Apache Web Sever Upgrade
There is a reason that Apache is the world’s most popular web server. After receiving a very rare security warning yesterday, the fix was in and installed today. We are now running version 2.2.22.
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Computer Hosting Upgrades
We always keep our servers up to date to provide a robust security environment. This is in contrast to the big boys, who, once you establish an account, never upgrade the operating system software and packages. The following packages have […]
Apache 2.2.17_2
The latest version of the Apache web server is available and installed. We apologize for the 30 seconds of downtime required for the upgrade.
libSM storage size of ‘uuid’ isn’t known
For some time now my auto builds of libSM, libXmu, libXt, and libXaw have been failing. These failures seemed to start with libSM and revolve around definitions found, or not found, in the header file uuid.h. Google foo only revealed […]
OpenSSL Security Update Problems
Yesterday we received and applied a new security update contained in openssl-0.9.8l_2 designed to address “man in the middle attacks” which allows attackers to insert data into HTTPS sessions, and possibly other types of sessions protected by TLS or SSL. […]
OpenSource FreeBSD Updates December 20, 2009
A number of updates were completed today. The majority of the updates are to core packages and we expect no changes to our server’s functionality. As is normal, our web services were down for about 5 minutes during the Apache2 […]
Vpopmail 5.4.28 vdelivermail (core dumped)
Yesterday, the port download for a new version of vpopmail became available. The new version had been reported as available for several days, but none of the download sites would respond. The new port built without error. Everything seemed aok […]
FreeBSD updates September 04, 2009
The following packages have been updated: e2fsprogs-libuuid-1.41.8 libxml2-2.7.3_1 fribidi-0.19.2_1 fusefs-kmod-0.3.9.p1.20080208_6
PicScout Elusive Bot
In the better late then never category; while investigating unusual server behavior I ran across picscout.com. I fail to actually link this website; it is no oversight. While consulting google foo I ran across a number of interesting posts. It […]
FreeBSD updates August 25, 2009
This morning we received several vulnerability security warnings for Apache. While the initial read of the warnings seem to preclude our current configuration, it is better safe than sorry. The main threat appears to be Denial of Service (DOS) related. […]