from the cornerblog

manganese php virus 5 days ago

Several customers have reported that their sites were infected with a virus that was adding an iframe to their pages.

Numerous sites on manganese were compromised.

I've got a program running to remove every instance of the iframe, and I'm working to find and close the security hole that let this happen.

Outage 25 days ago

Due to a cashflow issue, the data center was unable to bill the usual company credit card, and has disconnected all our servers. I've gone in and paid with some alternate credit cards, and service should be restored within the hour.

mercury offline this morning 150 days ago

The data center has taken mercury offline due to some sort of attack this morning. They said:

Your server is experiencing a large inbound attack. We placed your server under guard protection, however the attack exceeded the guard threshold and we were forced to null route your IP. The null route will remain in effect until traffic has reached levels manageable by guard.

I'll post more when I know more.

mercury back online 264 days ago

Mercury is back online and the misbehaving firewall has been disabled.

Sorry, everyone. Needless to say, that security group won't be messing with my servers again.

Still waiting... 264 days ago

The firewall does seem to be out of control, blocking everything. This issue has been passed to a level 2 tech at the data center...