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WordPress wp-login Attacks

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Jamie

What is happening? Over the last several months we have noticed a significant volume of brute force attempts to break into WordPress sites by directly posting login data to the wp-login script. These attacks are coming from tens of thousands of … Continue reading →

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Password Security

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Jamie

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 →

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phpMyAdmin 3.5.8 released

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Jamie

phpMyAdmin 3.5.2 was released on the 8th April 2013. This is a bugfix release. If you have a Dedicated Server or Linux vserver with us that has phpMyAdmin installed, we strongly recommend that you upgrade to the latest version available … Continue reading →

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phpMyAdmin 3.5.2 released

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Jamie

phpMyAdmin 3.5.2 was released on the 7th July 2012. This is a bugfix release. If you have a Dedicated Server or Linux vserver with us that has phpMyAdmin installed, we strongly recommend that you upgrade to the latest version available … Continue reading →

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phpMyAdmin 3.4.10.1 released

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Jamie

phpMyAdmin 3.4.10.1 was released on the 18th February 2012. This is a minor security release. If you have a Dedicated Server or Linux vserver with us that has phpMyAdmin installed, we strongly recommend that you upgrade to the latest version … Continue reading →

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phpMyAdmin 3.4.10 released

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Jamie

phpMyAdmin 3.4.10 was released on the 15th February 2012. This is a bugfix release. If you have a Dedicated Server or Linux vserver with us that has phpMyAdmin installed, we strongly recommend that you upgrade to the latest version available … Continue reading →

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phpMyAdmin 3.4.9 released

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Jamie

phpMyAdmin 3.4.9 was released on the 21st December. This is a bugfix release with minor security fixes. If you have a Dedicated Server or Linux vserver with us that has phpMyAdmin installed, we strongly recommend that you upgrade to the … Continue reading →

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TimThumb.php Malware attacks affecting WordPress sites

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Jamie

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 →

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phpMyAdmin 2.11 branch end of life

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Jamie

The phpMyAdmin developers have announced end of life for the old PHP4 compatible phpMyAdmin 2.11 branch. This only affects one server in our setup: sun.athnic.net Sun is the original Ecological Hosting server; this is where it all started. We have … Continue reading →

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Mailing Service Email Scam

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Jamie

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 →

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Domain Registry of America Scam

Posted on July 16, 2007 by Jamie

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 →

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Bogus PayPal Emails

Posted on October 25, 2005 by Jamie

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 →

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