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Apache Vulnerability – Crucial Patching

Daniel G., April 4, 2019 0 3 min read

The Apache HTTP Server is among the top choices when it comes to web server software, powering almost 40% of the internet. When such a widely spread software has a problem in its base structure, It’s crucial to have it fixed as soon as possible.…

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Addressing the Recent Downtime and Emergency Maintenance on Cloud Infrastructure

Georgi Y., January 12, 2018 11 3 min read

During the past week, our clients experienced several periods of service interruption caused by server reboots, kernel updates, and unscheduled maintenances. Our community manager and customer service staff are working around the clock to keep our clients informed and updated about our maintenance schedules and to minimize the negative impact as much as possible.…

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Addressing Meltdown and Spectre

Antoniy, January 11, 2018 2 6 min read

Update: February 18, 2018

Newly discovered variants of Meltdown/Spectre dubbed MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime that exploit invalidation-based coherence protocols with 99.95% accuracy of recovering hidden data have been discovered by Princeton and Nvidia researchers.

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Joomla – Major Security Fix in Version 3.4.5

Dimitar, October 28, 2015 0 1 min read

A new Joomla security vulnerability was officially announced by the Joomla Security Strike Team (JSST). It is affecting a large number of users and can easily allow full access to your website and disclosure of all the information in your database.…

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GLIBC GHOST Vulnerability and Do We Need to Reboot

Christopher, January 29, 2015 0 4 min read

A new remote zero-day security vulnerability has been discovered in the glibc under CVE-2015-0235. This vulnerability allows attackers to remotely access some vulnerable Linux-based systems without the use of compromised passwords or other user credentials.…