of the Sex.com domain by VeriSign's Network Solutions brand.



Sex.com did not specify the terms of the settlement in its announcement.

According to Sex.com, the companies settled the suit after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held VeriSign responsible for mishandling the extremely valuable domain name, a ...
Primus Acquires Magma for $16 Million - 📅 - Primus Telecommunications Group (primustel.com), announced on Monday that its wholly owned Canadian subsidiary Primus Telecommunications Canada (primustel.ca), has acquired Magma Communications (magma.ca).
Magma is a provider of Internet solutions to the Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa markets. Its services include Web hosting, colocation, managed services and Internet access.



Primus will acquire 100 percent of the issued stock of Magma for approximately $16 million ...
modwest.comModwest Hosts SANS Security Seminar - 📅 - Web hosting provider Modwest (modwest.com 👉 Total Reviews: 2
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) said last Friday that it will host a SANS weekly security seminar at its headquarters in Missoula, Montana beginning April 27, 2004 and running through July 6, 2004. The course, entitled "SANS Security Essentials," covers network security, incident handling, cryptography and other security fundamentals.



"SANS Security Essentials is still far and away the best, most current and comprehensive curriculum of its kind," says Jonathan ...
Mafia Scam Estimated at $750 Million - 📅 - Reports say that federal authorities now believe the Gambino crime family generated an estimated $750 million in revenue from its online adult businesses, a number that is much larger than a previous estimate of $230 million.



The news follows reports last month that US prosecutors had made several indictments against Lexitrans Inc. and other shell companies based in Overland Park, Kansas, believed to be linked to the Gambino crime family. These companies allegedly ran adult ...
Tax Sites Perform Well, Keynote Says - 📅 - A study conducted by Keynote Systems (keynote.com), a provider of Web performance management and measurement services, showed that online tax sites delivered good overall performance in the last four days leading up to the deadline of April 15.



The study measured the speed and reliability of accessing the home page or tax center section of tax information and preparation Web sites in 25 US cities. Tax sites measured by Keynote include 1040.com, Amazon.com's tax center, Ernst ...
InQuent Releases Provisioning Software - 📅 - Inquent Technologies (inquent.com), a provider of private-label Web hosting solutions, announced on Monday that it had released IQOS, a three-tier provisioning and hosting management software for service providers. IQOS, which runs on InQuent's blade servers, features an XML API that allows carriers and service providers to integrate shared Web hosting with their existing products and systems. The solution also offers flexibility for customers to create their own product packages and includes ...
Juniper Completes Buy, Shuffles Board - 📅 - Juniper Networks (juniper.net) announced last Friday that it has completed its acquisition of Netscreen Technologies, in a deal agreed to in February. As a result, the trading of Netscreen common stock will be suspended.



The company also announced on Monday that under the terms of the transaction, reported to be worth $4 billion, former Netscreen chairman Frank Marshall has been appointed as a member of the Juniper Networks board of directors, replacing Vinod Kholsa.
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EV1Servers Adds Plesk 6.5 For Windows - 📅 - Dedicated hosting provider EV1Servers (ev1servers.net) launched Plesk 6.5 (sw-soft.com/plesk) for Windows on its dedicated servers, the company announced on Monday, expanding its relationship with hosting automation software developer SWsoft (sw-soft.com).



"Plesk has been the control panel of choice among many of our Linux server customers since 2001," says Robert Marsh, CEO of EV1Servers. "We're pleased to offer the same level of security, reliability and scalability to ...
cybercon.com logoCybercon Deploys Top Layer Solution - 📅 - Cybercon.com (cybercon.com 👉 Total Reviews: 1
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), a provider of Web hosting, data center infrastructure and IT services, has entered into an agreement to resell Top Layer Networks' (toplayer.com) Attack Mitigator intrusion prevention solution. Under the agreement, Cybercon will purchase and resell Top Layer's Attack Mitigator to its customers and host the solution in its facilities.



Top Layer Networks' Attack Mitigator protects network resources and online assets against denial of service ...
Code Targets Windows SSL Vulnerability - 📅 - According to a report by research and analysis firm Netcraft (netcraft.com), code that can be used to exploit a recently discovered vulnerability in Windows SSL, was released last Wednesday, only a day after Microsoft (microsoft.com) described the flaw and issued a patch in security update MS04-011. The exploit code is known as SSL Bomb.



The flaw the code is designed to exploit, which Microsoft has listed as "critical," allows a remote attacker to take control of Windows 2000 ...