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 …

The payment portal Authorize.net, which is used by TotalChoice Hosting and many of our clients, has been offline for hours, meaning that its merchants have been unable to process credit card payments through their web sites. Your account will not be affected due to this incident and we will be extending our payment grace period to insure your sites stay …

At 3:34 PM EST, we begin to see intermittent packet loss to some of our network due to an inbound Denial of Service attack. We then experienced a core router crash while working to mitigate the attack. This resulted in a wide spread network outage until 3:46 PM EST, when we were able to switch over to our redundant core …

April 24, 2009 4:05 PM TotalChoice Hosting Total Choice is currently experiencing a wide spread network outage.  We have networking engineering personnel on site in investigating this issue. At this time we do not have a estimated time for when normal network conditions will return. We will keep this site updated as this unplanned outage moves along. We are very …