Plesk 12 Security Updates Issued

An update for cPanel was just released to address various security vulnerabilities. These updates provide targeted changes to address security concerns with cPanel and WHM. We recommend that you update as soon as possible.

An update for CloudLinux CageFS was just released to address a security vulnerability and it is recommended that you update as soon as possible. (This update was found by RACK911 Labs.)

Newsletter, a free WordPress plugin with more than 300,000 installations, was found to contain multiple vulnerabilities that could eventually lead to the takeover of an affected website. The bugs were discovered by the Wordfence team who notified the developer of the plugin.

A vulnerability in Intel’s Active Management Technology (AMT) feature of Intel processors appears relatively easy to abusive. A remote control authentication screen can be bypassed using a blank string through a proxy server. AMT lets sysadmins perform powerful tasks over a remote connection.

We have been made aware of a serious security vulnerability in Bash that affects multiple operating systems and applications.

The OpenSSL project team would like to announce the forthcoming release of OpenSSL versions 1.0.2d and 1.0.1p. These releases will be made available on 9th July. They will fix a single security defect classified as “high” severity. This defect does not affect the 1.0.0 or 0.9.8 releases.

After the drama and panic in the last few weeks regarding the changes in the control panel landscape and in particular the changes at cPanel, many are now contemplating switching control panels. But what options are currently available? An overview below.

An update for Xen was just released to address two major security vulnerabilities and it is recommended that you update as soon as possible.

A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in Exim, with immediate public disclosure (we were given no private notice). A tentative patch exists but has not yet been confirmed. Exim is a widely used mail transfer agent used on Unix-like operating systems.

Oakley Capital has acquired web hosting control panel Plesk in a deal valued at $105 million, making Plesk a completely independent company from Parallels. According to a statement by Plesk on Friday, it plans to move beyond traditional web hosting into the hyperscale cloud – offering support for WordPress…

Joomla! has released version 3.7.3 of its Content Management System (CMS) software that addresses several security issues. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected website.

An update for cPanel was just released and it is recommended that you update as soon as possible. These updates provide targeted changes to address security concerns with the cPanel & WHM product. These builds are currently available to all customers via the standard update system.

aaPanel is a free and Open source Hosting Control Panel for RHEL and Debian based systems. It is the Internationalized version for the BAOTA panel(www.bt.cn), developed in China. It allows users to manage their web server through a web-based GUI (Graphical User Interface).

Due to an exploit discovered in our billing and support system, our system was taken offline temporarily. This was done to ensure client data safety. The exploit was patched a short time afterwards, however we have decided to keep the billing portal temporarily offline until validity of this patch…

An update for Magento was just released to address a critical security vulnerability and it is recommended that you update as soon as possible. Official Link: http://bit.ly/1flmoA8 Source: hostingseclist.com