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CVE issued this morning : http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/481 detailed: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/att-482/MySQL-Exploit-Remote-Root-Code-Execution-Privesc-CVE-2016-6662.txt Percona has already issued patches.  Most other vendors however: not yet.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/databases-from-hot-scripts-mac-forums-web-hosting-talk-surface-on-the-dark-web-506129.shtml http://www.csoonline.com/article/3093018/security/mac-forums-hot-scripts-and-web-hosting-talk-databases-for-sale.html edited to add: shit security practices by...

Tasteless marketing campaign of the day: advertising email received today, about 12 hours after 5 Dallas police officers were killed: That LSN ad is similar to a Microsoft/Bing tweet blast to 100,000 subscribers in 2011 following the earthquake in Japan The consumer backlash from...

...for your new host-in-a-box VPS business, could you at least read what you've ripped before you copy and paste it into your template, and make sure that what you're about to paste is relevant to a hosting business???  (TOS section from a new VPS host which was started by a couple of people...

http://boingboing.net/2016/06/27/sec-sues-frack-master-ce.html http://www.dallasnews.com/business/energy/20160627-inside-an-80-million-energy-scam-the-sec-s-story-of-dallas-breitling-energy.ece SEC announcement:   copy of the SEC...

Email sent by Internoc 24 LLC to customers offering an investment opportunity in Bitcoin (Internoc24 LLC is a hosting provider registered in Delaware as an LLC which has been the subject of many complaints in the past: search google and WHT) Internoc24 LLC is registered as a Delaware LLC but...

OVH offers users  the choice of using its modified custom Linux kernels or the regular distro's kernel.  Ubuntu's license contains a clause that requires anyone who distributes a modified version of Ubuntu to get approval from Ubuntu and pay a license fee to use the Ubuntu mark. Canonical/Ubuntu...

PayPal is apparently turning into big brother and demanded that Seafile monitor files that customers upload to its hosted Seafile service as a condition for accepting PayPal.  SeaFile refused and so PayPal will no longer be an option for Seafile services as of tomorrow June 19. The big...

PayPal customers in Turkey will no longer be able to receive or send money as of June 6, 2016 (only 1 week's notice was given) because Turkish regulators have rejected PayPal's license. This is going to hit any hosting company hard that is either located in Turkey or has customers in Turkey...

The U.S. Supreme Court quietly OK'd a rule change last Thursday that will allow the government to obtain a warrant and remotely hack into ANY computer or smartphone that has anonymity software installed on it (VPN, Tor browser, etc) and the devices of anyone who has tried to conceal their...

The UK's largest host (according to their press releases), 123-reg, which hosts 1.7 million websites and has 800,000 customers, made a boo-boo and accidentally deleted 67 nodes containing hundreds of VPS. The company claims it wasn't that bad because "The fault was limited to 67 servers out of...

TL;DR:  DO decided to go the debt route rather than begging for more VC funding, and it just took out a loan of $130 million which is more than the $123 million an assortment of venture capitalists had previously coughed up. full...

DreamHost's OpenStack powered DreamCompute has come out of its 2 year  beta and entered general availability.  This is actually a nice full featured OpenStack offering compared to GoDaddy's recent OpenStack Cloud launch (which still felt like a beta to me), or OVH's Public Cloud, both of which...

If any of you OVH based providers want to set yourself apart from the crowd and be the first to start offering PowerKVM VPS's out of RBX for under $7 monthly I might be interested.  A Power8 OpenStack offering would be even better as long as you keep it under $7  (it's been impossible to find a...

GoDaddy has launched an hourly billing cloud platform targeted to developers to compete with AWS, DO, et al.  Pricing and plans are similar to Digital Ocean (20 GB, No more than $5.00 /month ($0.0074 /hour) ,512MB Memory, 1 CORE Processor, 20GB SSD Disk, 1TB Transfer).  KVM virtualization...

Scaleway added x86_64 dedicated Avoton's to their cloud mix today.  All offerings are dedicated bare metal servers with unlimited transfer,  LSSD storage (the €23.99 offering also includes 250GB DSSD storage) new offerings: €11.99month Avoton C2550 4 Dedicated x64 Cores 8GB Memory 50GB...

The hacking of LinuxMint's site is yet another example of why lazy idiots who are running outdated WordPress installs with multiple critical vulnerabilities need to update their sites regularly (hosting industry examples are blog.colocrossing.com WP v3.5.1, lowendbox v 4.3.1, Quadranet CEO's...

EIG has acquired one of the sleaziest web hosting outfits on the planet: Ecommerce Inc / IX Web Hosting.  Fathi Said and his band of scumbags at Ecommerce Inc are one of the most spam friendly hosts anywhere: currently ranked #7 on Spamhaus' Top Ten List.   Prior to founding Ecommerce Inc...

Interesting reading...   l report: https://oag.ca.gov/breachreport2016

Arbor Networks annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report: one of the highlights is a 500 Gbps DDoS attack sustained by one of its clients last year https://www.arbornetworks.com/images/documents/WISR2016_EN_Web.pdf (115 pages )