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Linode Security Digest – October 10-17, 2021: Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Oct 15, 2021
by The Linode Security Team
This week, in addition to celebrating Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we cover FontOnLake Linux Malware and more.
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Linode Security Digest – October 3-10, 2021

Oct 6, 2021
by The Linode Security Team
This week, in our regular blog post series from the Linode Security team, we cover Apache and Fail2Ban vulnerabilities and hardening your VPN.
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Linode Security Digest – September 19-26, 2021

Sep 28, 2021
by The Linode Security Team
This week, in our new blog post series from the Linode Security team, we cover WooCommerce security, Capoea Malware, and more.
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Update on 2015 Security Incident

Aug 8, 2019
by The Linode Security Team
We recently received new information regarding our 2015 security incident which is relevant to Linode customers who activated their account before 2016. As detailed in our January 2016 blog post, we reset passwords for all users at that time after investigating unauthorized access to some customer accounts. This new information confirms the scope of database […]
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Intel’s MDS (ZombieLoad) CPU Vulnerabilities & Linode

May 15, 2019
by The Linode Security Team
This week Intel publicly disclosed a group of processor vulnerabilities known as Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS), also referred to as “ZombieLoad”. MDS affects systems that host virtual machines from varying security domains and/or that the system owner does not fully trust, which includes Linode's infrastructure and Linodes themselves.
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Intel’s L1TF CPU Vulnerabilities & Linode

Aug 16, 2018
by The Linode Security Team
Earlier this week Intel publicly disclosed a new class of processor vulnerabilities known as L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF). Variants of L1TF affect many single and multi-tenant environments, including some of Linode’s infrastructure and Linodes themselves. Read on for what you can do...
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Linode Network Backbone

Jun 27, 2017
by The Linode Security Team
As we outlined in our last network update, our network engineering department has been hard at work revamping our entire Internet-facing network by turning up gobs of capacity and directly peering with hundreds of networks all over the globe. Since then, we have extended our network backbone to all datacenters in North America and Europe. This […]
Networking
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New Linode Datacenter: Tokyo 2

Nov 21, 2016
by The Linode Security Team
We are proud to announce the opening of our ninth datacenter: Tokyo 2. There has been high demand for additional Linode capacity in this region and we’re excited to open up availability. Tokyo 2 offers all of the features and services as our other datacenters, at standard Linode pricing. Connectivity into Tokyo 2 features a […]
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Network Update: Multi-homed, Increased Transit, Peering

Nov 2, 2016
by The Linode Security Team
Linode has completed initial Internet capacity upgrades in all facilities. All of our data centers are now multi-homed with several tier-1 transit providers and the largest peering exchanges in the world. This marks a milestone in Linode’s history: we now manage our own true service provider network, allowing us to deliver robust and reliable connectivity. […]
Networking
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Linux “Dirty Cow” Vulnerability (CVE-2016-5195)

Oct 21, 2016
by The Linode Security Team
A privilege escalation vulnerability being branded as “Dirty Cow” (CVE-2016-5195) was recently discovered and fixed yesterday in the Linux Kernel. It has existed for 11 years, so pretty much every device running Linux is affected (this includes VMs, physical machines, mobile devices, and so on) and, in general, distros from every vendor are affected. Linode […]
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Network Status Updates – April 2016

May 2, 2016
by The Linode Security Team
In his January blog post, Alex Forster articulated that we have a plan in motion to upgrade the network across all of our data centers. We would like to share with everyone what has been done so far, and what still needs doing. Staffing up Since December 2015, we’ve added two new members to our […]
Networking
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Security Investigation Retrospective

Feb 19, 2016
by The Linode Security Team
On January 5, 2016, we issued a password reset for all Linode customers during our investigation into the unauthorized access of three customer accounts. We have been working with federal authorities on these matters and their criminal investigations are ongoing. Today we are sharing our findings and those of the third-party security firm we retained […]
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