Welcome to the Web Hosting News Report, your roundup of the top stories all in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know about.
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1st – Equifax Says Unpatched Apache Struts Vulnerability Behind Massive Security Breach
Equifax officials said today that its massive security breach was possible via unpatched web hosting application server vulnerability Apache Struts CVE-2017-5638, confirming what some in the security community expected to be the case last week when the news first broke.
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Read more about the breach. And, if you haven’t checked whether you’re affected yet, do so here: Check Potential Impact.
 2nd – DreamHost DOJ Fight a “Win for the Web”
“This morning Chief Judge Morin of the Superior Court of Washington D.C. took the time to examine the DOJ’s initial warrant and their amendment, weighing them against our concerns.
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We’re pleased that the court further limited the government’s access to this data today.”
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 3rd – Keep the Internet’s Backbone Free from Censorship
“The past few days have shown how fast we can glide down the slippery slope to web censorship.”
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Facebook and Twitter were perfectly within their rights, legally and ethically, when they banned accounts of certain hate groups and their leaders. Providers of web infrastructure, however, must be held to a stricter standard since they act as choke points that can prevent an individual or group from being able to express themselves online.
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Currently, there are no U.S. laws or regulations to prevent web infrastructure providers from taking such actions. Under federal law, private corporations can deny service to groups or individuals, as long as it’s not because of their race, religion or sexuality.
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 4th – Microsoft Chasing European Startups for Future Cloud Business
Microsoft Corp. is doubling down on its attempt to back Europe’s next big software startups, in order to win over the future business to its cloud platform.
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 5th – Trump Effect Could Cost U.S. Cloud Providers Over $10 Billion: Report
Cloud computing companies in the U.S. could lose more than $10 billion by 2020 as a result of the Trump administration’s reputation regarding data privacy, according to Swiss hosting company Artmotion.
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A whitepaper published by Artmotion suggests that growth rate in U.S. cloud revenue relative to the rest of the world will decline significantly more than previously forecast by IDC.
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