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Summary: Storm Dudley is expected to hit Ireland and Met Éireann have issued a yellow wind warning for most of the country. While this shouldn’t have much effect on our overall operations from a data centre point of view, it could affect engagement with our customer service teams whom are dotted around the country working […]
Summary: A backend storage service needs to be restarted urgently and this can’t be done online, it requires that we shutdown the email services for mail.blacknight.com for up to 60 minutes. When: This work will take place tomorrow morning 26/01/2022 between 02:00 and 03:00
Summary: Since 9am approximately on 22/12 Weare.ie (The Irish domain registry/IEDR) have been having issues with their registry backend. We are unable to submit new domain registrations or domain transfers as a result. They aren’t able to give us an ETA as of yet. But they have informed us that they’ve engaged their software vendor […]
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 […]