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Security News
Protect your Google Account with Password Alert
Google have created a free open source extension for their Chrome web browser. Once installed, Password Alert will show a warning if you type your Google password into a site that isn’t a Google sign-in page. This can help protect … Continue reading
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Tagged browser, Chrome, extension, Gmail, Google, Google Apps, news, online security, passwords, security
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SSL 3.0 Protocol Vulnerability and POODLE Attack (CVE-2014-3566)
All Ecological Hosting web hosting servers have been updated to disallow SSLv3 to help mitigate the SSLv3/POODLE vulnerability. US-CERT Report: https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA14-290A “The POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) attack demonstrates this vulnerability using web browsers and web servers, which … Continue reading
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Tagged POODLE, security, shared hosting, ssl, SSLv3, vulnerability
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Bash ‘Shellshock’ Vulnerability (CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169)
A very serious flaw in a critical piece of software that runs on almost all Linux operating systems has been found. BBC news story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29361794 Dubbed ‘Shellshock’ the flaw allows attackers to potentially take control of a vulnerable system and … Continue reading
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Tagged bash, security, servers, shellshock, vulnerability
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Modern Anti-Spam and E2E Crypto Article
Nice write up of the long drawn out war against spammers and protecting email services from abuse: https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000780.html Written by Mike Hearn, a very smart/savvy ex-Googler Found via tweet by Matt Cutts: http://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/508108603253743616 As mentioned in the above article, a … Continue reading
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Tagged email, passwords, security, servers, shared hosting, spam
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WordPress Attack on UK Systems 24th August 2014
We are sorry to have to report that on the 24th August there was a significant security event on our UK based shared hosting systems. As at the time of writing I have already personally spent over 20 hours straight … Continue reading
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OpenSSL ‘Heartbleed’ Vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160)
There has been a lot of coverage concerning the following vulnerability: https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA14-098A We are pleased to be able to report that none of our systems are affected because we are currently running OpenSSL version 0.9.8 across the board. During the … Continue reading
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Tagged heartbleed, openssl, security, servers, ssl, vulnerability
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Sucuri Blog – Unmasking “Free” Premium WordPress Plugins
Sucuri (a web monitoring and malware clean up service) have posted an excellent article about WordPress plugins and their security implications: http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/03/unmasking-free-premium-wordpress-plugins.html If you don’t realise the security threat to your website, other sites in your FTP area and potentially … Continue reading
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Nominet’s Knowthenet launches The Social Age campaign
Nominet’s Internet advice site, knowthenet.org.uk has launched a campaign aimed at supporting parents so they can keep up with their kids and help them stay safe online. Knowthenet’s ‘The Social Age’ survey of parents and 8-16 year olds found that … Continue reading
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Tagged kids, Knowthenet, law, malware, Nominet, online security, parents, phishing, scam, security, social, spam
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WordPress wp-login Attacks
Please click here if you wish to skip the document updates section and jump to the start of the article. Updates: News article first published: 23 May 2013 19:02 26 June 2013: Server automated defences improved with a system that … Continue reading
WordPress 3.6.1 Security Update
WordPress 3.6.1 has been released. This is a critical security update that resolves several security vulnerabilities, including one that could result in remote code execution on your site. If your website is running WordPress, in order to help keep your … Continue reading
24 hours in the life of an email server
I was looking at our main email server statistics for the last 24 hours and thought I’d share a few: The server blocked 55% of all connection attempts immediately before they even got to trying to send, all thanks to … Continue reading
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Tagged attack, brute force, email, smtp, spam, statistics
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Planned Maintenance for US Shared Web Server Spot
Update: 8th August 2013 12:15 The planned upgrade described below has now been completed. Server side everything went smoothly with absolutely no issues at all. The current PHP version is now 5.4.17. A random selection of web sites have been … Continue reading
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Tagged maintenance, notice, php, spot, upgrade, web server
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Password Security
The ability to generate strong unique passwords for each and every website you have an account with has never been more important. It’s not just basic personal information that is at risk, routine use of online banking and shopping sites … Continue reading
TimThumb.php Malware attacks affecting WordPress sites
During the last two weeks of August we started seeing an alarming increase in the number of WordPress based websites that had been broken into. Within days we had handled more of these than we had seen in 12 years … Continue reading
Mailing Service Email Scam
20/10/2009: A new email scam is becoming very prevalent at this time. The emails suggest you follow a link because your email service has been updated and you need to apply the settings. Details are below. If you receive any … Continue reading
Domain Registry of America Scam
16/07/2007: It has come to our attention that a number of our clients are receiving domain renewal notices from this company. The letter is worded such that it appears as if you will lose your domain if you do not … Continue reading
Bogus PayPal Emails
We have intercepted a couple of scam email messages that purport to be from PayPal. These messages look very official and even link to the PayPal web site to retrieve their logo. Do not follow any links in these messages … Continue reading
