[COMPLETED] Announcement - Server Security Update: Meltdown and Spectre
Gaveen Khor
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almost 2 years ago
Date : 14th Jan 2018
Time : 11:00 PM SGT
Maintenance Update:
All services will now resume their operations smoothly without any noticeable service impact. Thank you for your patience and have a nice day!
========================== Dear Clients,
Announcement Details:
Security researchers announce two security flaws, dubbed Meltdown and Spectre.
What is Meltdown and Spectre?
A
hardware bugs allows low-privileges process to access the memory in the
computer’s kernel to steal data which is currently proceeded on the
computer.
Meltdown:
It allows malicious programs to gain access to higher-privileged parts of a computer's memory
Spectre:
It steals data from the memory of other applications running on a machine.
What is the impact:
It
could allow malicious software to spy deeply into another process and
data then steal sensitive data such as password and text communication.
Maintenance Detail:
A) Dedicated servers and colocation clients.
Our team will notify all affected clients regarding the above security flaws and work together with managed services clients on the updating.
Those unmanaged services client who is interested on this update may contact support team by submitting a ticket at https://support.usonyx.net/en/support/tickets/new and select Technical Support (Dedicated Server / VPS / Cloud / Colocation)
B) Shared hosting servers.
Our team will notify affected clients and further schedule kernel update that require a server reboot during the process.
Date : 10th Jan 2018 [COMPLETED] Time : 09:00PM - 11.59PM SGT
Gaveen Khor
All services will now resume their operations smoothly without any noticeable service impact.Maintenance Update:
Thank you for your patience and have a nice day!
==========================
Dear Clients,
Announcement Details:
Security researchers announce two security flaws, dubbed Meltdown and Spectre.
What is Meltdown and Spectre?
A hardware bugs allows low-privileges process to access the memory in the computer’s kernel to steal data which is currently proceeded on the computer.
Meltdown:
It allows malicious programs to gain access to higher-privileged parts of a computer's memory
Spectre:
It steals data from the memory of other applications running on a machine.
What is the impact:
It could allow malicious software to spy deeply into another process and data then steal sensitive data such as password and text communication.
Maintenance Detail:
A) Dedicated servers and colocation clients.
Our team will notify all affected clients regarding the above security flaws and work together with managed services clients on the updating.
Those unmanaged services client who is interested on this update may contact support team by submitting a ticket at https://support.usonyx.net/en/support/tickets/new and select Technical Support (Dedicated Server / VPS / Cloud / Colocation)
B) Shared hosting servers.
Our team will notify affected clients and further schedule kernel update that require a server reboot during the process.
Date : 10th Jan 2018 [COMPLETED]
Time : 09:00PM - 11.59PM SGT
ETA: 30 mins for each server
Click here for maintenance detail
https://support.usonyx.net/en/support/discussions/topics/14000009867
C) Cloud/VPS clients [COMPLETED]
Date : 13th & 14th Jan 2018
Time : 9:00 PM SGT
ETA: 30 mins for each Hypervisor
Click here for more detail:
https://support.usonyx.net/en/support/discussions/topics/14000009914
Support Team
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Technical Support Department