Web Hosting News – TORONTO – Tucows Inc. (NYSE AMEX:TCX) (TSX:TC), a global provider of domain names, email and other Internet services, announced today that its wholesale Internet services division, OpenSRS, has added Comodo® and Trustwave® Internet security products to the OpenSRS Trust Service. The addition of these two brands further extends and enhances the choice in trust and security products available to its over 11,000 resellers worldwide.

Along with adding new providers, OpenSRS also announced lower wholesale pricing on a number of GeoTrust® and thawte® brand SSL Digital Certificates. This cost decrease allows OpenSRS Resellers to better compete on price in an evolving market for online security and trust.

“We’re pleased to bring both Trustwave and Comodo security products to our resellers,” said Adam Eisner, Director of OpenSRS Product Management. “Both Comodo and Trustwave have excellent reputations within the industry and we expect that these new products, along with more competitive pricing for select GeoTrust and thawte products, will be very well received by our resellers.”

“Trustwave is excited to launch this partnership with OpenSRS,” said Brian Trzupek, Trustwave Vice President of Managed Identity and SSL. “OpenSRS has an amazing presence in online services and we believe that the strength and affordability of our SSL offerings will open up new channels for OpenSRS resellers to offer highly trusted products from a leading brand in online security.”

“We are delighted that Comodo SSL certificates will now be included in the OpenSRS Trust Service,” said James Langman, Comodo vice president business development. “With millions of Internet users worldwide recognizing the Comodo brand as a trusted security provider and our SSL products considered among the industry’s best in terms of price versus features, Comodo SSL will serve to further strengthen OpenSRS Trust Service.”

The addition of Comodo and Trustwave brings the total number of OpenSRS Trust Service vendors to five, joining existing providers VeriSign, GeoTrust and thawte. OpenSRS began offering GeoTrust SSL products in 2002, and added VeriSign and thawte products in 2009.

OpenSRS Trust Service is a part of a suite of wholesale services offered by OpenSRS. Resellers can also sell and manage domain names, hosted email and website publishing services through the OpenSRS platform.

About Tucows
Tucows is a global Internet services company. OpenSRS manages over ten million domain names and millions of email boxes through a reseller network of over 11,000 web hosts and ISPs. Hover is the easiest way for individuals and small businesses to manage their domain names and email addresses. YummyNames owns premium domain names that generate revenue through advertising or resale. Butterscotch.com is an online video network building on the foundation of Tucows.com.

About Comodo
Comodo® is a leading brand in Internet security. With US Headquarters in New Jersey and global resources in UK, China, India, Ukraine, and Romania, Comodo provides businesses and consumers worldwide with security and trust services, including digital certificates, PCI scanning, desktop security, and remote PC support. Securing online transactions for over 200,000 businesses, and with more than 35 million desktop security software installations, including an award-winning firewall and antivirus software, Comodo is Creating Trust Online®.

About Trustwave
Trustwave is the leading provider of on-demand and subscription-based information security and payment card industry compliance management solutions to businesses and government entities throughout the world. For organizations faced with today’s challenging data security and compliance environment, Trustwave provides a unique approach with comprehensive solutions that include its flagship TrustKeeper® compliance management software and other proprietary security solutions including EV SSL certificates and secure digital certificates. Trustwave has helped thousands of organizations–ranging from Fortune 500 businesses and large financial institutions to small and medium-sized retailers-manage compliance and secure their network infrastructure, data communications and critical information assets. Trustwave is headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.

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Website Hosting News – Boston, MA – GlobalSign, one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA), and specialists in SSL security, today announced that it has shown the largest actual increase in the number of SSL Certificates active for the month of February. Enjoying a monthly growth of almost 2000 new secure sites, GlobalSign’s highly trusted SSL technology is being adopted at a faster rate than the other leading SSL Providers Symantec (comprising of its four SSL brands – VeriSign, GeoTrust, thawte and RapidSSL), as well as GoDaddy and Comodo, who all showed a decrease in number of secured sites for the same period.

Between 2008 and 2009 the number of sites secured by GlobalSign more than doubled and subsequent years have seen strong growth rates of 64% and 59% respectively – higher than other major players. These statistics clearly indicate that rising numbers of website owners are realizing the importance of using SSL technology, and that more existing certificate users are deciding to switch from their current vendor to take advantage of GlobalSign’s trusted brand, future-proof SSL security and advanced security features.


