Plesk 12 Security Updates Issued

After the drama and panic in the last few weeks regarding the changes in the control panel landscape and in particular the changes at cPanel, many are now contemplating switching control panels. But what options are currently available? An overview below. Join Our Online Security and Hosting Newsletter Today…

Due to an exploit discovered in our billing and support system, our system was taken offline temporarily. This was done to ensure client data safety. The exploit was patched a short time afterwards, however we have decided to keep the billing portal temporarily offline until validity of this patch…

Researchers from universities in Adelaide, Eindhoven, Chicago, Maryland and Pennsylvania have published a paper describing how they used a local side-channel attack to break the Libgcrypt encryption library. The exploit could be used to recover a RSA-1024 key. Join Our Online Security and Hosting Newsletter Today and stay updated…

WordPress 4.7.2 was released last Thursday, January 26th. WordPress have just announced that In addition to the three security vulnerabilities mentioned in the original release post, WordPress 4.7 and 4.7.1 had one additional vulnerability for which disclosure was delayed. Join Our Online Security and Hosting Newsletter Today and stay…

Joomla! 3.7.1 is now available. This is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla! which addresses one critical security vulnerability and several bug fixes. The security issue was found to be the result of inadequate filtering of requested data that lead to a SQL Injection vulnerability. We…

An update for LiteSpeed 4 & 5 was just released to address a security vulnerability within OpenSSL (CVE-2015-1793) and it is recommended that you update as soon as possible. Join Our Online Security and Hosting Newsletter Today and stay updated with the latest news, updates, releases & much more….

An update for CloudLinux CageFS was just released to address a security vulnerability and it is recommended that you update as soon as possible. (This update was found by RACK911 Labs.) Join Our Online Security and Hosting Newsletter Today and stay updated with the latest news, updates, releases &…

cPanel has released new builds for all public update tiers. These updates provide targeted changes to address security concerns with the cPanel & WHM product. These builds are currently available to all customers via the standard update system. cPanel has rated these updates as having CVSSv2 scores ranging from…

A vulnerability that VMware patched recently in some of its products, is currently being exploited and Russian threat actors are leveraging this vulnerability to install malware on corporate systems and access protected data, the National Security Agency (NSA) warned on Monday. Join Our Online Security and Hosting Newsletter Today…

Joomla! has released version 3.7.3 of its Content Management System (CMS) software that addresses several security issues. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected website. Join Our Online Security and Hosting Newsletter Today and stay updated with the latest news, updates,…

Attackers are hijacking vulnerable home routers to launch attacks against WordPress sites. The attacks exploit two flaws in the TR-069 router management protocol to send malicious requests to port 7547. Experts have been advising home users to limit access to port 7547. Internet service providers (ISPs) could take steps…

Researchers have discovered authorization bypass bugs in three WordPress plugins, making a total of 400,000 WordPress websites vulnerable to cyber attacks. The affected plugins are InfiniteWP, WP Time Capsule and the WP Database Reset plugin. Join Our Online Security and Hosting Newsletter Today and stay updated with the latest…

An update for OpenSSL on RHEL was just released to help address the Poodle OpenSSL security vulnerability and it is recommended that you update as soon as possible. This update adds support for the TLS Fallback Signaling Cipher Suite Value (TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV), which can be used to prevent protocol downgrade…

  Multiple vulnerabilities for the Drupal CMS have been discovered. Drupal have released versions 8.3.4 and 7.56 which contain fixes for these security vulnerabilities. We recommend that you update Drupal as soon as possible. Join Our Online Security and Hosting Newsletter Today and stay updated with the latest news,…

Simply patching systems against the Bash/Shellshock vulnerability may not be adequate. Attacks exploiting the flaw appeared within a day of its disclosure. Those attacks may have made changes to systems that would not be remedied by the application of a patch. Join Our Online Security and Hosting Newsletter Today…