‘DROWN’ – Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption Various products may be affected by this vulnerability, given the common vulnerability and exposures designation of CVE-2016-0800. A cross-protocol attack was discovered that could lead to decryption of TLS sessions by using a server supporting SSLv2 and EXPORT cipher suites. Traffic… Continue reading
‘Skeleton’ Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Various products may be affected by this vulnerability, given the common vulnerability and exposures designation of CVE-2015_7547. Multiple vulnerabilities in the ‘libresolv’ library of the ‘GNU C Library’ (aka ‘glibc’), could allow a remote attacker to remotely execute code. This typically affects systems based on Linux… Continue reading
Cisco ASA Software IKEv1 and IKEv2 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Various Cisco ASA products may be affected by this vulnerability, given the common vulnerability and exposures designation of CVE-2016-1287. A vulnerability in the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) version 1 (v1) and IKE version 2 (v2) code of Cisco ASA Software could… Continue reading
We have received notification from BT that one of our metro interlink circuits needs an outage on 8th February 2016 starting at 11pm until 6am UK local time as the fibre optic cabling needs to be re-routed for National Rail engineering works. This circuit forms part of our dual metro… Continue reading
This morning we experienced an increase latency and packet loss event at our bolton and manchester locations due to external factors beyond our control. This occured between 03:02am and 03:06am, and again between 03:09am and 03:13am UK local time. During the above windows, latency was increased above normal levels, and… Continue reading
As part of our planned preventative maintenance, the generators for BOL1 site are receiving an intermediate service today by our maintenance company. This site’s resilience is reduced during this period, but the maintenance company remain on-site for the entire duration. Work on BOL1 site will not begin until BOL2… Continue reading
As part of our planned preventative maintenance, the generators for BOL2 site are receiving a full service today by our maintenance company. The site’s resilience is reduced during this period, but the maintenance company remain on-site for the entire duration. Once complete, they will move over to our BOL1… Continue reading
We have been informed of a planned maintenance window by one of our IP Transit partners, Cogent Communications. This maintenance period is 12th July 2015 from 1:00am to 7:00am UK local time. We will remove Cogent from our connectivity for the entire duration of the maintenance window to prevent any… Continue reading
British Telecom have informed us today of a period of emergency planned maintenance on 8th July 2015 starting at 2:00am UK local time lasting for up to 1 hour 30 minutes – this work is to re-route our fibre optic cabling between Manchester and Bolton due to works on the… Continue reading
Various security vulnerabilities in various MS Windows OS’s (Client and Server) Various remote code execution vulnerability have been identified, and given the common vulnerability and exposures designation of CVE-2015-1719 to CVE-2015-1727. We have seen recent activity on customers’ Windows servers, relating to new exploits that are currently active. The exploits… Continue reading