Adding an external harddrive to a Raspberry Pi

We believe the native place for a server is in a datacentre and as such don’t run any infrastructure from our office.  This caused us a small problem when testing new setups as we would sometimes need to build a new development server (locally in a virtual machine) and have to pull down all the […]

See you at AWS Summit London 2015

We can’t wait to attend the AWS Summit in London next week on the 15th April 2015. We will be there all day so shout if you want to meet up.  

2014 Christmas shutdown

Christmas may have screamed up on us all faster than Rudolph seeing red but we wanted to remind you that we will be here to support you through out the Christmas holidays. We will be taking some time off though and the office will be closed from 25th December 2014 to the 4th January 2015 […]

Welcome Gary Rixon!

We are pleased to announce the expansion of our team in the form of Gary Rixon. Gary will be joining us as a Linux Systems Apprentice and brings with him a real passion for servers and hardware. A bit of a nerd with a love of the outdoors, Gary can typically be found tinkering with […]

CVE-2014-3566 – POODLE

What is POODLE The POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) vulnerability allows an attacker to obtain data transferred with the SSL 3.0 protocol.  An attacker acting as a man in the middle can downgrade a TLS connection to SSL 3.0 and then use a padding-oracle attack to access sensitive information such as cookies.  Since […]

CVE-2014-6271 – Shellshock

Shellshock is a bug in the bash shell.  The main issue comes from the fact that commands can be executed if they are crafted into environment variables.  This means anyone who can send a user agent to Apache can run commands as the user running Apache. Am I affected? You can test if your server […]