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• Melbourne IT and 2nd Watch in cloud alliance

  Melbourne IT has struck an alliance with Amazon Web Services partner, 2nd Watch to offer cloud migration capabilities to organisations across Australia and New Zealand.
  

• Ad network compromise led to rogue page redirects on Reuters site

  Users who accessed some stories on the Reuters website Sunday were redirected to a message from hackers criticizing the news agency's coverage of Syria.

• Martin Mercer to leave Optus for Melbourne IT CEO role

  Optus strategy and fixed managing director Martin Mercer has been confirmed as the new CEO of Melbourne IT (ASX: MLB). He will start at the online services company in April 2014.

• <i>New York Times</i> site hack shifts attention to registry locks

  One way that owners of major websites can mitigate the risk of their domains being hijacked like The New York Times' site was on Tuesday is to apply what is known as a registry lock on the domain, security researchers say.

• Spear phishing led to DNS attack against the New York Times, others

  The cyberattack that resulted in nytimes.com and some other high-profile websites being inaccessible to a large number of users Tuesday started with a targeted phishing attack against a reseller for Melbourne IT, an Australian domain registrar and IT services company.

• New York Times site outage caused by attack on domain registrar, company says

  The New York Times blamed a prolonged website outage on Tuesday on a hacking attack at the company's Australia-based domain name registrar, Melbourne IT.

• Melbourne IT expects boom in defensive registrations when top-level domains arrive

  Melbourne IT said it expects a boost to business from defensive domain registering and other activity associated with new global top-level domains expected to go live later this year.

• Melbourne IT looks to sell business divisions amidst growing competition

  Web hosting company Melbourne IT has found itself in financial difficulty and is looking to sell off parts of the organisation.

• High Aussie dollar blamed for Melbourne IT's 11 per cent H1 revenue drop

  IT services company, Melbourne IT (ASX: MLB) has blamed an 11 per cent year-on-year decrease in revenue on the impact of the strong Australian dollar and soft market conditions in the US and Europe.

• IIIS: Melbourne IT's CTO lays out four-year roadmap

  Melbourne IT may be able to offer discounts to some enterprise and SMB customers as backup/restoration requirements change in the future, according to the hosting provider's chief technology officer.

• Melbourne IT warns of high AUD impact

  Melbourne IT (ASX: MLB) managing director, Theo Hnarakis, has warned that the rising Australian dollar and the [[artnid: 387651|20 June ICANN decision on domain liberalisation|new]] may affect the hosting company’s full year results.
  

• Reckon buys into Melbourne IT

  Reckon Limited (ASX:RKN) has bought nearly 5% of Melbourne IT (ASX:MLB) for $7.3 million, and said it considers the digital services company to be a potentially significant business partner

• Generic domain names pose cyber squatter risk

  Melbourne IT has advised of an increase in domain name 'cyber squatting', with large Australian financial companies and government agencies falling victim to phishing attempts as a result of the lack of foresight.

• Melbourne IT 2010 profit falls 4.5%

  Melbourne IT (ASX:MLB) saw its 2010 profit fall 4.5% due to transformation costs and forex losses, and expects these factors to also impact profit in 2011

• “Big data” to rise in 2011

  Among the continued maturation of Cloud computing and increasing competition between tablet manufacturers, 2011 is expected to see higher use of multi-terabyte datasets for business intelligence and analytics, otherwise known as “big data”.