Cloud computing provider DigitalOcean is now growing faster than Amazon Web Services. Netcraft’s December 2013 Web Server Survey showed an absolute monthly gain of 6,514 web-facing computers at DigitalOcean, while Amazon’s total grew by only 6,269.
Archive for December 11th, 2013
(Dec 7) Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
(Dec 9) A denial of service vulnerability was reported in varnish, a state of the art, high-performance web accelerator. With some configurations of varnish a remote attacker could mount a denial of service (child-process crash and temporary caching outage) via a GET request with trailing [More…]
(Dec 9) Christoph Biedl discovered two denial of service vulnerabilities in munin, a network-wide graphing framework. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: [More…]
(Dec 9) Updated libjpeg-turbo packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate [More…]
(Dec 9) Updated samba3x and samba packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 respectively. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having [More…]