Heartbleed: OpenSSL zero day vulnerability

In the morning of Tuesday, 8 April, we noticed that a bug had been reported in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160), called Heartbleed. This bug can only be found in third-party software. It enables hackers to read 64K of memory on a server that is running one of the OpenSSL versions affected by this issue.

The Netherlands – land of data centers

A guest blog by Michiel Steltman, Director of the DHPA (Dutch Hosting Provider Association). When you would ask an average EU citizen how the Internet works and where most websites and cloud services are hosted, most people will mention the U.S. as the main source of Internet technologies and services. And when you would ask […]

Gartner has positioned Leaseweb as a “Visionary”

At Leaseweb we believe that innovation drives everything we do – so to be recognized by Gartner as a “Visionary” in its June 2013 Magic Quadrant for European Managed Hosting* is something that makes everyone here happy. According to Gartner, Visionaries have an ‘early-mover’ advantage in providing cloud services as well as road maps that may […]

Leaseweb moves to its new European headquarters in Amsterdam

Work is fun – that’s the first thing that strikes our mind as we enter Leaseweb’s sprawling headquarters. Our new custom-designed 6-story office space opens its gates today. Standing tall and proud at the heart of Netherland’s thriving business center, this 6700 square-meter building houses our multi-cultural team of over 250 skilled employees, and much […]

Leaseweb: Second statement on former client MegaUpload

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 […]