Tag Archives: security

Protect your Google Account with Password Alert

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Jamie

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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SSL 3.0 Protocol Vulnerability and POODLE Attack (CVE-2014-3566)

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Jamie

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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Bash ‘Shellshock’ Vulnerability (CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169)

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Jamie

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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Modern Anti-Spam and E2E Crypto Article

Posted on September 6, 2014 by Jamie

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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OpenSSL ‘Heartbleed’ Vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160)

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Jamie

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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Nominet’s Knowthenet launches The Social Age campaign

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Jamie

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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WordPress wp-login Attacks

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Jamie

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 →

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WordPress 3.6.1 Security Update

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Jamie

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 →

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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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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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