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In the last half of 2009, Romania has climbed one place compared to early last year in the ranking of the best internet connections. Galati currently occupies 9th place in the top cities in Europe with the best web connection. World ranking is led by South Korea, which has an average of 14.6 Mbps connection. Japan and Hong Kong have an average speed of 7.9, 7.6 Mbps respectively, while Romania ranks fourth position with 6.2 Mbps. Global average Internet connection speed is 1.7 Mbps, shows the latest global report prepared by Akamai. These positions in ranking are occupied by European countries: Sweden (5 top article.7 Mbps), Ireland (5.3), Netherlands (5.2), Switzerland (5), Denmark (4.8) and Czech (4.8 ). United States occupies only the 18th position with an average of 3.9 Mbps. Unfortunately Romania cute and ranking countries where they have their origin most attacks: 3.2% of all attacks launched worldwide originate in our country. Leaders in Russia are found (13% of all attacks), Brazil (8.6%) and USA (6.9%).

A Romanian hacker has disclosed an SQL injection vulnerability on a US Army website that could lead to a full database compromise. According to a report from Softpedia, a website used to provide information about military housing facilities to soldiers, called Army Housing OneStop, was found to be storing passwords in plain text — a major security oversight. A compromised AHOS website could provide an intruder access to some 76 databases on the server, some containing confidential information on worldwide Army installations. The AHOS has since been taken offline. Information Week reported in May 2009 that a Turkish hacker infiltrated two sensitive US Army servers. One was located at the McAlester Ammunition Plant in McAlester, Oklahoma, and the other in Winchester, Virginia at the US Army Corps of Engineers’ Transatlantic Center.

As little as 14 days from undergoing the final stage in becoming an Act of Parliament, a Canadian bill promising to cut down on the abusive email marketing practices, known as spam, is being put on hold as the government suspends Parliament until March. According to a report from itbusiness.ca, bill C-27, also known as the Electronic Commerce Protection Act, was approaching senate review before Parliament was suspended by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who asked the Governor General to prorogue (or postpone) Parliament on December 30. Newspaper The Toronto Star notes that prorogation is not uncommon in Canada, and has been used by governments past such as in 2003, when PM Jean Chretien prorogued Parliament partly to delay the release of an auditor’s report on a sponsorship scandal, among other reasons. The Star notes that Harper’s prorogation at the end of last month was an attempt to avoid the opposition’s questions, particularly about the Afghan detainee issue. Caught in the crossfire, however, are several dozen bills that, unless unanimous voted through in the House of Commons, have to start the legislation process over again. The Electronic Commerce Protection Act, which needs to be reviewed by a Senate committee before Parliament to receive Royal Assent and become law, and this work has become jeopardized. With Parliament expected to resume March 3, it is unclear when or if this anti-spam legislation will become operational.

Getting a website for a business, family or ideas is a huge step. Your are adding a new dimension to your life, and this must be done with great thought. All of us so much time on the look of the website, not that it is not important people often overlook the most important part- hosting. The internet is a super shoppe for dedicated servers. It is like going in to WalMart without a shopping list, and getting ripped off. There are many factors that need to be considered before buying a dedicated server, and you need to identify them. Here we help you identify these factors and accost you with how these factors affect your choice. 1. Platform: Unix VS NT? Each platform has their rabid fans, and we are not here to discuss which one is superior. This choice depends your motif and purpose of your website. So, if you’re putting up a basic site with standard HTML, without any server side scripting or database support, then you may choose Unix or NT as both options would be ideal. So what really affects this choice? You choice is weaned by your site’s purpose. If your website is going to evolve in to a large website with Databases or ASP, then we think the NT hosting would be the best choice. If your website, is just a simple website without above mentioned characteristics then Unix would be also suited. 2. Space VS Traffic? Space and traffic are the most dynamic factors as they affect Web Hosts rates. In a majority of cases, sites require only few megabytes of space and thus the amount of traffic should be well compensated in the space rate. Hence, if your website falls in to this category then we advise you not to get flustered by the big numbers. On the other hand, if your website is several hundred pages and is going to have a thousand plus hits a day, then you must give some thought to this factor and choose the wisest option. We say you go with traffic since it is an unpredictable element and not give the Web Host’s to penalize you for exceeding the limits. This is also true if your simple website is made of lot of Flash or Multimedia elements. 3. Email: Limited Vs Unlimited? The most underestimated factor of Dedicated Hosting Packages and we say as emails are the lifelines of online businesses. Make sure that when you choose a package it has enough email accounts for your business and if your business has potential we suggest you look for the unlimited package. So that way hosts don’t have a chance to rip you off by charging an extra few bucks for every new account. We cannot emphasize the importance of this factor because quite often people shift web hosts due to the email factor, and this is a very arduous experience. We hope you don’t get burned in this factor.