Lansing’s Liquid Web Hires Branding Consultant As VP Innovation
LANSING — The managed services provider Liquid Web LLC has announced the hiring of Chris Lema as vice president of products and innovations.
Lema is a product and branding consultant with a 20-year career in the technology field. Previously, Lema was vice president of software development at Petoskey-based Emphasys Computer Solutions, and was CTO and chief strategist at the Denver-based IT services firm Crowd Favorite.
Most recently, Lema was an independent industry consultant focused on the WordPress community, sharing his insights via a daily blog, ebooks, public speaking and product strategy.
At Liquid Web, Lema will develop products to complement the company's traditional managed hosting suite of product offerings as well as integration with its recent Cloud Sites purchase from Rackspace. His addition demonstrates the company's commitment to its growing WordPress community, which currently supports more than 250,000 mission critical WordPress sites, and onboards, on average, one site every hour of every day.
In a press release, Liquid Web CTO Joe Osterling said Lema's "experience working with our target customers, web-dependent SMBs and the creators who serve them, will accelerate our quest to build more innovative products for this underserved community. His audience expertise combined with his knowledge of CMS and e-commerce technology platforms means simple, scalable solutions that make life easier for designers, developers, agencies and SMBs."
Chris Lema And Lema added: "Liquid Web is a place that can offer me an opportunity to leverage all my talents and experience, while also being a place where I can stretch, grow and keep innovating. I normally say most hosting companies only have one product – hosting – and that's no place for a product guy. Liquid Web is different and I'm looking forward to aligning our visions for the web-hosting community."
Liquid Web is a $100 million-revenue hosting provider serving 30,000 customers in 150 countries. It is owned by Madison Dearborn Partners LLC, a Chicago private equity firm. More at http://www.liquidweb.com.
Source: Lansing's Liquid Web Hires Branding Consultant As VP Innovation
Rackspace Hosting Inc. (RAX) Shares Sold by Arizona State Retirement System
Other hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of the company. First Trust Advisors LP boosted its position in Rackspace Hosting by 1.7% in the third quarter. First Trust Advisors LP now owns 2,748,149 shares of the hosting company's stock worth $87,089,000 after buying an additional 46,200 shares in the last quarter. Jennison Associates LLC acquired a new position in Rackspace Hosting during the third quarter worth approximately $32,643,000. Advance Capital I Inc. acquired a new position in Rackspace Hosting during the third quarter worth approximately $215,000. Mutual of America Capital Management LLC boosted its position in Rackspace Hosting by 5.8% in the third quarter. Mutual of America Capital Management LLC now owns 82,563 shares of the hosting company's stock worth $2,616,000 after buying an additional 4,498 shares in the last quarter. Finally, LMR Partners LLP acquired a new position in Rackspace Hosting during the third quarter worth approximat ely $3,169,000. 77.98% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Rackspace Hosting Inc. (NYSE:RAX) remained flat at $31.99 during trading on Friday. Rackspace Hosting Inc. has a 52-week low of $15.05 and a 52-week high of $31.99. The company has a 50 day moving average price of $31.95 and a 200 day moving average price of $27.97.
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A number of research analysts recently commented on RAX shares. Zacks Investment Research cut Rackspace Hosting from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating in a report on Wednesday, October 12th. Needham & Company LLC reissued a "hold" rating on shares of Rackspace Hosting in a research report on Friday, August 26th. Jefferies Group boosted their target price on Rackspace Hosting from $23.00 to $32.00 and gave the company a "hold" rating in a research report on Monday, August 29th. JMP Securities lowered Rackspace Hosting from an "outperform" rating to a "market perform" rating in a research report on Friday, August 26th. Finally, Raymond James Financial Inc. lowered Rackspace Hosting from a "market perform" rating to an "underperform" rating and set a $32.00 target price on the stock. in a research report on Tuesday, August 30th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, eighteen have given a hold rating and five have assigned a buy rating to the stock. The stock currently has an average rating of "Hold" and a consensus price target of $28.00.
In other news, COO Mark Roenigk sold 5,000 shares of Rackspace Hosting stock in a transaction dated Monday, October 17th. The shares were sold at an average price of $31.78, for a total value of $158,900.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief operating officer now directly owns 174,697 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $5,551,870.66. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. 15.50% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.
About Rackspace Hosting
Rackspace Hosting, Inc (Rackspace) operates in the managed cloud segment of the business information technology (IT) market. The Company offers a portfolio of integrated IT solutions for common business needs. The Company offers services for certain applications, including e-commerce and Web content management sites, business-productivity applications, such as e-mail and collaboration, and data stores.
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Krebs on Security
In what's being billed as an unprecedented global law enforcement response to cybercrime, federal investigators in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe today say they've dismantled a sprawling cybercrime machine known as "Avalanche" — a distributed, cloud-hosting network that for the past seven years has been rented out to fraudsters for use in launching countless malware and phishing attacks.
