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Even with Managed WordPress Hosting, End-Users Must be Proactive About Security

It is rare to go a day without hearing about a vulnerability impacting a certain WordPress plugin or theme. Most recently, vulnerabilities targeting WordPress thumbnailing plugin TimThumb, SEO plugin All in One SEO, and MailPoet, the newsletter plugin with more than 1.7 million downloads, have been exposed, leaving users and their web hosts scrambling to update to patched versions. Continue reading

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BaseKit Raises $7.35M to Further Develop its Website Building Platform

BaseKit, a website building platform available to customers of Tsohost,Fasthosts, UK2, 123-Reg and other web hosts, has secured £4.5 million (about $7.35 million) in funding from the Angel CoFund, a government-backed investment fund in the UK. Continue reading

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What Web Hosts Can Do About Revenge Porn

While it can be nearly impossible to remove video and images permanently from the internet, web hosts may at least have some power to curb one of the internet’s most disturbing practices: revenge porn. Continue reading

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Hackers Use Automation to Simplify Complex Attacks: FireHost Report

October 22, 2013 — Automation can be a web hosts’ best friend in a lot of ways, but it can also be an attackers’ best friend. According to a new report by FireHost, automation is increasingly helpful for attackers to simplify complex attacks. Keep on reading: Hackers Use Automation to Simplify Complex Attacks: FireHost Report Continue reading

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Anturis Offers Perceptive Server Monitoring with cPanel/WHM Plugin

October 4, 2013 — Anturis released a plugin in closed beta this week that makes it easy for small-to-medium sized businesses, web hosts and system administrators to add Anturis server monitoring and troubleshooting to cPanel and WHM. Keep on reading: Anturis Offers Perceptive Server Monitoring with cPanel/WHM Plugin Continue reading

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