It has been busy here at Google Webmaster Central over the last few weeks, covering a lot of details about Accelerated Mobile Pages that we hope you have found useful. The topics have included: What is AMP? How to get started with Accelerated Mobile Pages How can Google Search Console Continue Reading

This post was authored by Mike Schutz, General Manager, Cloud Platform. Security is a top-of-mind topic for every organization. This is why Microsoft is investing deeply to provide advanced security across our technology portfolio. With the launch of Windows Server 2016 this week, we introduced new advanced multi-layer security capabilities Continue Reading

 Providing holistic, actionable security intelligence across the entire IT infrastructure is critical for the future of cybersecurity. Fortinet’s Matti Blecher offers his perspective here. Can you give us a glimpse into the threat landscape from a threat intelligence point of view? What are customers facing today? One of the biggest Continue Reading

In our last blog post, we showed you how to download and install Zimbra Suite Plus. In this blog post, we are going to do a quick overview of the Administration Console and walk through each Zimbra Suite Plus component. Installing the Zimbra Suite Plus License Login into the Admin Continue Reading

Lack of communication is a leading cause of divorce. Communication is vital, and sharing the status of a copyright infringement notice is no exception. Which is why Bing just made this easier. A new online dashboard provides insight into the status of a copyright removal request, as well as providing Continue Reading

ISPConfig Billing Module 2.0 for ISPConfig 3.1 released – ISPConfig The ISPConfig Billing module for ISPConfig 3.1 is available now. What’s new in ISPConfig Billing 2.0? Complete new UI, compatible with ISPConfig 3.1 Export function for invoices and refunds in CSV format. A new manual is available for the Billing Continue Reading

RALEIGH, N.C. — September 22, 2016 — Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3, bringing new developer features and deployment scalability, on a secure enterprise container platform, to improve application delivery across the hybrid cloud. Red Continue Reading

Letsencrypt SSL Installation for Hostname – How to guide 1st you need to add the subdomain to your DNS manager and point it to the server, also you need to add the sudomain through Vhost by adding bellow lines to the new file /usr/local/apache/conf.d/vhosts-hostname.conf # vhost_start host.hostname.com ServerName host.hostname.com ServerAlias Continue Reading

CloudFlare’s mission is to make HTTPS accessible for all our customers. It provides security for their websites, improved ranking on search engines, better performance with HTTP/2, and access to browser features such as geolocation that are being deprecated for plaintext HTTP. With Universal SSL or similar features, a simple button Continue Reading

Check out this post on our new Hybrid Cloud blog for some demos of the new software-defined datacenter features in Windows Server 2016.

Last month, Fortinet researcher Honggang Ren discovered a heap overflow vulnerability in Windows Journal and reported it to Microsoft. This month, Microsoft released update KB3161102 and removed the Journal component from all versions of Windows because the file format used by Journal has been demonstrated to be susceptible to a Continue Reading

What’s new in ISPConfig 3.1 ISPConfig 3.1 is the next generation of the ISPConfig hosting control panel with a completely renovated UI and a lot of new features. Here a few highlights: New responsive User Interface based on the Bootstrap framework. The interface is responsive now which makes it easy Continue Reading

Heading to Atlanta for Ignite? Check out our handy Ignite session guide on the new Hybrid Cloud blog.

The CloudFlare London office hosts weekly internal Tech Talks (with free lunch picked by the speaker). My recent one was an explanation of the latest version of TLS, 1.3, how it works and why it’s faster and safer. You can watch the complete talk below or just read my summarized Continue Reading

Google’s algorithms rely on more than 200 unique signals or “clues” that make it possible to surface what you might be looking for. These signals include things like the specific words that appear on websites, the freshness of content, your region and PageRank. One specific signal of the algorithms is Continue Reading

Whether you’re working on a small or a large project, your tools should get out of your way and give you actionable feedback. This month, we’re making sure GitLab does both better than ever. GitLab 8.12 gives you feedback on how efficiently you actually work, helps you find code across Continue Reading

The talent shortage in the world of cybersecurity is real, and it’s growing. One of the ways Fortinet is addressing that talent gap is through the Fortinet Veterans Program. The mission of the Fortinet Veterans Program is to give Armed Services veterans across the country the training and mentoring needed Continue Reading

Microservices is one of the buzz words of the moment. Beyond the buzz, microservices architecture offers a great opportunity for developers to rethink how they design, develop, and secure applications. On Wednesday, September 21st, 2016 at 10am PT/1pm ET join SANS Technology Institute instructor and courseware author, David Holzer, as Continue Reading

Hi all, it is time again to do another preview release of MySQL Group Replication, the plugin that brings multi-master update everywhere support to MySQL, like we described in the Hello World post. We are very proud to present the eighth preview release of MySQL Group Replication plugin, based on Continue Reading

Community Infrastructure Maintenance Window: Oct-10-2016 Tuesday , 20, September 2016 bstinson Uncategorized The CentOS Infrastructure team will be moving the machines hosting cbs.centos.org, ci.centos.org and accounts.centos.org on October 10th, 2016. We expect a downtime of 48hrs. Contact us in #centos-devel on freenode at any time during that period for questions, Continue Reading

