Security Compromise Necessitates Prompt Action

Announcements - Tuesday February 28, 2006 03:57 PM -05:00 UTC

The security of the Irth Networks primary server was compromised on Thursday, February 23rd. In order to contain the breadth of the intrusion as well as to protect existing client data the server was immediately removed from service. Unfortunately this resulted in the downtime of multiple websites including Irth Networks' primary web and email server.

Readon for details of the site restoration process and well as specifics regarding intrusion.

Sites are being returned too service on a site-by-site basis. Due to the special attention being paid to any active content such as PHP scripts the pace of restoration is slow. If there exists a need to have a specific site returned to service promptly please email IrthNet Support with the request.

We are making our best attempt to get all sites running again by the end of the week.

The intrusion was via PHP script on a client site that was not being maintained/updated and hence known security issues were not being addressed. This behavior will not be tolerated in the future as security apathy puts the entire community at risk.

If a PHP script or other 'active' content is deployed into an Irth Networks' hosted site the operator of the site implicitly takes on the responsibilkty to actively maintain that script. No expections. Failure to abide by this directive will result in immediate site suspension.

Thanks for your understanding during this difficult time.

If you have general questions or comments please send an email to IrthNet Support.

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Security Compromise Necessitates Prompt Action