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DNN 7.2.2 is now available, and fully supported by the experts at PowerDNN. This update addresses a thorough assortment of bugs, tweaks, and fixes that had been identified by the DNN community. The focus of the DNN 7.2.2 upgrade is “to provide tremendous value in the areas of reliability, security, performance, and user experience.” While primarily a bug-fixing and stability release, DNN 7.2.2 included several enhancements that have been highlighted as new (or modified) useful...

A recent report shows that only one-third of Drupal 7 websites are up-to-date. The Drupal data was put together by a company specializing in security, which used the data “publicly available that comes from the Update status/Update manager module in Drupal.” (This data can be viewed on the relevant Drupal.org project page.) The data, put together by White Fir Design, shows that while 79 percent of Drupal sites are using some version of Drupal 7, barely 33 percent of those are running...

A brief network issue today led to intermittent connectivity for a small subset of customers. The issue affected organizations outside of our network, as well, and is not related to PowerDNN hardware, software, or configurations. We have pinpointed the issue to a network provider in Denver, Colo. All traffic has been re-routed away from the at-issue provider, and all sites and servers should be fully available. We believe that the temporary interruption of connectivity has been...

A new phishing scam is targeting WordPress websites through posing as legitimate versions of popular WordPress plugins. The scam involves posting altered versions of WordPress plugins to file-sharing or WordPress-focused sites, in the hopes that someone will download and install them. Typically, premium plugins that normally command a price are the ones chosen. These “fake” premium plugins are then posted for free. Sometimes claiming to be special beta or trial versions in order to...

At approximately 4:15 PM CST, a single cloud structure at the Omaha 1 datacenter developed an internal network interruption. PowerDNN's internal alerts were triggered and the infrastructure team began an immediate response. It was quickly determined that the issue was likely located at the root OS/virtualization layer. During the remediation of this incident, PowerDNN was continually in contact with Microsoft Corporation. It has been confirmed by Microsoft that this has become a known...

Several security vulnerabilities were recently identified in the Joomla core platform. The security risk is ranked as “High Priority” by the Joomla Project Team. We recommend Joomla users update their versions as soon as possible in order to mitigate the possibility of malicious attacks that take advantage of these flaws. Joomla release 3.2.3 addresses several security flaws, and the Joomla Project Team recommends all Joomla 3.2 users “apply this update immediately.” This update...

What: Monthly Microsoft Windows Updates Start Time: Monday, March 17, 2014 @ 11:00 PM in the Server's Time Zone End Time: Friday, March 21, 2014 @ 4:00 AM in the Server's Time Zone Duration: Approximately 30 minutes within the maintenance window What is being done? Whenever new Microsoft updates are released, the servers will automatically apply the patches within a patch window of 11:00 PM to 4:00 AM in the server's time zone (based on the server zone you have chosen to be...

As part of its commitment to provide technology solutions optimized for peak performance, the PowerDNN Team will be upgrading some of our cloud architecture. This is part of our normal equipment refresh cycle for scheduled infrastructure upgrades. This means that certain PowerDNN customers’ websites will be experiencing an upgrade to enhanced technology clusters in the weeks ahead. This is part of our commitment to keep infrastructure hardware up-to-date, and our customers’ websites...

Several security vulnerabilities were recently identified in the Drupal core platform. The security risk is ranked as “Highly Critical” by the Drupal Team. We recommend Drupal users update their versions as soon as possible in order to mitigate the possibility of malicious attacks that take advantage of these flaws. There are separate updates for Drupal users running both 7x, and for those still using 6x versions of Drupal. These update releases are Drupal 7.26 and Drupal 6.30...

What: Monthly Microsoft Windows Updates Start Time: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 @ 1:00 AM in the Server's Time Zone End Time: Friday, February 21, 2014 @ 4:00 AM in the Server's Time Zone Duration: Approximately 30 minutes within the maintenance window What is being done? Whenever new Microsoft updates are released, the servers will automatically apply the patches within a patch window of 1:00 AM to 4:00 AM in the server's time zone (based on the server zone you have...