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The Company You Keep: Shared Hosting Security
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE You have probably heard the myriad of expressions that describe this phenomenon. Phrases such as, “in the wrong place at the wrong time,” “guilty by association”, and “judged by the company you keep”, all refer to a very real life...

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Fighting the Silent Killer: Spam
Friday, March 23rd, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Spam is ugly. In some ways, it may even be uglier than viruses or security holes. Spam is deliberate and calculated. The spammer wants your business but does not have the dignity to approach you through conventional means. Moreover, as...

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Why Is A PCI Review Not Enough?
Thursday, January 6th, 2011anirbansth  
ARTICLE (The Hosting News) - What is PCI: PCI is an acronym for Payment Card Interface. It is a set of best practice guidelines which are highly recommended by the PCI council primarily bolstered by credit card companies and payment processors and...

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Web-Malware: Headache for Firewalls
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010anirbansth  
ARTICLE (The Hosting News) - What is a Firewall?: Firewalls are pieces of software loaded onto servers, personal computers, OEM boxes and appliances. The primary job of this piece of software is to monitor the incoming and sometimes outgoing traffic to and...

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Fending off Malware attacks- Keeping it simple
Thursday, November 25th, 2010anirbansth  
ARTICLE (The Hosting News) – The current situation: Malware, malicious computer software which commits nefarious actions such as stealing sensitive information such as login credentials, financial information, contents of cookies and files have been spreading in the Internet like wildfire. Consider...

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