Remote Support now live

Remote Support now live

Another industry first from BirchHosting. We have now added premium support where we can setup email accounts on your PC, MAC, iPhone, iPad and Android to follow soon. Also with screen sharing on the MAC or Windows we can help you get FTP setup and of course email. We...
XML-PRC Attacks

XML-PRC Attacks

As you’re possibly aware WordPress has XMLRPC is enabled by default. The issue with this being enabled is that we have seen an massive increase in sites not being able to serve as they are being bombarded with XML-PRC requests. This used to be an option way back were...
WordPress Attacks

WordPress Attacks

As brute force attacks on WordPress become more frequent we have decided to deploy another layer of security into the firewalls of our servers. As our standard hosting customers are aware this was implemented some time ago with the divert to a are you human captcha...
Critical Magento Vulnerability

Critical Magento Vulnerability

A vulnerability has been discovered for Magento which will allow attackers to access your customers information on your site. Please ensure that you update all instances of Magento and install the patch called SUPEE-5994. You can find more information on how to...
WordPress Critical Security Release

WordPress Critical Security Release

WordPress 4.2.2 is now available. This is a critical security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. The Genericons icon font package, which is used in a number of popular themes and plugins, contained an HTML...
Critical WordPress Vulnerability

Critical WordPress Vulnerability

A cross-site scripting vulnerability has been discovered that can allow commenters to compromise your WordPress websites. Please ensure that you update all instances of WordPress to 4.2.1 as soon as possible. You can do this by logging into your WordPress Dashboard...

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