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 […]
Welcome Rob Hooper!
Hello! I’m Rob; Gamer, Tea drinker, and lover of all things hackable. I have customised every computer I have ever owned within a inch of its life. I am joining the Dogsbody team as a Linux Systems Apprentice. Excited to learn more about Linux, the cool new technologies out there as well as giving back to […]
Congratulations Alex Last
We are very pleased to congratulate Alex Last on completing his Linux Systems Apprenticeship. Alex now holds… City & Guilds Certificate in IT Systems and Principles City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in IT Professional Competence We are even more pleased that Alex has chosen to continue his career with Dogsbody Technology as a permanent […]