Apple has just rolled out an urgent update to fix two nasty security holes that hackers are actively exploiting. If you’ve got an iPhone or iPad, this is your cue to hit that update button! What’s Going On? These are called zero-day vulnerabilities – basically, flaws that attackers find before Apple can patch them. That means they’re super dangerous… Keep Reading
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
We get a bunch of emails. We do. In fact we get a shed load, every engineer, sales, and manage-person. Today we had one marked Domain Expiration SEO. It looked kosher. It smelt like something that you should pay attention to, but thankfully someone stopped and checked. What follows are a few words on what… Keep Reading
CDN’s are great. Seriously. They are a wonder of the modern age. You get your heavy lifting done by someone else, and they have offices around the globe. What is not to like? Oh – okay – so maybe if they start over sharing you find yourself with an issue. A very ugly issue. It… Keep Reading
Sometimes we have to say goodbye. Next month we say goodbye to CentOS 5 going EoL (End of Life) – but most critically to most of you – we have PHP… which is constantly evolving and moving forwards. 5.6 that so many of us are still using regretfully – well it is now slipping into… 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
Lets stop for a moment and re-visit the importance of patching your CMS and what can happen if you do not. Why? Because the trends are not changing. In fact, they are stagnant. Put in overly simplistic terms would you go out and leave your house, shop, warehouse unlocked? No, probably not. Your website –… Keep Reading
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