The global distribution of servers used in the Avalanche crime machine. Source: Shadowserver.org
According to Europol, the action was the result of a four-year joint investigation between Europol, Eurojust the FBI and authorities in the U.K. and Germany that culminated on Nov. 30, 2016 with the arrest of five individuals, the seizure of 39 Web servers, and the sidelining of more than 830,000 web domains used in the scheme.
Built as a criminal cloud-hosting environment that was rented out to scammers, spammers other ne'er-do-wells, Avalanche has been a major source of cybercrime for years. In 2009, when investigators say the fraud network first opened for business, Avalanche was responsible for funneling roughly two-thirds of all phishing attacks aimed at stealing usernames and passwords for bank and e-commerce sites. By 2011, Avalanche was being heavily used by crooks to deploy banking Trojans.
The U.K.'s National Crime Agency (NCA), says the more recent Avalanche fraud network comprised up to 600 servers worldwide and was used to host as many as 800,000 web domains at a time.
"Cyber criminals rented the servers and through them launched and managed digital fraud campaigns, sending emails in bulk to infect computers with malware, ransomware and other malicious software that would steal users' bank details and other personal data," the NCA said in a statement released today on the takedown. The criminals used the stolen information for fraud or extortion. At its peak 17 different types of malware were hosted by the network, including major strains with names such as goznym, urlzone, pandabanker and loosemailsniffer.At least 500,000 computers around the world were infected and controlled by the Avalanche system on any given day."
The Avalanche network was especially resilient because it relied on a hosting method known as fast-flux, a kind of round-robin technique that lets botnets hide phishing and malware delivery sites behind an ever-changing network of compromised systems acting as proxies.
"The complex setup of the Avalanche network was popular amongst cybercriminals, because of the double fast flux technique offering enhanced resilience to takedowns and law enforcement action," Europol said in its statement.
It's worth noting here that Avalanche has for many years been heavily favored by crime gangs to deploy Zeus and SpyEye malware variants involved in cleaning out bank accounts for a large number of small to mid-sized businesses. These attacks relied heavily on so-called "money mules," people willingly or unwittingly recruited into helping fraudsters launder stolen funds.
At the time of the takedown, the Avalanche cybercrime infrastructure spanned more than 180 countries, according to The Shadowserver Foundation, a nonprofit group that helped authorities gain control over the Avalanche domains. Read more on Shadowserver's role in this effort here.
The Avalanche crime infrastructure. Image: Europol
Tags: Avalanche, double fast-flux, Eurojust, Europol, fbi, NCA, Shadowserver Foundation, U.K. National Crime Agency
Source: Krebs on Security
Website down!!!!
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Also, note that we do not provide Jetpack support https://jetpack.com/support/ for sites linked to wordpress.COM accounts with the Jetpack plugin so they display on the My Sites wordpress.com account page.
Some Jetpack solutions are here http://jetpack.com/support/
Others are in the Jetpack support forum at WordPress.orghttp://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jetpack
However, if help cannot be found at either one then they can file a Jetpack support ticket here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/?jetpack=needs-service
WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
As you are referring to a site that is not hosted here, if you don't have a username account at WordPress.ORG account, then click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right-hand corner of the page that opens, https://wordpress.org/support/register.php so you can post to the support forums there.Resetting your WordPress.ORG password http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_PasswordWordPress.org support docs are at https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_PageSee also https://apps.wordpress.org/support/
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WordPress Will Only Recommend Hosting Companies Offering SSL by Default in 2017
In October, Let's Encrypt was managing more than 10 million active SSL certificates. That number doubled to 20 million in November as large providers continue to partner with the organization to manage their customers' certificates.
In 2014, Google announced that HTTPS is a ranking factor. Earlier this year, the Google Chrome security team announced that Chrome 56 will mark HTTP sites that transmit passwords or credit cards as insecure.
In 2017, managed WordPress hosting companies will have one more reason to enable SSL by default for new accounts. In a post on the WordPress.org blog, Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of the open source WordPress project, explains what the project is going to do to encourage HTTPS by default across the web.
"Early in 2017, we will only promote hosting partners that provide a SSL certificate by default in their accounts," Mullenweg said.
"Later we will begin to assess which features, such as API authentication, would benefit the most from SSL and make them only enabled when SSL is there."
Unrelated to SSL, Mullenweg also commented on the significant performance improvements in PHP7 and will consider whether hosting partners use PHP7 by default for new accounts in 2017.
These moves are a continued effort by Mullenweg to secure and encrypt as much of the web as possible. Earlier this year, WordPress.com encrypted all of its sites using Let's Encrypt.
Let's Encrypt is an initiative which aims to encrypt 100% of the web by making trusted certificates available to everyone at no cost. It's a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and recently launched a crowdfunding campaign to cover the cost of one month of operations totaling $200K.
Josh Aas, ISRG Executive Director, explains the reasons behind the crowdfunding campaign, "First, there is a gap between the funds we've raised and what we need for next year," Aas said.
"Second, we believe individual supporters from our community can come to represent a significant diversification of our annual revenue sources, in addition to corporate sponsorship and grants."
To learn more about the campaign and to contribute, visit Let's Encrypt's Indiegogo page.
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