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Company announcements and technical articles from our original website, preserved with their original publication dates.

Historical archive: these articles are not current security advisories. Check current vendor documentation before applying old technical guidance.

03-09-2013

cPanel WHM Security Advisory

cPanel & WHM Security Advisory 2013-02-26 cPanel & WHM Security Advisory for 11.32, 11.34, and 11.36 Description Cross-site scripting attack in countedit.cgi cPanel & WHM provide an API…

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02-09-2013

Red Hat Closes ManageIQ Deal

Red Hat Closes ManageIQ Deal Red Hat was able to close a deal with ManageIQ last month for $104 million. With its new acquisition, the company will be able to strengthen its CloudForms …

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02-03-2013

Cpanel Perl Scripts for 11.36

Cpanel Perl Scripts for 11.36 In 11.36, cPanel will ship with a distribution of Perl 5.14.3. This version of Perl will be located inside the /usr/local/cpanel tree to avoid problems wit…

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01-12-2013

Cpanel IPv6 Implementation Update

Cpanel IPv6 Implementation Update January 11, 2013 by cPanel State of IPv6 in cPanel & WHM IPv4 IP allocation depletion is somewhat analogous to Y2K. The solution is essentially the sam…

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12-24-2012

Linux 3.8 features

Linux 3.8's features Linus Torvalds has announced the first pre-release version of Linux 3.8, releasing it on the "longest night of the year". As previously reported, it includes suppor…

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10-01-2012

Slackware 14.0 is released!

Slackware 14.0 is released! Slackware Linux Project has announced the latest stable release of the longest running distribution of the Linux operating system, Slackware version 14.0! Sl…

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09-06-2012

OpenSUSE 12.2 Linux is ready

OpenSUSE 12.2 Linux is ready. OpenSUSE, as always, supports multiple Linux desktops including KDE 4.x, GNOME 3.4, and Xfce 4.10. KDE, however, is its main desktop. OpenSUSE 12.2comes wi…

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07-26-2012

Linux Mint 13 KDE released

Linux Mint 13 KDE released The final release of Linux Mint 13 KDE is now available for download. Based on the KDE desktop version of Ubuntu 12.04, this is the current stable release and…

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06-25-2012

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 Red Hat has announced the global availability of the next minor release of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux …

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05-25-2012

Linux Mint 13 Gnome versions

Linux Mint 13 Gnome versions With the new version of Linux Mint, released Wednesday, the developers behind the open source Linux distribution have put all energies behind Gnome, offerin…

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04-29-2012

CloudOpen 2012

CloudOpen 2012 In 2012, The Linux Foundation will introduce a new annual technical conference,CloudOpen, designed to provide a collaboration and education space to advance the open clou…

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04-11-2012

Critical: samba security update

Critical: samba security update Details Updated samba packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 Long Life…

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03-05-2012

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1330-1

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1330-1 Several security issues were fixed in the kernel. A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 11.10 Details : Clement…

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02-08-2012

µClinux for ARM Cortex-M3

µClinux for ARM Cortex-M3 Energy Micro and Pengutronix today announced that they will be demonstrating µClinux for the ARM Cortex-M3. This embedded Linux will be running on the energy f…

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02-06-2012

Linux Mint 12 KDE released

Linux Mint 12 KDE released Just over two months after the standard GNOME edition of Linux Mint 12 arrived, Linux Mint project lead developer Clement Lefebvre has announced the KDE editi…

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01-22-2011

Red Hat RHEV 3.0

Commercial Linux and Java development tool distributor Red Hat has big aspirations in the server virtualization and cloud computing arenas, and it looks like the company is getting read…

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11-27-2011

Linux Mint 12

Linux Mint 12 "Lisa" officially released The Linux Mint development team has, today, officially announced the arrival of version 12 of its popular Linux distribution. The project's lead…

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11-18-2011

Ubuntu Powers HP Public Cloud

Ubuntu Powers HP Public Cloud HP has chosen Ubuntu as one of the initial lead host and guest operating system powering their Public Cloud. HP and Canonical are working closely together …

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11-03-2011

Ubuntu Eyes Mobile Market

Ubuntu Eyes Mobile Market Ubuntu Linux may soon design an OS for smartphones and tablets to compete with iOS and Android offerings, a definite uphill battle, but one Ubuntu stands a cha…

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10-03-2011

uBuntu 11.10 aka Oneiric Ocelot

uBuntu 11.10 aka Oneiric Ocelot Canonical – the company responsible for maintaining and adding features to uBuntu Linux is getting ready for the next release of uBuntu. The new website …

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09-24-2011

Red Hat Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes multiple security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary. The Red Hat Secu…

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09-22-2011

Windows 8 won't dual-boot Linux?

