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.

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.