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Is the risk for an attack higher or lower when dealing with local adversaries and remote hosting?

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Consider your local three letter agency is targeting you. When you host (or generally do stuff beyond hosting) locally is the risk for an attack higher compared to remote hosting?
In case of remote hosting I’d assume a country with a simil… Continue reading Is the risk for an attack higher or lower when dealing with local adversaries and remote hosting?→

AWS updates its edge computing solutions with new hardware and Local Zones

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AWS today closed out its first re:Invent keynote with a focus on edge computing. The company launched two smaller appliances for its Outpost service, which originally brought AWS as a managed service and appliance right into its customers’ existing data centers in the form of a large rack. Now, the company is launching these smaller […] Continue reading AWS updates its edge computing solutions with new hardware and Local Zones→

cPanel 2FA bypass vulnerability can be exploited through brute force

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A two-factor authentication (2FA) bypass vulnerability affecting the popular cPanel & WHM software suite may allow attackers to access secured accounts, Digital Defense researchers have found. The vulnerability has been patched last week and, by n… Continue reading cPanel 2FA bypass vulnerability can be exploited through brute force→

Reeling from ransomware attack, Managed.com takes down its entire web hosting infrastructure

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In the early hours of Monday morning, Managed.com – a major provider of managed web hosting solutions – discovered it was the victim of a co-ordinated ransomware attack.

Such is the severity of the attack that Managed.com has taken client websites … Continue reading Reeling from ransomware attack, Managed.com takes down its entire web hosting infrastructure→