The bad guys never sleep
Patch Tuesday saw a couple really nasty holes in Windows being plugged today. And then there is the news of the passwords for many DropBox accounts being leaked as well (apparently not DropBox’s fault though).
Continue ReadingServer WWW-26 RAID Maintenance – 9 to 18 October
The RAID array on Linux server WWW-26 reporting errors. As a precautionary but essential measure, we are replacing both hard drives in the array.
Continue ReadingSpam filtering problem – 7 October
A misconfiguration in one of the SpamAssassin rules resulted in some incoming email to be incorrectly flagged as spam. This resulted in those messages to be denied delivery.
Continue ReadingWWW-25 Reboot – 1 October
We have performed an unscheduled reboot of the server to correct an internal problem with the Lightweight Virtual Environment (LVE) system.
Continue ReadingShellShocked web servers
Security news this week was dominated by the vulnerability in the the GNU Bash and Bourne Again Shell. This post is to allay any fears and confirm that all our servers are safe from this vulnerability.
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