11Apr2014

Follow-up on Heatbleed SSL vulnerability

Follow-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.

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8Apr2014

SSL Vulnerability – Heartbleed Bug

SSL 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.

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3Apr2014

Server WWW-19 Problem – 1 April

Server 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.

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30Mar2014

Server WWW-19 Network Problem – 30 March

Server 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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11Feb2014

Name Server Maintenance – 14 February

Name Server Maintenance - 14 February

Maintenance has been scheduled for our primary name server ns1.i-svr.net for Friday 14 February. Maintenance action: The Clifton Data Centre will be performing server hardware relocation as part of a major expansion of their facility. Maintenance schedule: Date: Friday 14 February 07:00 to 15:00 SAST 05:00 to 13:00 GMT 24:00 to 08:00 EDT 21:00 Thursday […]

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