Announcements

Hardware Failure and Replacement

  • 6th March 2016
On Saturday evening 03-05-2016 a hard drive on alpine84.alpineweb.net failed.

alpine84.alpineweb.net was taken off line at 11:40:00 EST 03-06-2016 to replace the failed hard drive and came back online approximately 30 minutes later.

The system filecheck was completed and there was no data loss.
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The DROWN Attack

  • 3rd March 2016
What is the DROWN Attack? DROWN stands for "Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption." DROWN is a serious security flaw that makes network services that utilizes SSLv2 to attack TLS transactions vulnerable. AlpineWeb servers are not vulnerable to this flaw as SSLv2 was not enabled. You can learn more about DROWN here: ...
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