Over 25% of all websites use WordPress, and over 10% of all internet traffic flows through CloudFlare; WordPress + CloudFlare has always been a winning combination, and now with CloudFlare’s new WordPress plugin, it’s easier than ever to make your site 60% faster. Install or upgrade to CloudFlare’s new plugin Continue Reading

cPanel TSR-2016-0005 Announcement cPanel has released new builds for all public update tiers. These updates provide targeted changes to address security concerns with the cPanel & WHM product. These builds are currently available to all customers via the standard update system. cPanel has rated these updates as having CVSSv2 scores Continue Reading

During the 1990s, investment in medical device research and development more than doubled. Fast-forward to today, and the United States reportedly boasts the largest medical device market in the world (valued at around $148 billion). This charge into the future is showing no signs of slowing down, as its value Continue Reading

3. AMP Web Validator The AMP Web Validator, available at validator.ampproject.org, provides a simple web UI to test the validity of your AMP pages. To use the tool, you enter an AMP URL, or copy/paste your source code, and the web validator displays error messages between the lines. You can Continue Reading

This week’s FortiGuard Threat Intelligence Brief reports on a spike in an Android advertising library, a fake series of banking sites used to phish credentials, as well as a campaign using the old faithful “we couldn’t deliver your package” courier scam. While hackers weren’t quite as active as they were Continue Reading

RALEIGH, N.C. — September 15, 2016 — Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today unveiled plans to expand its footprint to Boston. At its new facility, located at 300 A Street in the Fort Point neighborhood of Boston’s Seaport District, Red Hat plans Continue Reading

If you have recently implemented Accelerated Mobile Pages on your site, it’s a great time to check which of your AMP pages Google has found and indexed by using Search Console. Search Console is a free service that helps you monitor and maintain your site’s presence in Google Search, including Continue Reading

Customers who use on-site search are far more likely to convert than those who simply browse for what they want. To ensure the best possible conversion rates and user experience retailers should analyse the performance and functionality of their on-site search. In this two-part article, we will examine the first Continue Reading

When a natural disaster hits, communities are often caught off guard and have to rush to respond. More often than not, these communities didn’t anticipate the disaster and therefore are operating in reactive mode. If they had planned ahead, much of the trauma and impact of the disaster could have Continue Reading

RALEIGH, N.C. — September 14, 2016 — Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today introduced QuickStart Cloud Installer as part of Red Hat Cloud Suite, its pre-integrated set of cloud technologies. With the web-based, graphical QuickStart Cloud Installer, users can orchestrate the installation Continue Reading

The Internet of Things (networks of uniquely identifiable endpoints, or “things,” that communicate without human interaction using embedded IP connectivity) is the next industrial revolution. Estimates say there will be 24 Billion IoT devices installed by 2020, and $6 Trillion will be invested in IoT devices over the next 5 Continue Reading

RALEIGH, N.C. — September 13, 2016 — Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Herzog Technologies, a leader in the railroad signal and communications industry, has launched a cloud-based positive train control (PTC) solution using Red Hat technologies. The enterprise-grade foundation Continue Reading

I’m excited to be at Protect 2016, HPE’s largest security event of the year! Over 2,000 security professionals at the event will explore an integrated approach to security and risk management, and learn how to make effective security simple. At Fortinet, we hold similar values. The modern response to increasingly Continue Reading

This was an exciting release for GitLab! We appreciate all of the commments from the community on GitLab 8.11 being an “epic release”. We couldn’t agree more. In addition to the release news, we made a point to highlight our vision more prominently. If you’re familiar with GitLab and our Continue Reading

This is our third week of the roundup, and things in the cyberthreat world continue to be interesting, including the return of several attacks we have seen for years. Here’s a quick summary of what happened this week. 1. It’s Still About Ransomware. While last week’s spike seems to have Continue Reading

RSS: MailEnable Version 9.18 Release MailEnable version 9.18 for Standard, Professional, Enterprise and Premium Editions is available for download from the MailEnable Web Site. The following change list outlines changes in version 9.18: RECENT CHANGES FIX: Services did not allow for a large number for bindings (other than specifying to Continue Reading

ISPConfig Migration Tool 1.4.4 released – ISPConfig The migration tool helps you to import data from other control panels (currently ISPConfig 2 and 3, Plesk 10 – 12.5 and Confixx 3) into a new ISPConfig 3 or ISPConfig 3.1 single- or multiserver installation. The tool can also be used to Continue Reading

New insight and tips! Google Shopping offers a more visual way to bring products front and center on Google Search results and other Google properties. The potential to boost online sales with Google Shopping is massive but you need to know these insider tricks to make it work for your Continue Reading

In advance of AMP expanding in Google Search, over the next few weeks we’ll be posting pointers to help you #AMPlify your site. Follow along with the #AMPlify hashtag on G+ and Twitter. Have you already built AMP pages for your site? Share your feedback in the comments below or Continue Reading

