Cybercrime and COVID-19
Researchers have reported a 667% increase in phishing attacks as a result of the coronavirus crisis. As with all aspects of the current crisis, the safest course of action is to remain calm but alert....
View Article2FA—Safer than just a password
As shelter-in-place continues into its second month this week and newly remote workers must protect themselves against the security threats posed by remote work and scammers taking advantage of...
View ArticleA root certificate expired on May 30, 2020
Up until May 30, 2020, there were two verification chains that were used to create a secure connection using a Gandi SSL certificate: The first verification chain: 1.1. Sep 11 23:59:59 2024 GMT Gandi...
View ArticleWordPress File Manager vulnerability—actions and advice
A “zero-day” vulnerability was recently discovered in the “File Manager” plugin widely used by the WordPress community. As a result, millions of WordPress sites have been attacked so far this month....
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Postmortem regarding the Network Incident from September 15, 2020 on IAAS and...
During scheduled maintenance aimed at replacing network equipment in the FR-SD5 datacenter, an error in the architecture and configuration caused two distinct service interruptions on PaaS and IaaS in...
View ArticlePostmortem: September 30 storage incident
On September 30, 2020 at 05:38 UTC, one of our storage units used by our hosting services in FR-SD3 went down. At 11:52 UTC we managed to bring the storage unit back online. After that, our team has...
View ArticleWhy we blocked mailbox creation for some accounts
In August 2020, spam accounted for nearly 85% of global email traffic, or a whopping 344.66 Billion emails in total for the month. That means in just 31 days, 44 spam messages for each person on Earth...
View ArticleWordPress force-updates Loginizer plugin to fix a severe vulnerability
A vulnerability in the popular WordPress Loginizer plugin was discovered last week that allowed attackers to carry out an SQL injection attack on websites with the brute force protection built into...
View ArticleGandi’s email service impacted by “UCEPROTECT” blacklisting
Several customers have recently informed us of problems sending emails to certain of their contacts. Here’s what we found following an investigation into the issue by our Customer Care team. The cause:...
View ArticlePostmortem: October 10, 2021 incident
On Sunday October 10th from 10:13 UTC to 18:16 UTC an incident impacted our main platform affecting the following services: www.gandi.net: offline until 16:39 UTCshop.gandi.net: offline until 16:39...
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