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One thing that would drive us to fall off the wagon in January at Easyspace would be to find our servers have been compromised due to out-of-date software and patchier than patchy patching. For those who self-manage your dedicated & cloud server security, this should be at the forefront of your mind. You know this […]

A zero-day flaw in a WordPress plugin called BackupBuddy is being actively exploited, WordPress security company Wordfence has disclosed. “This vulnerability makes it possible for unauthenticated users to download arbitrary files from the affected site which can include sensitive information,” it said. The vulnerability affects versions 8.5.8.0 to 8.7.4.1, The BackupBuddy plugin for WordPress is […]

What is a Phishing email? Phishing is when attackers attempt to trick users into doing ‘the wrong thing’, such as clicking a bad link in an email that will download malware or direct them to a fake website.   The senders of these emails want to de-fraud you, either by asking you for details or by […]

We’re getting in touch to tell you about a vulnerability discovered in the Log4J logging library on Friday 10th December 2021. The Log4j vulnerability is a zero-day vulnerability. What do I need to do? Domain Names, Shared Web Hosting and Email customers. Our teams have been busy in the background, ensuring our Shared products and […]

As part of our focus on Security and Control, we recently upgraded our payment platform.  This was in preparation for changes coming in March 2022 and relates to big improvements in how we all process & use credit/payment cards in the UK and Europe. Say what now? From March 2022, SCA (Secure Card Authentication) will […]

We have some news about our plans for the coming year, as usual, lots to do, and many things to improve and build upon. Our year has focused on improving processes behind the scenes, all preparing for some of the new services to roll-out to our customers. Our working themes for the next 12 months […]

We have a lovely story about our friend and colleague over here at Easyspace towers, Colin McGregor. One of Colin’s close friends, Niall Williams, contracted Covid last year, and as a result, he spent 95 days in intensive care. He has thankfully recovered after this challenging period. Phew! Having spent over 6 months in hospital […]

Alex Redfern is the co-founder of LanguaTalk a marketplace for online language tutoring. Inspired by his travels through Canada, France, Spain and Sweden during his 20s, Alex came close to starting several businesses, including a subscription box for high quality teas. However, it was his exposure to foreign languages while with a Swedish girlfriend that […]

Researchers at security company Qualys discovered 21 vulnerabilities in Exim, a popular mail server, which can be chained to obtain “a full remote unauthenticated code execution and gain root privileges on the Exim Server.”. Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA), responsible for receiving and forwarding email messages. It runs primarily on Unix or Linux […]