This is the third installment of Leaseweb’s bi-annually Law Enforcement Transparency Report. It shows the number of demands we received in the prior six months. The figures below are for the period of July 1st – December 31st, 2013. Leaseweb believes that clients and other stakeholders deserve a clear articulation of Leaseweb’s obligations and responsibilities to […]
Leaseweb supports the idea of an open and safe Internet. As one of the world’s largest hosting and IT infrastructure companies, with approximately 3-4 % of all Internet traffic generated by Leaseweb customers, we believe that transparency on the issues we face and how we address those issues is very important. Therefore we are unveiling […]
Last week Kim Dotcom tweeted some statements claiming Leaseweb B.V. wiped data from 630 dedicated servers leased to former storage service client MegaUpload. Today we received a message from a TorrentFreak.com journalist stating MegaUpload’s legal team had approached them showing an email that would contradict Leaseweb B.V.’s version of the MegaUpload story. The legal team of MegaUpload says […]
On Twitter today we saw Kim Dotcom tweeting some statements saying Leaseweb wiped data from dedicated servers formerly in use by his storage service MegaUpload. I think this calls for a reaction.
Leaseweb supports the idea of an open and safe internet. As one of the world’s largest hosting and IT infrastructure companies, with approximately 3-4 % of all internet traffic generated by Leaseweb customers, we believe that transparency on the issues we face and how we address those issues is very important. Therefore, as the first […]
Leaseweb, a leading global hosting provider, is sponsoring StopBadware (www.stopbadware.org) to make the internet safer through the prevention, mitigation, and remediation of malware websites. Leaseweb will provide hosted server infrastructure, physical capacity and redundancy for the network and services, to support the growth of the global initiative.
If it is up to the Dutch Minister of Economics, Maxime Verhagen, net neutrality will be legally adopted in the Netherlands. This was stated in the Dutch Parliament during a debate yesterday regarding a new telecommunications law where the “net neutrality” amendment was embraced by most political parties. The amendment requires Internet providers and telecom […]
Cybercrime dominated the IT and national press in 2010 with many high profile incidents from global cyber attacks to international botnet busts. Stuxnet, which is a form of malware that targets industrial equipment appeared in June 2010, and changed the cyber security landscape as we know it. The Stuxnet incident provided a wakeup call to […]
Recently, I had the pleasure of hosting the administrator of the site Abuse.ch, the leading Zeus tracker site. Abuse.ch is one of a number of sites Leaseweb supports under its Community Outreach Project to make the internet a safer and better place. Leaseweb works with many not-for-profit organizations that monitor the web for malicious activity, […]
In its bid to make the internet safer for all users, Leaseweb has launched a Community Outreach Project offering free servers and bandwidth in support of organizations that monitor, identify and combat the sources of spam and cybercrime. As part of this program we have initially selected a number of organizations to benefit from this […]