LowEnd provider Clouvider suffered a website hack today. A group styling itself "Katyusha SecurityExploitCrew" defaced a website they manage, as reported on LowEndTalk. The site was a redirect to their main web site and no customer data was compromised. Clouvider posted the following statement: "At approximately 20:30 today (UK/London Time) we were made aware that one of our websites had been defaced, we are still current...
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Australian law enforcement will soon be able to takeover accounts and impersonate their owners, "disrupt data" by modifying it. Three new warrant powers are granted Australian Federal Police (AFP) an...
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AWS announced this week that Amazon Braket, their quantum algorithm development environment, is available now in their US East and US West regions. AWS Free Tier customers receive 1 free hour of simul...
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A while back, I used CoinBase (NASDAQ: COIN) for some cryptocurrency transactions and found their system buggy and the customer service nonexistent. After failing repeatedly to get an account verified...
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Do you have some domains you're looking to offload? Or are you looking for a new dot-something? One of the best places to buy and sell domains is on LowEndTalk, where you have a targeted audience of...
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If you haven't read LowEndTalk lately, you're missing out on some interesting stories and discussions. Here's some recent community news and threads that have been popping on the forum: Slacker Networ...
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Microsoft announced that they are raising prices for Office 365 subscriptions. The price increase is between 10% and 16%, depending on product. This is the first price increase since Office 365 launc...
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When a provider needs IPs, they typically request them from their Regional Internet Registry (e.g., ARIN) or purchase them from an IP broker. The blocks are then assigned to the provider's AS (Autonom...
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T-Mobile announced on Wednesday that a "a bad actor had compromised T-Mobile systems": "Some of the data accessed did include customers’ first and last names, date of birth, SSN, and driver’s license/...
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Spamhaus's 2021 Q2 Botnet Threat Update has been released and it's interesting reading. Overall, there has been a reduction in observed command and control (C&C) systems. However, at regional and...
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We don't see a lot of offers for Sweden. I'm not entirely sure why. It's obviously a very well-developed country with robust infrastructure, and historically some of the more famous/infamous free sp...
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Security research firm Fortbridge has released a report claiming to have discovered "multiple vulnerabilities in cPanel/WHM". The report states: "Our team has found multiple vulnerabilities in cPanel/...
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According to recent data, Microsoft Azure is the world's largest public cloud with $17.7 billion in quarterly revenue. Amazon AWS trails not far behind at $13.3 billion. The top five (which also inc...
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RackNerd, a well known provider within the LowEndBox & LowEndTalk community which was recently voted #1 top provider by the community members, was recently featured on an interview with HostAdvice...
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Newfold Digital, a leading web technology provider that no one has ever heard of but owns a variety of well-known brands including HostGator, Network Solutions, and Bluehost, has acquired Yoast. Read...
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Debian 11, code-named Bullseye, was released today. If it's not already available on your favorite VM provider's panel, I suggest you own a thread on LowEndTalk and complain bitterly. Major new featu...
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Apple announced today that will begin scanning every photo, iMessage, and search you perform on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac in order to verify that Apple approves of the content you are viewing. Under...
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Unlike most hosting companies, DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) is a publicly-traded company and hence must file quarterly audited financial reports. While there are other big hosting companies that must fil...
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Sorry to harsh your summer buzz, but that Verisign announcement from back in February that you briefly grumbled about and then forgot because it was in the future is now relevant. As of September 1, y...
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Long-time community member @randvegeta has been sharing the story of his Lithium-powered datacenter UPS setup on LowEndTalk. He is the proprietor of MLNL.host, a cheap VPS provider we featured yester...
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Every month, LowEndBox puts a question in front of hosting industry leaders and LEB community providers, who are invited to comment and offer their perspective. Our goal is to stimulate discussion ar...
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SmallWeb announced Friday that they are being acquired by NexusBytes, effective August 1, 2021. Full details are available in an email sent to customers, which has also been posted on LowEndTalk. Mich...
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PayPal announced earlier this month that they are jacking up their fees...er, we meant to say, "making changes to published rates to better align pricing with the value their products and services pro...
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Rocky Linux offered their first official release (8.4) on June 21st and now providers are adding it as an option to their hosting platforms. If you're not familiar, Rocky Linux is CentOS Reborn. You...
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In a blog post this week, Cloudflare complained that Amazon AWS's egress fees are too high. According to CF's calculations, customers are paying: 80 times Amazon's costs in the US, Canada, and Europe...
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A user on LowEndTalk reported that shared hosting provider SmallWeb has emailed customers to report that their London shared hosting has suffered a "catastrophic data loss". "Dear friend, At 6:03PM UK...
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In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Rackspace announced Friday that they are laying off 10% of their workforce. "On July 21, 2021, the Company [Rackspace] committed to an inter...
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Comment Free For All: Hacking in the Movies
I once watched an episode of Law & Order with a friend who is an attorney. From the moment the action switched from the police to the prosecutors, he was tied up in knots, shouting at the screen a...
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