Plesk 12 Security Updates Issued

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…

WordPress 4.3.1 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. This release addresses three issues, including two cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and a potential privilege escalation.

We have been made aware of a serious security vulnerability in Bash that affects multiple operating systems and applications.

WordPress 4.2.3 is now available. This is a critical security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately.

Security updates have been issued for several Linux distributions to address a flaw in Sudo. Sudo allows users to run programs with the security privileges of another user, by default the superuser. Users must, by default, supply their own password for authentication, rather than the password of the target…

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…

This Public Service Announcement is a follow up to SA-CORE-2014-005 – Drupal core – SQL injection. This is not an announcement of a new vulnerability in Drupal. Automated attacks began compromising Drupal 7 websites that were not patched or updated to Drupal 7.32 within hours of the announcement of…

Oakley Capital has acquired web hosting control panel Plesk in a deal valued at $105 million, making Plesk a completely independent company from Parallels. According to a statement by Plesk on Friday, it plans to move beyond traditional web hosting into the hyperscale cloud – offering support for WordPress…

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.

Newsletter, a free WordPress plugin with more than 300,000 installations, was found to contain multiple vulnerabilities that could eventually lead to the takeover of an affected website. The bugs were discovered by the Wordfence team who notified the developer of the plugin.

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.

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…

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.

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 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.