Web hosting and cloud service provider, HostPapa, has acquired premium AI domain marketplace business BrandPa. 

The deal means BrandPa’s domain sellers will get better opportunities to showcase their premium domains to HostPapa’s existing web hosting customers and have more payment options and an increased level of support.

RESTON, Va., June 26, 2024–(BUSINESS WIRE)–OVHcloud US, a global cloud player and the European Cloud leader, announces new state-of-the-art dedicated Bare Metal Advance servers powered by the latest AMD EPYC™ 4004 Series processors. Introducing the third generation of Advance dedicated servers, OVHcloud continues to innovate not only at the CPU level but also at the network level thanks to an upgraded high-performance private network. Combined, those innovations give ADV-Gen3 Bare Metal servers the perfect performance and price ratio.

Leveraging brand new AMD EPYC 4004 Series processors on the AM5 platform, OVHcloud is the first provider to bring this level of advanced performance in accessible servers. Empowering a variety of customers, including SMB organizations looking to grow…

Slack has come under siege for using customer data to train its global AI models and generative AI add-on. Sure, requiring users to manually opt-out via email seems sneaky (isn’t avoiding email the whole point of Slack?), but the messaging app doesn’t bear all the responsibility here. The most popular workplace apps have all integrated AI into their products, including Slack AI, Jira AI-Powered Virtual Agent, and Gemini for Google Workspace. Anyone using technology today — especially for work — should assume their data will be used to train AI. That’s why it’s up to individuals and companies to avoid sharing sensitive data with third-party apps. Anything less is naive and risky.

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In its new research report, IT security manufacturer ESET has published a report that reveals the malicious activities of the hacker group “Ebury”. Its malware infected more than 400.000 Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD servers over the past 15 years.

In the past 18 months alone, 100.000 new victims have been added. In many cases, the Ebury operators were able to gain full access to large servers of Internet providers and well-known hosting providers. The activities of the Ebury group and its botnet over the years have included spreading spam, redirecting web traffic and stealing login credentials. In recent years, the hackers have also moved into credit card and cryptocurrency theft.

Ebury is versatile

Since at least 2009, Ebury has served as an OpenSSH backdoor and credential stealer….