We all understand the critical importance of maintaining an online presence. The image above displays a live uptime report relating to sites hosted by Digital Tsunami. On private clouds and dedicated web servers in the USA, China, Hong Kong and Australia, Digital Tsunami has been hosting websites since, well .. last century! Over the last quarter, uptime has been 99.988% …Read More…

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In the space of a month, yet another security vulnerability has been identified and announced. Known as the ‘SSLv3 protocol vulnerability and POODLE Attack’, (aka “POODLEbleed”, referencing the the recent Heartbleed vulnerability), the SSL Man In The Middle (MITM) Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CVE-2014-3566) affects version 3.0 of SSL, which was introduced in 1996, and has since been …Read More…

Shellshock is a serious security vulnerability in Bourne-Again SHell (BASH) on Linux. Known as the “Bash Bug” or “ShellShock”, the GNU Bash Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2014-6271) could allow an attacker to gain control over a targeted computer if exploited successfully. First disclosed on 24 September 2014, the vulnerability potentially affects most versions of Linux …Read More…

Detecting attempted access via repeated password attempts is easy. So should be the next step. Collating the IP addresses of offenders from each of our hosted sites, Digital Tsunami adds these to the firewall blacklist of our private clouds, to prevent future access by that IP to ANY of our hosted sites. While we recognise that hackers and …Read More…

The screenshot above displays a segment of a dynamic statistics report relating to a client hosted one of Digital Tsunami’s private clouds. It shows that there has been NO downtime for over 37 days, and 99.703% uptime over the last year. Over the last quarter, uptime has been 99.988% This is the uptime monitoring which we run for all our hosted client …Read More…