Further to our last blog post regarding the Intel vulnerabilities Meltdown and Spectre, we are now in a position to give more guidance. While it is always important that your operating system is patched and secured, this particular matter is so far-reaching that special note is justified to address the fallout this has caused. This… Keep Reading
The Meltdown & Spectre vulnerabilities are very much all over the technical media – but are yet to make the real news. The impacts are threefold: Spectre Variant 1: bounds check bypass (CVE-2017-5753) Spectre Variant 2: branch target injection (CVE-2017-5715) Meltdown Variant 3: rogue data cache load (CVE-2017-5754) The vulnerability was discovered by Google’s Project Zero, a new class… Keep Reading
Hosting UK has been made aware of a suspected vulnerability in Intel’s CPU architecture affecting their processors as well as those from AMD and ARM. This hardware is used in customer solutions across the Hosting UK environment. Our priority as always is to protect our customers’ services. Our engineering team is, therefore, speaking to… Keep Reading
Oh, that’s a sad thing. No one likes to read that. But what you may not realise is that is sad for a number of reasons. Firstly, because parting – well it kinda feels like we did something wrong – and Secondly – because the chances are it will continue to happen. What follows are… Keep Reading
The following was released 2 hours ago – by WordPress. This is the kind of thing we are concerned about when we see so many sites unpatched. The When, not If. Take a moment and check over the version you are running. When logging in as the administrator – take a moment to check and… Keep Reading