BitFolk Announcements May 2012

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Network issues, also hardware problems on barbar, 1826Z and ongoing

by Andy Smith

Hi, We're experiencing widespread network problems, including a DDoS and also a possible hardware failure on barbar, all at the same time. I am investigating and will let you know more as soon as I can. Apologies for the disruption. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

12 years, 6 months

DNS recovery alerts regarding c.authns.bitfolk.com just now

by Andy Smith

Hi, A large number of DNS "recovery" alerts were just sent out for domains hosted on c.authns.bitfolk.com. Apologies, they were sent in error. The hosting provider for c.authns was doing some work last night so I disabled alerts. Unfortunately I disabled them while the host was offline and Nagios didn't check again until I re-enabled them just now, which resulted in a flood of "recovery" alerts. In reality the host was only down for a short time. Sorry for any confusion this may have caused. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

12 years, 7 months

Intermittent network issues since ~09:40Z today

by Andy Smith

Hi, For around the last hour there have been intermittent periods of high packet loss. I'm working with our transit provider on this at the moment and will give you more information when I have it. Apologies for the disruption. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

12 years, 7 months

A gentle reminder again about protecting against SSH dictionary attacks

by Andy Smith

Hello, It's been a while since I last posted a reminder about protecting against SSH dictionary attacks. http://lists.bitfolk.com/lurker/message/20100314.085112.f5be7da9.en.html The problem of course has not gone away and since then there have been many more compromises that could have been easily avoided. So, please, if you are running sshd on port 22 and allowing password authentication, please consider taking some steps to protect yourself. It can very easily happen to you, and aside from the damage it can cause to other hosts on the Internet it risks significant downtime for your own services. I wrote up some more info from previous discussions: https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Protecting_against_SSH_dictionary_attacks If you have further input please do feel free to add to the above wiki article. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

12 years, 7 months

PHP-CGI exploit probes seen - please make sure your VPS is secured against this

by Andy Smith

Hi, As you may be aware a major security problem was recently found in PHP when run in CGI mode. A customer has recently had their VPS compromised and has discovered probes for this vulnerability as described here: http://blog.sucuri.net/2012/05/php-cgi-vulnerability-exploited-in-the-wild.… So, if you are running PHP in CGI mode you absolutely must secure it against this. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

12 years, 7 months

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