HostGee.Com a leading Web Hosting provider of internet services and online marketing solutions for small and large-sized businesses, today is announcing the launch of its new professional and advertising services brand, Tasveeq.Com in Saudi Arabia.

The Tasveeq.com brand is focused on the needs of small and large business customers in Saudi Arabia. The goal of the brand is to provide a wide range of internet-focused solutions to existing hosting customers as well as a lead offering to new customers. Due to strong customer demand, the company has been provide services includes a Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Pay Per Click Management ( PPC ), Search Optimized Web design , Social Media Marketing, Conversion Optimization and Local Maps Optimization as well offering website development services. The company intends to provide additional value-add solutions through this brand over time.

“The new Tasveeq.com brand will allow us to provide high value services to our customers. This is part of our previously announced strategy to focus our energy and resources on the Saudi Arabia market with specific emphasis on small to large-sized business customers,” said Shafiq Ur Rehman, President & CEO. “We believe these types of services will help our customers obtain new customers of their own and therefore command a premium selling price. Internet-based customer acquisition technologies are becoming more complex by the year and are quickly exceeding the typical skill-sets and internal resources of an average SMB. A traditional website is now just a small piece of what it takes to have a leading edge internet presence and marketing machine. In the past year some of our competitors have partially tapped the demand in this space and the investment community has responded favorably. We believe the Tasveeq.com brand can be a high growth area for our company.”

About Tasveeq.com
Tasveeq.com offers Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Pay Per Click Management ( PPC), Search Optimized Web design , Social Media Marketing, Conversion Optimization and Local Maps Optimization as well offering website development services in Saudi Arabia.

About HostGee.Com
Saudi Arabia Web Hosting, VPS Hosting, Dedicated Servers Company, colocation, SaaS hosting, Web design and online marketing services to over 1 Hundred Thousand Web sites and 250,000 customers worldwide. It operates over 250,191 square feet of state-of-the-art data centers that reduce the complexity and cost of Web-based technologies for small businesses and large enterprises. Founded in 2009, HostGee is one of the worlds largest Web hosting companies with a direct presence in 3 countries, 3 worldwide operation centers and more than 150 employees.

Horizon, a Dallas-based data company has been selected to provide the U.S. Federal government with cloud solutions, the company announced on Tuesday.

By having been selected, Horizon receives “ATO” approval (Authority to operate).

The selection arrives after an 8-month review process. Before being approved, the government had to make sure that Horizon could meet security standards. Ensuring proper disaster recovery also played an important part in the review process.

In a press release concerning the matter, the company’s CEO stated, “With this ATO, Horizon’s purpose built cloud is officially open for government business, and Horizon and EyakTek are ready to take the lead in helping federal agencies save money by accessing the incredible potential of our highly secure, cloud-based services.”

Horizon began in 2000 and specializes in managed services, including cloud computing and colocation. According to its site, Horizon’s clients have included the Hunt Capital Group and the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

You can view the entire press release here.

In recent years, the U.S. government has adopted a cloud-first policy. In April, the government approved cloud-based Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS) by Microsoft for use by federal employees.

The U.S. government is also currently in the process of consolidating its federal data centers and plans to shut down 800 within the next four years. In April, a study by IT research group Meritalk estimated that the government could save nearly eighteen billion dollars from the closures.

Go Daddy Group, Inc., the parent company for GoDaddy.com has sold a majority stake to a group of private equity firms for an estimated $2.5 billion. As reported last week, the group is led by KKR & Co., Silver Lake Technology Crossover Ventures and will assume all of Go Daddy Inc.’s debt as well as its assets.

As the largest domain registrar in the world, GoDaddy boasts over 9.4 million customers and manages more than 48 million domain names. Despite this, the company has reported consecutive annual losses with growth only during the latest fiscal year.

For at least the time being, CEO Robert Parsons will remain in that position, and has stated the company’s plans to expand its offerings by increasing its international presence and moving its hosting services into the cloud-based services. Parsons founded the company in 1997 and in 2006 failed in his attempt to go public, citing poor market conditions when withdrawing its IPO.

Whether this acquisition is considered an investment or a purchase, Parsons is reported to remain GoDaddy’s largest single shareholder while the new private equity group becomes the company’s majority investors.

Silver Lake has a great track record of flipping and growing Internet companies, with the sale of Skype Global for $8.5 billion to Microsoft Corporation, after purchasing it from EBay two years ago for only $2 billion. KKR and Silver Lake are familiar partners with their 2005 group investment of Avago Technologies, while TCV leads a group of firms that has invested a reported $135 million in Facebook. Silver Lake and TCV are co-investors in the leading daily deal site Groupon and the social-gaming company Zynga.

A massive botnet has been discovered by a researcher at Kaspersky lab. Named TDL-4, the botnet is said to have already affected nearly four and a half millions computers.

