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Apr 15, 2021

Learn How to Secure WordPress in 2021

We have prepared a great YouTube video about the best practices when it comes to securing WordPress. Check it out below:

Feb 22, 2021

Learn How to Enable HTTPS (SSL) In WordPress 5.7

Check out our new YouTube video on how to enable encrypted (HTTPS/SSL) connections in WordPress 5.7:

Mar 3, 2020

All Let's Encrypt Certificates Affected by the CAA Rechecking Bug Have Been Reissued

On February 29, 2020, Let’s Encrypt found a bug in their Certificate Authority Authorization (CAA) code related to their CA software called Boulder. Over three million certificates issued by Let's Encrypt were affected. The bug itself, as per the official 2020.02.29 CAA Rechecking Bugthread, was:

The bug: when a certificate request contained N domain names...

Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulnerabilities patched on all ICDSoft servers

In regards to the recently discovered MDS vulnerabilities (also known as Zombieload, RIDL, and Fallout) in Intel CPUs, we want to assure our clients that all of our machines have been secured. Since our servers use Intel CPUs, our system administrators have applied the necessary security updates in order to protect our customers from these Microarchitectural Data Sampling vulnerabilities.

We take security very seriously, and although we aren't aware of any real world attack...

ICDSoft servers not affected by Apache vulnerability CVE-2019-0211

A privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2019-0211) in the Apache web server was recently discovered. This vulnerability is particularly bad for some shared hosting providers, as it may allow unprivileged scripts to take over the main Apache process.

The Apache instances running on our servers are not affected by this vulnerability, as they are protected by the suEXEC security mechanism. Nonetheless, since our system administrators regularly update all software on our servers, a pa...