Fasthosts offers SaaS-ish MS Office
Blog Fasthosts, the ISP and hosting company, are offering Microsoft Office on the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. Fasthosts' CTO, Mark Jeffries, calls it "an excellent way to obtain the very latest versions of the software we all need, affordably...
[February 6, 2008, 15:53]
Fasthosts resets passwords after breach
News The hosting company Fasthosts has reset all its customers' passwords after the breach of one of the company's servers. This damage varied from a change to the home page of a website to some files being uploaded to the FTP space which had no visible...
[November 30, 2007, 16:30]
Major breach at Fasthosts
Blog Fasthosts - which, as the name suggests, does hosting, but also business ADSL - has suffered a major hack attack at its Gloucester HQ. As the breach could relate to Fasthosts customer data, in line with our established practice of protecting the...
[October 18, 2007, 14:49]
BT gets a blasting over Fasthosts outage
News A 36-hour outage at UK Internet service provider Fasthosts.co.uk has left many customers angry and planning to transfer their business to other hosting companies, even though the ISP blames BT for the problems.
[May 31, 2001, 14:51]
Major breach at Fasthosts
Blog Comment "A system-wide external security audit has removed the vulnerability that led to the recent network intrusion" I realise they can't list the exact vulnerability but I can't help being curious as to the origin of the software.
[October 19, 2007, 13:10]
Major breach at Fasthosts
Blog Comment Or, you could even check out the story on this site - it went up on Friday.
[December 3, 2007, 8:54]
Major breach at Fasthosts
Blog Comment And they've been hacked again and have changed EVERY customer's passwords arbitrarily and without warning. Then posting the new ones out. A complete shambles. Read the Comments on The Register! We're moving.
[December 3, 2007, 8:29]
Microsoft: Streaming Office 'infringes licence'
News Microsoft has said that the internet service provider Fasthosts, which has started offering a subscription-based version of Microsoft Office 2007, is infringing on the software giant's licence regulations — but Fasthosts has denied this claim.
[February 8, 2008, 14:59]
Is Website-Envy Provoking Digital Plagiarism?
Blog The aforementioned survey emanated from a web hosting provider called Fasthosts Internet Ltd. Fasthosts operates its own in-house ‘Abuse Department’ (no Monty Python argument jokes please) so I guess they would know.
[June 22, 2009, 8:51]
Sauce for the goose
Talkback Fasthosts has been inflicting outages on their customers for months that I know about. How convenient for them to discover they are 'damaged' when BT does it to them.
[March 24, 2008, 8:02]
Small businesses missing the blogging boat
News Small businesses need to make more use of blogs to drive traffic to their Web site, according to a study by Web hosting company Fasthosts. Fasthosts chief executive officer Andrew Michael suggested on Thursday that blogs were "a fantastic way for...
[September 28, 2006, 11:45]
Is there a point to .mobi?
News Registrars, though, are more upbeat, claiming "very good interest" in the domain extension throughout its pre-registration period.mobi is our most popular domain since landrush, easily outstripping the likes of .co.uk, .com and .net," said a...
[September 27, 2006, 15:35]
Unlimited storage???!!!!!
Blog It looks good so far, their terms of service don’t mention fair use or other restrictions, the man behind it set up Fasthosts, so he should be a somebody who understands a hosting service’s business models.
[January 7, 2009, 7:03]
UK leads in fastest-growing tech firms
News Bristol University spin-off Advanced Transport Systems came in at number 9 and Web-hosting firm Fasthosts Internet Ltd came in a number 10. The UK is in the lead when it comes to fast growing tech firms, according to the latest figures from...
[December 2, 2002, 16:36]
owner or 0wnd?
Talkback Now if the action had been taken after the initial breach then understandably it would reduce the number of website impacted by malicious content, yet to perform it over a month later appears to be more of an 'in hindsight' thought.
[December 3, 2007, 9:15]