On Securelist.com, Kaspersky writes, “The malware detected by Kaspersky Anti-Virus as TDSS is the most sophisticated threat today. TDSS uses a range of methods to evade signature, heuristic, and proactive detection, and uses encryption to facilitate communication between its bots and the botnet command and control center.”

The first version of TDL appeared in 2008. However, the latest version of TDL is said to be the most advanced and has a “powerful rootkit component.” Securelist states that this “allows it to conceal the presence of any other types of malware in the system.”

Another feature that makes TDL so dangerous is that it contains a component that acts as its own antivirus, thus making it secure from other malicious software.

Botnet viruses load onto multiple computer systems, thus creating networks of infected computers. The botnet’s operators can then access the infected systems remotely. Botnets give the operators the ability to use the compromised systems to steal data, launch attacks on other systems, spread spam, and conduct other malicious actions.

Most recently in April, federal investigators in the United States worked to end a botnet known as Coreflood. Coreflood is thought to have existed for nearly 10 years, infecting around 2 million personal computers. While it’s unknown how much victims of Coreflood lost, some analysts believe that the bot’s operators could have stolen money that amounted in the hundreds of thousands.

Los Angeles, CA – June 15th, 2011 – PacificHost, a leading provider of Linux-based, cPanel hosting solutions, announced earlier today a strategic move to the FastFiber Network™ owned and managed by dedicated hosting provider ServerBeach and its parents company, PEER 1 Hosting. The move intends to increase PacificHost’s position in the market and expand for future growth.

PacificHost recently moved all of its outsourced dedicated hosting to ServerBeach in order to provide a faster and more stable online hosting platform for it’s customers–in addition to furthering the company’s plans to offer cloud hosting services in the near future. This move included a migration of all of PacificHost’s shared, reseller and VPS hosting solutions to ServerBeach.

“Our previous outsourced hosting provider was unable to provide us with the level of service we needed to meet our rapid rate of growth”, said Thomas Perry, president and CEO of PacificHost. “Many of our international clients also expected faster loading times, particularly with the vast amount of video streaming we perform. This move to ServerBeach is essential to continue improving the stability and speed of our platform to grow into the cloud hosting market.”

About PacificHost
Originally formed in 1999, PacificHost provides high quality shared and reseller hosting solutions to clients worldwide. Hosting includes unique features such as built-in Cloud Software, Video Streaming Software such as FFmpeg, Remote R1soft Backups, LiteSpeed and more.
For more information, please see http://www.pacifichost.com

About ServerBeach
ServerBeach, a division of PEER 1 Hosting, offers dedicated servers built By Geeks, For Geeks™. With solid hardware, server automation tools and a 10Gb FastFiber Network, ServerBeach provides Linux and Microsoft users with a low-cost dedicated server, complete with a full suite of developer management tools.
For more information, please see http://www.serverbeach.com

Just days after five exhibitors claimed their spots as exhibitors for cPanel Conference 2011, three more exhibitors have signed up. Resell.biz, CentOS, and CloudLinux have all enlisted for Automation Bootcamp.

“The cPanel Conference has quickly grown wheels and is now moving at the speed of light,” cPanel Vice President of Operations Aaron Phillips said. “In fact, we’re preparing for a full exhibitor sell out before HostingCon 2011.”

Phillips also said he expects attendee registration to sell out shortly after HostingCon 2011 concludes in August.

Ping! Zine Web Hosting Magazine, Linux Journal and The Web Host Industry Review (TheWHIR) join the growing presence of media sponsors at cPanel Conference.

This year’s conference is rapidly growing with new attendees and exhibitors as well as guests and friends from previous years.

“We are excited to see some familiar faces and are equally excited to see some of the new faces such as Linux Journal,” Phillips said.

Additional Exhibitor Information

Resell.biz provides low-cost domain registration and domain management services for thousands of resellers worldwide. They have provided web hosting and internet services to customers and businesses since 1998. For more information, please visit http://www.resell.biz.

CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. Please visit http://centos.org for more information about.

CloudLinux provides hosting companies and data centers with the only commercially supported Linux Operating System (OS) optimized for their needs. The new technology behind CloudLinux has been proven to increase density, stability, and performance, helping customers realize reduced operating costs and increased profitability. For more information, please visit http://www.cloudlinux.com.

About cPanel:

Since 1997, cPanel has been a leading innovator and developer of control panel software for the web hosting industry. cPanel builds software that allows web host professionals to transform standalone servers into fully automated point-and-click web hosting platforms. cPanel licensed software allows owners of servers and websites, along with resellers and developers, to optimize their technical resources and replace tedious shell-oriented tasks with dynamic, intuitive web- based interfaces.

About cPanel Conference:

cPanel Conference is an annual technical and training conference hosted by cPanel. October 2011 will mark the sixth anniversary of the conference which has seen marked growth over that time span. cPanel Conference brings together a unique crowd of technical decision makers, executives and product managers. cPanel will host cPanel Conference 2011 – Automation Bootcamp in Austin, Texas, October 10-12, 2011.

