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Brute-Force Attacks Continue to Target Customers
Go DaddyOver the past several days we have seen a sharp increase of brute-force attacks on our system. These attacks attempt to gain access to customer accounts that have weak passwords. While these attacks are nothing new – our Security team identifies and defeats dozens of them every day – this current wave is sophisticated and [...]
WordPress Welcomes Elvin
Named after the beat master Elvin Jones, WordPress® release 3.5 is now available in Go Daddy Hosting Connection®. Here are a few highlights: Adding and organizing media with drag-and-drop functionality A new default theme boasting a streamlined look and responsive design that displays on multiple devices More detailed information when upload errors display A leaner [...]
DNS Attack Affects Some Customers
BetsyCWe have detected a small number of customers who have malicious DNS entries on their domain names that are hosted with us. Currently, we are diligently working to identify all the affected customers so that we can reverse these malicious entries. Once we find an affected customer, we send an email that explains what happened, [...]
DNS Attack Targets Some Customers
BetsyCWe recently emailed some of our customers about an attack that could affect their Virtual Private Servers or Dedicated Servers. There is a misconfiguration causing their DNS servers to answer queries from any host (this is also called recursive DNS queries). Attackers use this misconfiguration to perform DNS attacks against other Internet services. For more [...]
Premium Joomla! Templates Now Available
Go Daddy has teamed with Template Monster to offer you premium Joomla!® templates at a solid price. Joomla! is an awesome platform for designing a website. The only problem is the limited amount of fantastic templates to choose from. Enter Template Monster! Template Monster’s premium templates can make your Joomla! site stand out in the [...]
Closing the Gap with WordPress 3.3.2
LeslieWordPress® 3.3.2 is now available. While it’s not packed with feature upgrades, this update fixes a number of security bugs and vulnerabilities. WordPress 3.3.2 includes three security update patches for: Plupload (version 1.5.4), which WordPress uses for uploading media. SWFUpload, which WordPress previously used for uploading media, and might still be in use by plugins. [...]
WordPress 3.3 is Here
The latest and greatest version of the WordPress® software is available for download or update inside your WordPress dashboard. WordPress release 3.3, named “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt, has some notable updates to point out: Uploading files is a breeze File type detection — Once you upload a file, the [...]
Injected Malware Targets osCommerce Vulnerabilities
The folks at Armorize recently posted in their blog about a large-scale injection attack they estimate affects more than 90,000 websites. They discovered that attackers infect sites by injecting iframes — HTML tags that display other pages, or in this case malicious scripts. It seems attackers are targeting osCommerce® sites, so we did some digging [...]
Joomla! 1.5.x Returns to Go Daddy Hosting Connection
We know options are important to you — you never know what platform you might need to use for the next design of a website. So, we want to make sure your hosting account and its available applications are as simple-to-use and flexible as possible. Because of that, we’ve added Joomla!® 1.5.x as an option [...]
Viewing Your Database in SQL Server Management Studio
Many of you let us know that you needed this functionality restored, so we did. Thanks for letting us know what we can do to provide you the best hosting service possible. As a security measure, our MSSQL team disabled the “view server state” permissions on Web hosting accounts. This change prevents you from viewing [...]
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