“February was an unusually interesting month for SSL in the media – with actor and high profile tweeter Ashton Kutcher’s Twitter account being hacked, most likely with a Firesheep type traffic sniffer. The hacker left a stark message that Mr. Kutcher should be using the SSL secured versions of such social media sites. With SSL in the headlines, GlobalSign is delighted to see such growth in the deployments of our SSL technology which will mitigate the problem of such traffic sniffers,” said Steve Waite, Chief Marketing Officer, GlobalSign. “Not only are the number of GlobalSign SSL Certificates implemented on websites increasing, but we are now clearly being considered as a trusted and alternative security provider to the likes of VeriSign [now Symantec].”

In coming months GlobalSign’s position in the SSL market is expected to continue to accelerate, as a result of both recent and upcoming expansions into new markets, providing local language websites and support for a number of countries, together with the launch of new product features and enhancements, such as malware monitoring services and fully automated SSL provisioning. As GlobalSign continues to develop its products and services to fully serve the needs of its retail, enterprise and channel customers, these exciting developments only help strengthen the GlobalSign brand and its position in the global SSL Market.

For more information about GlobalSign and its range of Digital Certificate Solutions, please visit www.globalsign.com/ssl

About GMO GlobalSign
Established in 1996 and as a WebTrust accredited public certificate authority, GlobalSign offers publicly trusted SSL Certificates, EV SSL, Managed SSL Services, S/MIME email security and Code Signing for use on all platforms including mobile devices. Its Trusted Root solution uses the widely embedded GlobalSign Root CA certificates to provide immediate PKI trust forMicrosoft Certificate Services and internal PKI, eliminating the costs of using untrusted Root Certificates. Its partnership with Adobe to provide Certified Document Services (CDS) enables secure digitally signed PDF documents, certified transcripts and e-invoices.  These core Digital Certificate solutions allow its thousands of authenticated customers to conduct secure online transactions, data transfer, distribution of tamper-proof code, and protection of online identities for secure email and access control.  The company has a history of innovation within the online security industry and has offices in the US, UK, Belgium, Japan, and China.

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Hosting News – Jersey City, NJ - Comodo offers a free Domain Name Service (DNS) for Internet users. The advantages to using Comodo’s secure DNS include security, speed, and ease of use.

A DNS is like a phonebook for a computer. When a person wants to look up a phone number, he or she looks in the phone directory for the other party’s name, which corresponds with a number that a telephone can connect to. A DNS works the same way; when a person types a website address such as www.comodo.com, into a browser’s search bar, the computer contacts a Domain Name Server. The DNS identifies the IP address that corresponds to the domain name, like a telephone user looking up a telephone number in the directory. The DNS server then replies to the user’s browser, informing it of the IP address, and the browser duly connects.


For most Internet users, the DNS server they use is furnished by their Internet Service Provider. This process of matching human-readable domain names to machine-understandable IP addresses is part of the fabric of the Internet. It happens millions of times per day.

Rarely, the DNS database can be corrupted with incorrect IP addresses, the way a telephone directory might be printed with incorrect telephone numbers. If that happens, the Internet user may be directed to a spoof website. That site may be designed to look exactly like the site the Internet user intended to visit, and the visitor may be tricked into sharing confidential information there.

Comodo’s Domain Name Service offers three safeguards against Domain Name Server data corruption.

The first advantage Comodo’s secure DNS has over that of the Internet service providers lies in user security. By using a secure DNS, users will be assured that their attempts to connect to websites they trust will not be redirected to malware or phishing sites. The second advantage lies in speed. The nodes that Comodo uses for its DNS services are placed strategically around the world to ensure that a users’ requests are resolved as rapidly as possible.

The third advantage of Comodo’s secure DNS is in ease of use. Using Comodo’s secure DNS does not require users to download any software, meaning that the only technical thing that a user has to do to set the product up is to open Internet settings in control panel and type new IP addresses in the primary DNS server boxes. Because no software is necessary, Comodo DNS also works with non-computer devices, such as wireless-enabled mp3 players and videogame consoles. To learn more, visit www.comodo.com/secure-dns.

