4Jun2015
The bad guys never sleep. A recent trend has been fake invoice emails that contain malware, the attachments often disguised as PDF files while in fact they are executables. Other schemes involve zipping the bad files, a technique that often by-passes spam filters.
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13May2015
The availability of a string of new top-level domain names have brought with a few headaches. Spammers have been exploiting the registration systems for .NINJA, .CLICK and a number of other new domain extensions. It would appear that the penalty (financially or otherwise) for registering one of these domains and then using it for a spam […]
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13Apr2015
Our server health monitoring system rebooted the server to address a problem with the Apache web service. The reboot was not successful resulting in an outage of nearly two hours. We apologise for the inconvenience.
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13Mar2015
Our secondary name server will be offline for a few minutes on Friday evening (GMT time) while it receives system security updates.
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5Mar2015
An electrical fire broke out today at the Great Westerford building in Cape Town that houses the Hetzner data centre. The Cape Town Fire Department had the fire under control and extinguished by late morning. Service was not affected and continued to run as normal.
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