We were contacted by a company who have several dedicated servers using the Plesk interface provided by Parallels to manage the user interface (a common alternative to CPanel). Their server had been taken down as it had been compromised via a recently released, critical vulnerability with Parallels Plesk affecting versions 7.6.1 – 10.3.1.
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I mostly blog about the Joomla! Content Management System, business networking, and other geeky subjects which I think are interesting.
Ruth Cheesley
I am the owner and Director of Virya Technologies, with the responsibility for leading the website design team.
I am primarily involved with the day to day management of our website projects, ongoing support contracts and liaising with our clients from across the world.
I am primarily involved with the day to day management of our website projects, ongoing support contracts and liaising with our clients from across the world.
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Parallels Plesk vulnerability in the wild - affects versions 7.6.1 – 10.3.1
Posted by Ruth Cheesley
on Monday, 05 March 2012
in IT Support
Ruth Cheesley
I am the owner and Director of Virya Technologies, with the responsibility for leading the website design team...
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When your server goes down you just can't wait until morning!
Posted by Ruth Cheesley
on Thursday, 04 August 2011
in IT Support
Ruth Cheesley
I am the owner and Director of Virya Technologies, with the responsibility for leading the website design team...
User is currently offline
We received a call just after midnight from a server administrator who was having difficulties with his mail server - to the point that his international clients were unable to receive email at the middle of their peak period. Nobody else picked up the phone ... we did!