Note for beginners: DNS stands for Domain Name System. It is the part of the Internet infrastructure that translates a familiar domain name, such as ‘example.com’ to an IP address like 123.456.789.04. This is essential because the Internet routes messages to their destinations on the basis of this destination IP address, not to the domain name. Whenever you type a domain name, your Internet browser contacts a DNS server and makes a ‘DNS Query’. In simplistic terms, this query is ‘What is the IP address of example.com?’. Once the IP address has been located, the DNS server replies to your computer, telling it to connect to the IP in question.

About Comodo
Comodo is a leading brand in Internet security, covering an extensive range of security software and services, including digital certificates, PCI scanning, desktop security, online faxing, and computer technical support services.

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Web Hosting Wire – Jersey City, NJ - “Comodo continues its commitment to free email security,” said Abdulhayoglu, the Chief Security Architect at Comodo. “We care for end users. We won’t abandon them.”

Abdulhayoglu’s comments were in response to thawte’s announcement that it would revoke its existing email certificates as of November 16. Both thawte and Comodo are certificate authorities, organizations sanctioned to issue digital certificates, small computer files that allow their owners to encrypt and decrypt other computer files.

Encryption scrambles email messages and attachments, rendering them unintelligible to anyone but the owner of the appropriate digital certificate. Unencrypted emails can be intercepted en route, read and altered.

Comodo secure email certificates ensure that email remains private by encrypting with up to 256-bit security, and digitally signs emails to ensure authenticity and integrity. Major mail clients such as Microsoft Outlook, Windows Mail, and Thunderbird all trust Comodo email certificates.

Comodo offers a simple online application and installation. The certificate is available in minutes. Because Comodo believes that secure communications are a right–not an expensive luxury–Comodo secure email certificates are free for non-business use. For a free email certificate, visit www.comodo.com/home/internet-security/free-email-certificate.php.

About Comodo
Comodo is a leading brand in Internet security, covering an extensive range of security software and services, including digital certificates, PCI scanning, desktop security, online faxing, and computer technical support services.

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Web Hosting Reviews – Jersey City, NJ - Windows Server 2008-compatible Comodo Backup protects network files with scheduled backups, at no charge.

Comodo Backup 2.0 provides convenient one–click backup of email accounts, Windows registries and system partitions. Comodo Backup allows administrators to schedule backups to fit work timetables, create customized backup routines with a range of filters and macros, and configure the backup protocol with Comodo’s intuitive interface in minutes.

Backups can be scheduled daily, weekly or synchronously.

In its synchronization mode, Comodo Backup will conduct rolling backups a pre-specified intervals, ensuring that files are always current. Comodo Backup logs all backup information, and sends information to team members about the status of backup jobs.

Once backed-up the files can be password-protected and encrypted using multiple algorithms, making them unusable to data thieves. Files can be automatically stored on a local drive, FTP or on network drives.

At 9.3 MB, this free software boasts a smaller setup size for Windows Vista, XP, 7.0, 8.0 and Windows 2003 server, in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. For more information, visit http://backup.comodo.com

About Comodo
Comodo is a leading brand in Internet security, covering an extensive range of security software and services, including digital certificates, PCI scanning, desktop security, online faxing, and computer technical support services.

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Web Hosting News – Jersey City, NJ - As an industry first, Comodo introduces vulnerability scanning for internal networks in the cloud. This innovation is available with the newest release of its product HackerGuardian™.

Merchants who accept payment cards such as credit cards are required to scan their networks at certain periods, checking for breaches in security. Previously, internal network scans required dedicated hardware, run by an onsite employee.

With HackerGuardian, businesses can now run remote scans of their internal and external networks using the same software. A lightweight bootable agent installed on one of the local network nodes can be activated by an employee who may be located in another state, or even on another continent.

Merchants required to meet level 1, 2, or 3 of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) can now centralize the administration of their vulnerability scans. They can use one software tool to manage scans of both their internal and external networks.

Internal Scanning

HackerGuardian’s Internal Scanning feature allows PCI DSS-compliant merchants to run vulnerability scans on computers located on a local area network. These computers are typically ‘inside’ the company’s private network and are protected by a perimeter firewall or other network security device. In order to run an internal scan, the administrator must first run the HackerGuardian internal scanning agent on the local network.

