Archive for May, 2009
by FireHost Evangelist on May 30th, 2009
“Nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” – Benjamin Franklin
Before the dawn of the internet age, there were only two certainties in life and business. Now there is a third certainty, a website disaster, if you’re with the wrong hosting provider. These disasters take many forms, so we’ve assembled a list of the top ten website disasters. Prepare to be cautioned and amused.
The Top Ten Website Disasters
1 – Your data center catches fire, destroying your website and data.
2 – Russians hijack your website and steal your data.
3 – Your website becomes too popular and collapses.
4 – Hackers infect your website and fool your visitors into buying useless software.
5 – Activists attack and shut down a religious organization’s website.
6 – Hackers hijack your website and infect your visitors with malware.
7 – The FBI raids your hosting provider’s Data Center and confiscates all the computers.
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When you’re with the wrong hosting provider, these website disasters could be a matter of when not if.
FireHost protects your business from an otherwise certain website disaster by offering industry-leading security, geographic redundancy and a global content delivery network. This eliminates website disasters as one of the three certainties in running your business, giving you one less problem to worry about. If we could do anything about death or taxes, we would.
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by FireHost Evangelist on May 28th, 2009
Earlier this month, 21 year-old hacker, Philip Gabriel Pettersson (aka “Stakkato”), was named in a five-count indictment that includes one count of intrusion and two counts of trade secret misappropriation involving Cisco Systems, Inc. Read more at UPI.com
If an up and coming hacker/prodigy can penetrate the network of a publicly traded, global corporation with a security division, imagine how easily he could ruin your business.
Tags: Hackers, Website Security
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by FireHost Evangelist on May 26th, 2009
Soon after the Internet became a household word, so did “virus”. People learned that they had to protect their computers and email inbox or risk data loss, identity theft or malicious activity to their home machines. Over the last decade the internet has grown by leaps and bounds, and companies of every size now conduct business online.
While the software world has fought diligently to reduce the number of affective attack on the personal computer at home through anti-virus programs, hackers have turned their attentions to that which is most vital, but often not very well protected – the hosted website. A variety of tactics are being used by hackers against websites without regard to the size or industry of the business or organization. An American-based Internet security agency recently reported that Internet threats rose by two-thirds in April of 2009.
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Tags: DDoS Attacks, Denial of Service Attack, Distributed Denial of Service Attack, Phishing, Redundant Network Infrastructure, Secure Cloud Hosting
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by FireHost Evangelist on May 22nd, 2009
When it comes to hosting a blog on your website, WordPress is the platform of choice for many individuals, organizations, and businesses. The reasons for the popularity of this solution include breezy usability, pleasing aesthetics, and superior extensibility, just to name a few of the platform’s many highlights.
Extensibility through plugins is an important feature in WordPress. This tool allows users to build upon the original application and customize it according to their own needs, similar to add-ons in the popular Firefox web browser. Currently, there are thousands of WordPress plugins, but there’s one in particular enabling your blog to easily serve millions of visitors at once: The WordPress Super Cache.
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Tags: CMS Web Hosting, Content Management Solution, Wordpress Hosting, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Super Cache
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by brucem on May 19th, 2009
On FireBlog, we’ve discussed several vulnerabilities found in open source applications, but it’s important to mention that vulnerabilities exist in even the most protected application code. Even Microsoft, which has a 1:1 ratio of programmers to quality control analysts, cannot always prevent their software from containing exploitable vulnerabilities.
In just the last few months, Microsoft has announced two vulnerabilities discovered in their popular Office application suite. Specifically, these vulnerabilities affect Excel and PowerPoint, and both flaws allow hackers to install malicious software or even hijack a computer completely. For more information about resolving these two vulnerabilities, read the full report by Computer World.
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Tags: Application Protection, Hackers, Microsoft, Vulnerability Exploitation
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