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Email filters cause Fasthosts outage

This past weekend, customers of Fasthosts provider experienced an over 45 minute outage. The company says one of its email filters caused the problem, but no email information was lost. Data will be restored and re-delivered to those who experienced the outage.

3FN protests FTC shutdown

Web host 3FN is countering the FTC’s claims of hosting and actively participating in the distribution of botnets, spam, and child pornography. The spokesperson of 3FN said that it may have been targeted by FTC due to associations with the Ukraine’s reputation of hosting malicious files and online crime.

YesPCI launches all-in-one solution for online vendors

A Payment Card Industry all-in-one solution was launched by YesPCI yesterday. It combines dedicated hosting, PCI compliance guarantees and merchant services for online vendors. YesPCI is a new joint-venture company by Total Apps and Colocation America.

CA buys Cassatt

IT management software giant CA has acquired Cassatt Corporation – a cloud computing software developer. As part of the deal, CA also inherits Cassatt’s intellectual property including existing and pending patent applications. According to the co-founder of Cassatt, its company is a leader in cloud-style architecture usage. The chief architech of CA also praised Cassatt […]

You-Student chooses DediPower as its provider

You-Student has picked DediPower as its provider for managed hosting services. You-Student is a UK student social networking community that offers a unique geographical login to its users and is only accessible for users with ac.uk email addresses.

ZayoGroup acquires FiverNet Telecom for $87.8 million

Zayo Group will buy  FiberNet Telecom for $87.8 million in cash, unless the 10-year old telecommunications provider receives a superior proposal by June 17. The transaction, however, is yet to be approved by the stockholders of FiberNet.

Tenzing joins Microsoft’s BizSpark program

Tenzing Managed IT Services has joined the Microsoft BizSpark program. It also joined the Software + Services Incubation Center. Both are part of a project developed by Microsoft that was made to provide software startups to develop their applications for Windows with free access.

UpClick launches free payment processing system

World’s first free payment processing solution UpClick provides online merchants an alternative to per-transaction processing fees. At the moment, only digitally delivered software and eBooks (up to $40 in value) are the items that can be used with the free payment processing solution.

LayeredTech to sponsor WordCamp conference

Layered Tech announced that it will sponsor the next WordCamp conference which will be held in San Francisco. The event is designed for users and developers of WordPress to meet and share their ideas. LayeredTech (one of the top ten blog web hosts) sees this event as an opportunity to support the WordPress software.

Torpig botnet hijacked; 70 GB of data recovered

Researchers from the University of California have successfully hijacked the Torpig botnet. They found that the botnet contained 70 GB of data that was collected in a 10-day period. The data included system data and sensitive banking information. The botnet, which infected approximately 180,000 machines, was hijacked by exploiting its “domain flux” component.