The need for strong and unique passwords
Following hot on the heels of the recent Heartbleed vulnerability, is this week’s announcement by e-commerce giant eBay that their database has been compromised. By the sounds of it, private information like usernames, email addresses and passwords were stolen.
Continue ReadingFollow-up on Heatbleed SSL vulnerability
The Heartbleed bug made headlines this week; it is a bug that can have serious repercussions. One security researcher compared it to leaving your front door unlocked for the past two years: anyone could have entered you house (server) without your knowledge.
Continue ReadingSSL Vulnerability – Heartbleed Bug
Heading the news in IT today was not Microsoft’s final security update for Windows XP, but the announcement of a severe bug in the OpenSSL library. OpenSSL is used by many Internet servers to secure websites via SSL. The bug has left many servers vulnerable to exposing sensitive information such as user login.
Continue ReadingServer WWW-19 Problem – 1 April
This is to confirm that we have been experiencing severe problems with Linux server WWW-19 today. At two occasions, once this morning (SA time) and once this afternoon, the server froze and we had to perform emergency reboots.
Continue ReadingServer WWW-19 Network Problem – 30 March
This is to confirm that Linux server WWW-19 has been experiencing network connectivity problems since late on Saturday. Right now most of the websites on the server are inaccessible and (depending on the IP address used) the email service may appear unavailable too.
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