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Old 05-07-2008, 12:31 PM
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Smile Latest Hacker Havens: Free Hosting and Free Subdomains

Competition for internet advertising dollars has encouraged many companies to offer free subdomains to those who might provide enough content to produce a few clicks on the affiliate marketing banner ads and other advertisements generally required as part of these free services. Not a bad deal. But, there is a more ominous side to free hosting and free subdomain services. Free hosting services are becoming havens for hackers, spammers, cross-site scripting agents and other forms of malicious or criminal behavior.

On any given day I monitor 50-500 hack attempts made possible through these free service websites. I am not suggesting that the sites themselves are willing participants or are even aware their sites and servers are being used as tools by criminal cyber-gangs or malicious individuals. But I do believe they share some responsibility for scripts being placed on their servers.

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How many of you believe that companies that provide hosting should have some accountability when they allow malicious scripts to be stored and accessed for malicious purposes? I believe they have some responsibility and should have some liability.
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