Monthly Archives: June 2014

HostingCon 2014 – Where M&A is Happening

HostingCon is just around the corner. If you did not get the memo, the conference is in Miami and runs from June 16-18, 2014. Included in a broad spectrum of seminars are several focused on mergers and acquisitions. Continue reading

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Microsoft Azure’s Brazil South Region Now Generally Available

After weeks in public preview, the Brazil South region of public cloud platform Microsoft Azure, located in Sao Paulo state, is now generally available. Continue reading

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Japanese Researcher Discovers 16-Year-Old OpenSSL Bug That Enables Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

A new OpenSSL bug has been detected on Thursday, which allows malicious intermediate nodes to intercept encrypted data and decrypt them. It is believed that the bug has existed since the first release of OpenSSL. Continue reading

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Data Breaches Cost Enterprises More as Employees Store High-Value IP in Unapproved Cloud Apps

Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) can result in the most costly data breaches involving high-value IP, according to a new report commissioned by Netskope and conducted by Ponemon Institute. Continue reading

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The Pirate Bay Co-Founder Faces 8 Months in Prison After Arrest in Sweden

The third of four Pirate Bay co-founders was arrested this week and is expected to serve his prison sentence, according to Naked Security. Peter Sunde (aka Brokep) was convicted in 2009, and has been on the run since his conviction was upheld with an altered sentence in 2010. Continue reading

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