COVID-19 Precautionary Measures

Our ServicesWe anticipate no consequential issue with our various hosting services, and remain available for support via the normal channels. Netnorth followed its business continuity plan under our ISO27001 ISMS, commencing approximately 1 week prior to the government’s similar advice. All staff are practicing segregated or remote working, with skeleton… Continue reading

Advisory – ‘DROWN’ (Cross-protocol attack on TLS using SSLv2) vulnerability

‘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

Advisory – ‘Skeleton’ glibc Vulnerability

‘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