Once installed and configured, this Agent will establish a secure connection to a HackerGuardian Access server which will in turn establish a secure communication channel (connection) to a HackerGuardian scanning server. The scanning server will then be able to connect to and run scans on the local computers located at the IP addresses that have been specified in the ‘LAN Devices’ area of the HackerGuardian interface. The Agent software is available as an ISO image (to create a Live CD) or as files (to create a Live USB stick). The scans can be run directly by booting the device through either the Live CD or the Live USB stick.

There are two main prerequisites to running an internal scan:

* The creation of a ‘Local Device’ as a target for the scans in the ‘LAN Devices’ area of the HackerGuardian interface. Local Devices are defined by one or more IP addresses.
* The internal scanning Agent has been installed on the local network to communicate with the HackerGuardian scanning servers via VPN connection.

“Comodo is proud to lead the vulnerability scanning industry with Hackerguardian Internal Scanning,” said Melih Abdulhayoglu, Comodo’s CEO. “We are committed to creating trust online and making it easier to communicate and transact over the Internet. With HackerGuardian Internal Scanning, merchants can concentrate on building their relationships with customers, instead of on fulfilling their regulatory requirements.”

About Comodo
Comodo is a leading brand in Internet security, covering an extensive range of security software and services, including digital certificates, PCI scanning, desktop security, online faxing, and computer technical support services.

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Web Host News – Jersey City, NJ - Comodo, the leading provider of trust online, which develops software and services enabling e-merchants, enterprises, and individual consumers to interact and conduct business securely via the Internet, today announced an alliance with SafeMashups Inc., an application authentication pioneer.

“Be it an eCommerce site interacting with a payments processor, or with a new mashup technology, Internet applications continue their relentless march. Consumers get their functionality from multiple interacting web services now,” said James Langman, VP of Business Development at Comodo Group Inc. “In this new environment it is critical for web applications interacting through a user’s browser to be able to establish a secure, mutually-authenticated channel, even in the presence of a potentially malicious user. SafeMashups’ innovative MashSSL repurposes the tried and tested SSL infrastructure to solve this issue.”

The MashSSL specification and software are available as free downloads at safemashups.com. The technology was named a finalist at the 2009 RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox. NetworkWorld recently named SafeMashups one of the Top Ten Companies to watch out for in the next year.

“We are pleased that an industry leader like Comodo would choose to partner with us in making MashSSL ubiquitous”, said Ravi Ganesan, Founder and CEO of SafeMashups. “MashSSL has the potential to fill a significant hole in the fabric of the Internet with a secure and standard protocol. MashSSL will also drive the adoption of SSL certificates, including EV-SSL certificates in a significant fashion”.

Both companies reiterated their commitment to work with other partners to rapidly make the standard completely open.

About Comodo
Comodo is a leading brand in Internet security, covering an extensive range of security software and services, including digital certificates, PCI scanning, desktop security, online faxing, and computer technical support services.

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Web Hosting News – Jersey City, NJ - When emailed documents will be needed later as legal proof, the person producing them needs to be able to swear that they have not been altered. Comodo Secure Email Pro offers a way to protect the contents of an email from alteration in transit.

Email’s ease and utility, which allows internal users, partners and customers to communicate effectively, also puts confidential information in reach of those who want to profit from it. To a moderately skilled person, inside the organization or out, unsecured email is easy to read, impersonate and alter, and is not much different from a postcard written in pencil.

Digital signatures on email documents represent a one-way hash (encryption) of the message content that uses the sender’s public and private key pair. This process creates a “signature” that only the sender’s public key can decrypt. The recipient, using the sender’s public key, can then validate the sender as well as the integrity of message contents. The sender’s digital signature will be un-trusted by the recipient’s email program if either the message content or sender’s digital certificate are invalid.

The Secure Email Pro signing procedure automates the digital signature process, and attaches the “signature” to the out-going document to be emailed. CSE Pro also checks and validates incoming signed documents using the reverse process.

Because the computer tenaciously pairs the digital signature to one saved version of the document, it is nearly impossible to repudiate a digitally signed document.

Comodo Secure Email Pro is an install-and-forget software application that can automatically digitally sign all outgoing messages without the need to pre-exchange passwords or public certificates. For further protection, email documents can also be encrypted, making them unintelligible to anyone but the intended recipient.

For more information about Comodo Secure Email Pro, visit http://enterprise.comodo.com/security-solutions/endpoint-security/.

About Comodo
Comodo CA, Ltd., is the world’s second-largest issuer of high-assurance digital certificates, providing online communications unreadable to anyone but the sender and the recipient.

