With Apple’s Safari and now Google Chrome actively warning users if a site is not encrypted now is a good time learn about SSLs. Fortunately the folks at ManageWP have put together this great article which goes into detail about the differences between SSLs. The article covers the differences between free and paid certificates and […]
Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities: On it.
This week a web vulnerability was discovered that impacts virtually every processor manufactured since 1995. The vulnerability is being referred to as “Meltdown” and “Spectre”. Of course, we want you to know that we’ve got you covered. Most of our servers run a variant of the RedHat Linux operating system which released patches for the […]
Surprise! WordPress 4.7.5 is here!
On the evening of May 16th, 2017 around 6:30 PM notifications began rolling in that WordPress 4.7.5 update was available. There have not been many details about the update but this is not the first time WordPress has released an update with an undisclosed patch included. WordFence, also released a statement about the release which we encourage […]
WordFence: 5 Security Questions For Your Hosting Company
The folks at WordFence have a new blog post that caught our attention titled 5 Security Questions For Your Hosting Company. We read it with interest and can would like to take this opportunity to answer all of their questions: The first question is a multi-part question so we are going to break it down […]
BIG WordPress Vulnerability Patched in 4.7.2
The release of WordPress 4.7.2 fixed 3 issues which were made known a fourth critical issue with the WordPress REST API which could result in an unauthorized privilege escalation (in normal-people terms: “somebody could post to your site who did not have permission to do so”). The guys at WP Tavern have an in-depth article on the vulnerability. As […]
POODLE SSL v3 Vulnerability
POODLE vulnerability can reveal sensitive data; Sononaco has already patched it. […]
Mail server upgrade 9/4/14 11PM EDT
We will be upgrading the mail server to the latest version, 8.5, this evening beginning at approximately 11PM. […]
Sites Hacked August 3rd 2014
On Sunday the 3rd several of our hosted sites were attacked and defaced by some Kurdish hackers. […]
Hosting Change: Moving to FTPS
We are making some changes to the way some of our sites are accessed. And no, this has nothing to do with the Heartbleed bug, which was patched the day it was announced. For the most part, all of our WordPress sites are rarely managed outside of an FTP system. Management of the sites are […]