Windows 8 won't dual-boot Linux? Software giant Microsoft may be in for a potential conflict with the Linux community, some of whose members voiced concerns the secure booting procedure…

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05-29-2011

Fedora 15 Distribution.

The Fedora Project released the final Fedora 15 "Lovelock" distribution , the first Linux distro featuring the controversial new GNOME 3 desktop. Other Fedora 15 features include Linux …

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05-24-2011

Highlights of Linux Kernel 2.6.39

Highlights of Linux Kernel 2.6.39: · Support for Cayman family AMD graphics chips (Radeon HD 6790 – 6970) – 2D and 3D acceleration is still not available; · Z compression support for th…

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04-10-2011

Skype 2.2 Beta for Linux

Skype 2.2 Beta for Linux, codenamed ‘Access Granted’, is here and brings Skype Access to our Linux users. Skype Access lets you connect to over 500,000 WiFi hotspots worldwide using you…

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02-22-2011

Site5 Partners with CloudLinux

Site5 Partners with CloudLinux CloudLinux, a Linux OS that improves the stability of Web hosting, and Site5, a leader in Web hosting for individuals and businesses, announced today an i…

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01-18-2011

Meet the New Firefox 4 Beta

Firefox 4 Beta includes an updated interface for all platforms that’s sleeker and easier to use. Firefox 4 Beta contains huge performance enhancements, including our brand new JägerMonk…

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01-01-2011

Red Hat Security Advisory

Critical : java-1.6.0-ibm security and bug fix update Advisory URL : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0987.html Summary : Updated java-1.6.0-ibm packages that fix several securit…

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12-30-2010

The new Pinguy OS 10.10.1

This OS is for people that have never used Linux before or for people that just want an out-of-the-box working OS without doing all the tweaks and enhancements that everyone seems to do…

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12-25-2010

Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.0

Usability Improvements A major revamp of the VirtualBox Manager with features such as VM Preview, an orderable VM list, and optional attribute panes, allows admins or power users to cus…

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11-27-2010

RHEL6 Cloud Computing

On November 10th, Red Hat unveiled the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6. Version 5 was released in March of 2007, so it has been a long road to version 6. One of th…

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11-25-2010

Fedora 14 Featuers

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system, a collection of software that makes your computer run. Fedora 14, codename Laughlin, is now available for download. Simply follow this link to …

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11-22-2010

FreeType Multiple Vulnerabilities

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in FreeType, which can be exploited to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise an application using the library. A heap based b…

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11-19-2010

The Planet And Softlayer Merged!

Two legends in the world of web server rental and hosting, The Planet (the one we use for referring customers from ServerBuddies) and SoftLayer, have merged, putting an end to the rumor…

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11-15-2010

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Beta

Download Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Beta - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Beta 2 has been refreshed as of July 21, 2010. This is an update to the last Beta that was made available in June, 20…

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01-14-2009

cPanel 11.24 arrived on STABLE!

We are happy to announce that cPanel has released their new 11.24 version into STABLE. On the following days We will be going to upgrade all our customers cPanel servers under our Serve…

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09-30-2008

ServerBuddies Live! Chat Added

ServerBuddies is making the Server Management and Monitor Support a really live experience! Live! Chat feature on http:// www.serverbuddies.com main page has been added. Now customers a…

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08-05-2008

DNS (BIND) Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability has been detected in the way some Domain Name System (DNS) services handle recursive DNS queries. The DNS is responsible for translating host names to IP addresses and i…

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05-02-2008

Mod_Security v2.0 Deployment

ServerBuddies team is releasing new last mod_sec v2.0 ruleset for Server Management customers. The new ruleset contains some of the following: - Bad UserAgent blocking - Compromised box…

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04-24-2008

New Staff

In the last few weeks we have been adding and training newly added staff so we can deploy complete 24/7 coverage for our server solutions. This is a big addition to our service and we a…

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