Announcements

Reboot of OpenVZ nodes for Security patching

  • 23rd June 2015
A recent alert was posted for the OpenVZ linux kernel, RHEL6. The update, 042stab108.5 contains a fix to the issues identified and more information on the update can be found at the following link: https://openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel6/042stab108.5 We are in the process of applying this patch to all servers (including managed VPS servers) and ...
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Reboots for Security Patching

  • 14th June 2015
Recently, RedHat Linux identified a new privilege escalation vulnerability CVE-2015-1805 (https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1805) in RHEL 5 & 6 kernels that allows any local, unprivileged user to gain root access to the server.  It affects all RHEL and CentOS Linux servers and a kernel update and reboot is required to fix ...
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Business 2 DDoS

  • 20th May 2015
20 May 2015:  5.15pmWe have managed to narrow down the source of the attack to one IP belonging to one account on the server that is routed through cloudlfare.  We have null routed the IP so at this time all websites bar one are on line.We are notifying this one client and will work with this client to bring his site back when we feel it is safe ...
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Spam Experts Temporary Blip

  • 20th May 2015
Good DayWe had a temporary blip with Spam experts.  The whitelisting of our entire IP ranges have stopped working causing 550 bounce messages.We are adding the IPs in individually to solve the issue as this appears to work and are contacting Spam Experts to see why whitelisting an IP subnet is not working.Apologies if you got a 550 bounce the ...
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