I am not going to beat around the bush on this, the last couple of days have been a little hectic here a TCH while working to deal with a series of web application vulnerabilities that are being taken advantage of by attackers. The purpose of this post is to explain a bit about what is going on, how these …

We have the last 3 days been tracking a local root vulnerability in the Linux kernel, the core element of all Linux operating systems. This vulnerability is unprecedented in scope, effecting Linux versions going as far back as 8 years which prompted extra consideration in how we handle it. Here at TCH we operate a network that is dominated by …

Yup, you guessed it – we are going to talk about backups. Here at TCH we take backups very seriously and when I say that I do not say it lightly, there is no single more important aspect of our management regime than our backup infrastructure. I am going to explain a bit about the extent to which we go …

At TCH we always try to keep our ear to the wall regarding trends in the industry of various forms from new service demands through to security. Last month word had come to us of a new and emerging trend that was resulting in the compromise of tens-of-thousands of web sites hosted in similar environments to that of TCH, no …