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Patch up WordPress ( please )

Waking up today and we’re hearing about more issues with certain plugins so once again here’s the type of blog post you see quite a bit on here. It’s namely the keep your website up to date post. You generally keep the software on your computer up to date don’t you? There are new features, [...]

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Defending Against A Massive WordPress Brute Force Attack

Over the last few days there has been quite a bit of media attention on a very large attack against self-hosted WordPress sites. As the largest host of WordPress powered sites in Ireland we were impacted as well and have been tracking this attack closely. Last Tuesday we began to see high load on a [...]

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Keep your site up to date

No we’re not talking about keeping your site up to date with new content. In this post I’m talking about keeping the software you’re running your site on up to date and it’s not a new topic on the blog for us. I’ll mainly be talking about WordPress (which is at 3.4.1) but it’s the [...]

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Security Issues

Normally we blog about pretty much all news we have – both good news and bad news. This morning, however, we felt it prudent to take a slightly different route and emailed our clients directly before publishing anything anywhere else. As has been covered in the media today we had a security issue which led [...]

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RIPE Anti-Abuse Working Group Presentation on Hosters vs Malware

Yesterday afternoon I presented to the RIPE Anti-Abuse Working Group at RIPE 63 in Vienna. Normally my presentations tend to run over, but yesterday, for possibly the first time ever, I “flew” through the presentation probably a bit too quickly! In any case here are the slides I used: Hosters vs. Malware: Best Practices View [...]

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Talking Malware At RIPE 63

Image via Wikipedia RIPE 63 is being held this week in Vienna, Austria and I’ll be heading out to the meeting tomorrow (assuming Air France’s industrial actions don’t affect me!) One of the areas that I’m particularly interested in is network abuse and as such I’ll be presenting on Tuesday afternoon as part of the [...]

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Stopping Badware

I’ve always been a strong believer that good behaviour and a clean internet would lead to a better experience for everyone. There is a lot of nasty stuff out there and we’ve always tried to do what we can to stop it from affecting our clients. Unfortunately “network abuse” is not “sexy” or exciting and [...]

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Blacknight Warn Users to Mind Their Content Management Systems

Cases of compromised website Content Management Systems (CMS) are on the rise and Blacknight would like to remind users to update their CMS and plugins regularly. There is nothing more Internet-embarrassing than losing control of your website and recent Content Management System breaches are a reminder of the importance of operating your online business in [...]

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TimThumb security issue with WordPress

We’re seeing a fair bit of chatter this morning about a security exploit in TimThumb so if you run a WordPress blog and are using a third party theme that resizes images chances are good that it has TimThumb included in it. (TimThumb doesn’t come with WordPress by default) For more info about the exploit [...]

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Blacknight Solutions Warn of Domain Renewal Scams

Carlow, April 26th Domain space innovators Blacknight Solutions are striving to make the public aware of Domain Renewal Scams. When the time comes to renew a domain name, registrants receive renewal notices via email from their registrar. However, an overwhelming number of domain registrants are receiving renewal requests via postal mail and email from entities [...]

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Is Your PC Safe?

As a registrar and hosting provider we normally don’t talk much about PCs. Why would we? Unfortunately there are times when it is necessary. The desktop computer has almost become as ubiquitous as the internal combustion engine in many respects. Nobody would try to run an office without a computer these days. But unfortunately we, [...]

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Why We Run Fraud Checks

Fraud sucks. We sell primarily online, so we’re very wary of fraud. We’ve been targetted several times in the past by fraudsters from the four corners of the globe. While it’s easy to say that country X or country Y is a “hotbed” of fraud, the reality is that fraud is an international problem. People [...]

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