Security

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POODLE Vulnerability – We’ve disabled SSLv3 support on our web hosting servers

Chris O'Brien October 17, 2014 0 Comments
On October 14th 2014 Google released details on the POODLE attack, a padding oracle attack that targets CBC-mode ciphers in the 15 year old SSLv3 security protocol. The vulnerability allows an active "man-in-the-middle" attacker to decrypt content exchanged via an SSLv3 connection. While secure connections primarily use TLS (the successor to SSL), most users were vulnerable because web...
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Don’t be misled if you get an email from IGN Domains

Chris O'Brien July 18, 2014 0 Comments
Over the past couple of weeks we've received calls and emails from a few customers about an email they have received from a "company" called IGN Domains asking them to confirm they are the registered owner of their domain name and informing them that, in all cases, someone is trying to register the same name on "7 domain extensions".  The email also invited the customer to get in touch with IGN...
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