RegistryPro, registry operator of .PRO, the Internet extension for the professional community announced today that it would serve as an official sponsor of the 41st ICANN International Meeting. The meeting, which will be held in Singapore from June 19th – 24th, marks RegistryPro’s seventh International Meeting sponsorship.

“RegistryPro is excited to continue our support of ICANN’s International Meetings,” said Karim Jiwani, newly appointed CEO of RegistryPro. “We have a lot of exciting news to share with the community about our TLD’s and our company. We would like to invite everyone in attendance to stop by booth #4 to find out more about what is happening with RegistryPro and the .PRO TLD.”

Thanks to record performance in 2010 and continued expansion in 2011, .PRO has firmly established itself as a key player in the domain name industry. “In 2010, .PRO achieved 12 consecutive months of growth and ranked among the top performers in the domain name space”, said Matt Buckland, Director of Operations for RegistryPro. “Throughout 2011, .PRO has continued aggressively expanding by developing our registrar base and attracting a dedicated end-user community.”

Buckland continued, “As the domain name landscape continues to diversify .PRO stands ready to help business, service professionals, and organizations maintain and establish a truly unique, ‘professional’ on-line identity.”

Visitors to ICANN 41 who would like to learn more about RegistryPro or meet with the RegistryPro Team can stop by booth #4 in the Raffles Ballroom Foyer.

For more information on RegistryPro, please visit: http://registry.pro/

About .PRO, The Internet for Professionals

Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, RegistryPro is the ICANN-designated operator of the .PRO TLD.

Since launching in 2004, .PRO has become an important tool for businesses, organizations and individuals in building trusted relationships throughout the world. In many languages, “pro” is synonymous with dedication, skill, and vision – the .PRO name allows people to capture that distinctive character. Whether developing a brand, refining an identity, or promoting a specialty, .PRO offers every business and professional the opportunity to enhance their image by adding a powerful, easy-to-identify name to their online presence and web-based products.

Autorun Malware is down, this according to a report posted online by the Malware Protection Center at Microsoft.

The report focuses on malware that takes advantage of the Windows component “Autorun.”

However, in recent months, the company reports the number of infections has dropped significantly.

Microsoft attributes the drop to updates they’ve offered on Windows versions of XP and Vista.

The report states, “In comparison to the three months prior to the update, we saw 1.3 million fewer infections on Windows Vista and XP from February to May.”

Meanwhile, Microsoft expects the number of infections to continue to drop.

The hacking group known as Lulz Security is at it again, claiming responsibility for breaching the CIA’s website (cia.gov).

The breach resulted in several hours of downtime, but the site is now back up and running.

In a statement left on their Twitter page late Wednesday, the group said, “WikiLeaks supporters, LulzSec, take down CIA… who has task force into WikiLeaks.”

It remains unclear as to if the hackers were able to make away with any sensitive information.

CNN reported that a CIA spokesman said they’re looking into it.

Meanwhile, Reuters has reported that a second breach of the U.S. Senate’s site has occurred. LulzSec had taken responsibility for the initial breach.

Besides hacking the senate site, the group has become famous in recent months for hacking such sites as PBS, Sony, Nintendo, and an FBI-affiliate. The group typically uses DDoS attacks.

LulzSec usually claims that it does the hacks for laughs. However,the group has been motivated in the past by a PBS documentary covering WikiLeaks and the U.S. government’s declaration that some cyber attacks could be considered attacks of war.

JNBridge (www.jnbridge.com), a provider of Java and .NET interoperability tools for software developers, announced on Wednesday it has released JNBridgePro 6.0.

The new version of the software enables developers to access both .NET-based and Java-based cloud services and APIs from ground or cloud-based clients written in the other platform, and to develop cloud-based services and APIs that incorporate both Java and .NET-based components.

JNBridgePro connects Java and .NET Framework-based components and applications together with Visual Studio and Eclipse plug-ins that simplify cross-platform interoperability.

This latest version extends this interoperability to the cloud, allowing developers to build and distribute integrated applications anywhere.

This includes intra-cloud, where both platforms reside in the same cloud, either in the same or in different instances, inter-cloud, where the instances belong to different clouds, and ground-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground, where the interoperability is between a cloud instance and an application running on the ground.

“JNBridge’s vision of cloud interoperability is any object or API, on any platform, in any language, anywhere,” said Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge. “JNBridgePro 6.0 will allow enterprises to build applications that access any API, or build rich APIs that are accessible to the other side, no matter where they reside, and whether or not they are services enabled.”

In addition to the new interoperability capabilities, JNBridge has simplified and extended the licensing options.

The single edition of JNBridgePro 6.0 now includes all the functions of the previous standard and enterprise editions.

There is also a new annual licensing option in addition to perpetual, which supports licensing of virtual machines and cloud instances.