FTC Shuts Down Silicon Valley Based 'Black Hat' ISP

For the first time, the Federal Trade Commission has terminated operations of an internet service provider it alleges, "recruits, knowingly hosts, and actively participates in the distribution of illegal, malicious and harmful electronic content".

According to the FTC affidavit the company, doing business as 3fn.net and APS Telecom, "actively recruited" to its hosting service thousands of "rouge" and "black hat" web sites.  The cached web site of  3fn.net (Triple Fiber Network) indicates it had a major server farm providing "Managed Virtual Hosting" in San Jose, CA.  READ MORE