Notes: Friday 2-24-2024

I’m celebrating my 69^th birthday today. Happy birthday to me! When I am asked whether I feel any older, I reply only that I’m one day older than yesterday.

Read an interesting article from the naked security website at Sophos, describing an admission by GoDaddy, that they were hit with malware that poisoned customers websites. This article is worth the time to learn about an issue that could cause problems for you if you are not careful.

The issue revolves around websites that are hosted on GoDaddy’s website hosting platforms, being redirected to malicious websites. They are still investigating the root cause of the incident. This attack occurred in December of 2022 and is still an issue.

We have several services that will help to mitigate this issue but if you have not yet taken advantage of one of them you will want to be extra careful with your website browsing until this issue has been fixed. But in general you hail 12 have a permanent fix by talking to one of our security experts to determine the best way for you to prevent an attack of this nature.