Last week, cPanel released version 11.46 to its Release tree which is what most servers run on. Many servers have already gotten the latest version or will in the next couple of days. There are, however, a couple of requirements…
One of the most commonly installed utilities on a Linux system, Bourne Again Shell(Bash), was vulnerable to a serious Remote Code Execution vulnerability. These vulnerabilities were documented as CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169. This allowed an attacker with the ability to execute…
Recently we have noticed a large amount of hits to the xmlrpc.php files within WordPress installations and have been causing server loads to rise. This is due to functionality in WordPress called pingbacks that is being used to perform DDOS…
WordPress is one of the largest content management systems around and is often a target to a plethora of attacks. Recently WordPress brute force attacks have become more and more common. These brute force attacks are using a large amount…
We had quite the day today. One of the bigger holes I have ever seen, the Heartbleed openssl vulnerability. This only affects RedHat 6 and its derivatives such as Centos, CloudLinux and several others. All of our clients had the…
I’d like to take a quick moment to introduce our new Server Technician, Michael Harris. In addition to being a server administrator, Michael has a lot of experience in php application development, so we are looking forward to expanding into…
We here at GOT have been quiet, but we have been developing some new strategies to mitigate DDoS attacks and also provide a platform for VERY high bandwidth applications. The technology is similar but with different approaches. We are hosting…
We have just been made aware of a very serious security problem with the WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache WordPress Plugins. This security hole allows any attacker to gain full control of the blog and upload whatever content…
Mailenable, the free mail server that comes bundled with Parallels Plesk, has announce critical security updates have been released. We have completed updating all out clients servers. More information can be found here: http://www.mailenable.com