21Sep2016

Server WWW-28 reboot – 21 September

Server WWW-28 reboot - 21 September

We are rebooting server WWW-28 to address a problem with unexpected high load.

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20Sep2016

Name server connectivity – 20 September

The New Jersey data centre that hosts one of our domain name servers is experiencing connectivity problems.

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13Sep2016

Let’s Encrypt – Digital certificates for everyone!

A while back, Let’s Encrypt launched an initiative for free TSL certificates. This is part of a growing movement to secure the Internet and protect people’s privacy. Let’s Encrypt certificates have now arrived on Anno hosting plans.

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10Aug2016

Emails denied with “Win.Exploit.CVE_2016_3316-1” error

A virus signature update today by ClamAV is causing emails with Microsoft Word attachments to be incorrectly identified as having a Tojan virus infection “Win.Exploit.CVE_2016_3316-1”.

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26Jul2016

SMTP attack – 25 July

SMTP attack - 25 July

Our Dallas infrastructure has been under SMTP attack this week. Similar to an incident in February, spammers are using botnets to try connecting to our mail servers. To mitigate the attack, we have implemented soft failures for connections from IP addresses without reverse DNS.

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