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Service announcements and related posts from the Blacknight technical team
Summary: On December 9th a vulnerability in the java logging package log4j 2.x was announced. This is widely used in enterprise software across the globe. Upon learning of the security issue Blacknight began investigating what versions of this software was being run across our platforms and customer infrastructure. Our findings are as follows: Plesk: latest […]
As part of ongoing security measures Zendesk, the providers of our help.blacknight.com helpdesk, are stopping support for older TLS versions, TLS 1.0 and 1.1. This means if you are using a very old browser or mobile client you will no longer be able to access the helpdesk until you upgrade. Affected browsers and mobile […]
Summary: Earlier this week we were alerted about a vulnerability that could potentially allow a remote attacker to access privileged memory on servers, desktops etc. We have been working with our vendors in relation to this. What is affected: All services are potentially affected. Every Linux and Windows release is currently vulnerable to these attacks. Our […]
Cisco have issued a high impact security advisory for a number of vulnerabilities discovered recently. The Shadow Brokers EPICBANANA and EXTRABACON Exploits Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance SNMP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability We are scheduling two maintenance windows to unclog our arteries. The firewalls are clustered and each pair will be failed over twice. Date: 2016-08-31 23:00 – 2016-09-01 […]