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  1. EV1Servers Gains Sites In Wake of SCO Deal

    EV1Servers continued its strong growth in March, bucking speculation that its licensing deal with The SCO Group would prompt a mass exodus of customers. The dedicated server company had a net gain of 32,054 hostnames for the period ended March 10, continuing robust growth that has seen EV1Servers add more than 460,000 hostnames in the past 12 months.

    On March 1, EV1Servers becoming the first publicly identified company to have paid SCO to settle its disputed legal claims involving Linux. Our March data shows EV1Servers with a net gain of more than 28K hostnames on Linux, as calls for a boycott appear to have had little impact. About 37K hostnames moved from EV1Servers to other providers in the March tracking period - less than February's total of 44k and only slightly higher than the six-month average of 31k departures per month - while 32K hostnames migrated in from other providers. (more...)

    Posted by Rich Miller on 2nd April, 2004 in Hosting Share

  2. April 2004 Web Server Survey

    In the April 2004 survey we received responses from 49,750,568 sites.

    Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains August 1995 - April 2004

    Graph of market share for top servers across all domains, August 1995 - April 2004

    Top Developers
    Developer March 2004Percent April 2004Percent Change
    Apache3228058267.203332987966.99-0.21
    Microsoft1009976021.021069168321.490.47
    SunONE16515753.4416612293.34-0.10
    Zeus7627161.597633021.53-0.06

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    Posted by Netcraft on 1st April, 2004 in Web Server Survey Share

  3. New Phishing Scam Prompts Warnings

    Phishing attacks have reached new heights of sophistication with a Javascript-driven scam that detects the user's browser, convincingly spoofs the address bar, and displays fake HTML source code. The new attack prompted a warning last night from the Anti-Phishing Working Group, which said the new technique has "serious security implications for consumers."

    "This is one of the most sophisticated phishing attacks that we have yet detected," said Dave Jevans, chairman of the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). "Because the fake Address bar remains installed even after you leave the phisher's site, there is a possibility that a phisher could use this technique to secretly track every web site that you visit."

    The new technique targets Citibank, commencing with e-mails bearing the subject "Verify your E-mail with Citibank." The IP address for the spoofed page (http://69.56.202.82) is part of a block of addresses assigned to The Planet, a large hosting provider in Dallas, and was still active as of yesterday.

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    Posted by Rich Miller on 1st April, 2004 in Security Share

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