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Watch out for paid review sites
Searching for reliable hosting can be a hard task, because how can you trust a web hosting company you want to do business with, while there are tons of ways to give a hint on the operations of a hosting company there is really no way to be certain, especially since most review sites these days seem to be paid ones. As a hosting company we are offered more as once to pay for a listing at one of...
SSL/TLS MITM vulnerability (CVE-2014-0224)
SSL/TLS MITM vulnerability (CVE-2014-0224) =========================================== An attacker using a carefully crafted handshake can force the use of weak keying material in OpenSSL SSL/TLS clients and servers. This can be exploited by a Man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack where the attacker can decrypt and modify traffic from the attacked client and server. The attack can only be performed...
Joomla and WordPress Brute Force attacks
If you are using Joomla or Wordpress  there is a high chance your site will be under attack now or in the near feature by a so called Brute Force Attacks. The attacker tries to gain access to your application by guessing the password; often because users have the default username or simple passwords. But such an attack has also an impact on the system resources, when an attack comes from an...
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