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Web Hosting News – Jersey City, NJ - Comodo’s new server protection software will defend nodes in enterprise networks from malicious attacks. This new safeguard joins the other Comodo branded products protecting enterprises, including security software, encryption and vulnerability scanning.

PC users who adopted Comodo’s award-winning security software at home have brought it to work with them. Recently the firm has developed products geared specifically toward enterprises, including disk encryption and server protection.

“Protecting servers is critical to network security,” said Melih Abdulhayoglu, CEO of Comodo. “Users can rely on the Comodo brand for complete protection. The Comodo brand is already recognized as being a provider of high-assurance SSL certificates for encrypting communications, and for first-rate vulnerability scanning. Now, enterprises worldwide will trust the Comodo brand for its complete protection of their networks.”

Endpoint Security Manager also boasts remote and centralized management of Comodo Internet Security software on all networked PCs and servers. With Comodo Endpoint Security Manager, IT departments can

* Protect with Comodo’s award-winning firewall and antivirus with Default-Deny Protection™
* Seamlessly add or remove security configurations and applications, maintain a sound security policy
* Receive immediate notification of potential threats occurring on any part of the network
* Save hundreds of desktop support visits per year to improve reliability and technical staff effectiveness
* Reduce costs, simplify license management, and provide an immediate ROI

Other Comodo branded products for enterprises include digital certificates for encryption, and vulnerability scanning and authentication software for compliance requirements.

For more information about Comodo Endpoint Security Manager, visit http://enterprise.comodo.com/security-solutions/endpoint-security/

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Hosting News – Jersey City, NJ - Workers around the world access critical business information on Microsoft SharePoint and Outlook Web Access applications. IT managers can better control requests to see or modify business data, announced Comodo today. By adding another form of identification besides passwords to user logins, IT departments can manage who accesses corporate information over the Internet and in cloud-based applications.

To help secure small companies and promote security best-practices, Comodo has released a free version of its Two-factor Authentication for Microsoft SharePoint and Outlook Web Access.

“If you want to make SharePoint and Outlook Web Access available via the Internet — you have to secure it, and two-factor authentication is the best way to do it,” said Comodo’s CEO, Melih Abdulhayoglu. “When you are accessing Sharepoint or Outlook Web Access from inside the office, you are using the physical security of being on your local network. Yet, once you want to access the services from outside of your company’s local network, security becomes an issue. To ensure security, you must either use a VPN connection, which may be costly and hard to manage, or securely authenticate the user. Leaving it unsecure can result in the information being publicly accessible.”

“Two-Factor creates another layer of security for the cases when Sharepoint or Outlook Web Access is accessible from a public Internet connection by requiring multi-factor authentication. You can control access more securely if you add another factor like a secure cookie or client certificate on top of the password.”

Two-factor authentication seamlessly “double-checks” the identity of users logging on to SharePoint and Outlook Web Access. Two factor solutions are the industry standard for verifying online financial users: they protect assets by requiring another form of identification besides the user’s password.

In addition to passwords, Comodo’s free version of its Two-Factor Authentication solution can be configured to use cookies, security questions, or one-time passwords using an alternate communication such as email or SMS. The enterprise version offers customers the option of replacing cookies with client certificates. Both the free and the enterprise versions rely on information stored on the user’s computers. After installation, there is no change to the user’s login procedure, making Comodo Two-Factor Authentication easy to deploy and manage.

Comodo Two-Factor Authentication for Microsoft SharePoint and Outlook Web Access is a wizard-driven solution, easily installed on any network without client- or application-side development.

The free download is available for Windows, Linux or Solaris OS. Free users are limited to 25 users, allowing IT professionals to evaluate Comodo’s enterprise-grade Two-Factor Authentication without commitment or risk.

To download the free version, visit http://enterprise.comodo.com/security-solutions/authentication-identity-assurance/two-factor and click on “Get Two Factor Authentication for Microsoft Sharepoint and OWA.”

About Comodo
The Comodo companies provide the infrastructure that is essential in enabling e-merchants, other Internet-connected companies, software companies, and individual consumers to interact and conduct business via the Internet safely and securely. The Comodo companies offer PKI SSL, Code Signing, Content Verification and E-Mail Certificates; award winning PC security software; vulnerability scanning services for PCI Compliance; secure e-mail and fax services.

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