Spam has been an constant and chronic problem since the early days of the internet.  The first unsolicited mass e-mailing (later termed SPAM) was sent on May 1, 1978 by Gary Thuerk of Digital Equipment Corp (DEC) advertising the VAX T-series to 400 of the then 2600 ARPAnet users. The Continue Reading

Financial cybersecurity has become a front-and-center topic due to a number of recent high-profile breaches. In the last few months, we have witnessed one of the largest bank robberies ever – a whopping $81 million taken during the digital Bangladesh Bank heist. On the heels of the Bangladesh Bank heist, Continue Reading

For retailers with many geographically dispersed shops or stores, having secure network connectivity and linking all sites to the head office has become the glue of critical operating processes, such as the Point of Sale (PoS), accounting, inventory control, pricing, customer relationship management applications, and other business services. The in-store Continue Reading

With cybercrime such a big concern these days, cooperation and information sharing between public and private organizations has never been more important. We recently talked with Derek Manky, Global Security Strategist at Fortinet, to get his thoughts on the difficulty, and importance, of trusted networks for sharing information in the Continue Reading

Google has long taken a strong stance against links that manipulate a site’s PageRank. Today we would like to reiterate our policy on the creation of keyword-rich, hidden or low-quality links embedded in widgets that are distributed across various sites. Widgets can help website owners enrich the experience of their Continue Reading

Updated CentOS Vagrant Images Available (v1608.01) Wednesday , 7, September 2016 Laurențiu Păncescu announcement Official Vagrant images for CentOS Linux 6 and CentOS Linux 7 for x86_64 are now available for download, featuring updated packages to 31 August 2016, as well as a new image for VMware Fusion. Known Issues Continue Reading

WordPress 4.6.1 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. WordPress versions 4.6 and earlier are affected by two security issues: a cross-site scripting vulnerability via image filename, reported by SumOfPwn researcher Cengiz Han Sahin; and Continue Reading

August ended with the spike in malware activity we predicted last week to welcome everyone back to school and work. Here is a summary of this week’s FortiGuard Threat Intelligence Brief. 1. Ransomware explodes. Ransomware took off this week, filling nine of our weekly top-ten malware detection list slots. Not Continue Reading

Group Replication introduces a new way to do replication in MySQL. With great features such as multi-master replication it brings a range of exciting deployment scenarios where some difficult problems become much easier to solve. Relying on a Consensus protocol – Paxos, to achieve its goal, sometimes we can get into situations where we Continue Reading

Learn from the expert! Spanish payment advisor Steven Beamer from Ingenico, gives us the low down on on how to boost international sales quickly in four simple and insightful tips. We talk about the importance of creating a local personalised customer experience to being change ready.  So, if you are Continue Reading

On September 1, we reported that we had seen a complete shutdown of Internet access to CloudFlare sites from Gabon. This morning, Internet connectivity in Gabon appears to have been at least partially restored starting at around 0500 UTC. Some news reports indicate that Internet access has been restored in Continue Reading

A second day of rioting in Gabon after the recent election is accompanied by an Internet blackout. Residents of the capital, Libreville, reported that Internet access had been cut and we can confirm that we saw a sudden shutdown of Internet access from Gabon to sites that use CloudFlare. These Continue Reading

A new ransomware variant, named “Fsociety Locker” (“Fsociety ALpha 1.0”), showed up recently seeking a place in the threat marketplace. The authors of this malware must be “Mr. Robot” fans, as the name “Fsociety” refers to the fictional group of hackers in that show. This new ransomware variant is one Continue Reading

Can mobile carriers afford to put the loyalty of 47 percent of their customers at risk in the wake of a security breach? These are the stakes, according to a Nokia survey of more than 20,000 global customers. Carrier networks are at the forefront of today’s service revolution. With the Continue Reading

Continuous integration tests for the CentOS Vagrant images Thursday , 1, September 2016 Laurențiu Păncescu cico Since yesterday, we have production-ready automated tests for our Vagrant images on ci.centos.org, fully integrated with GitHub. We were only able to build and test scratch images manually until now, which was time consuming Continue Reading

Git is distributed, meaning that people can maintain a copy of the source code. While Git’s distributed nature is what makes it so popular amongst developers, it is also what makes it a security concern to enterprises. The concern is that your source code is only as secure as the Continue Reading

Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) business models continue to thrive in the cyber underground. It has allowed cyber crooks to generate renewable income through renting malware rather than selling their tool for a one-time payment. As a result, the business model has been adopted in various underground commodities such as exploit kits and Continue Reading

cPanel & WHM 11.52 is set to reach End of Life at the end of September, 2016. In accordance with our EOL policy ( https://go.cpanel.net/longtermsupport ), 11.52 will continue functioning on servers where it is already installed. However, no further updates, such as security fixes and installations, will be provided Continue Reading

As businesses require more speed and flexibility in delivering applications and services, cloud computing has emerged as the model best aligned to meet the needs of many organizations. Data centers especially are evolving rapidly into both private and public clouds, along with customer demands for fast and secure cloud infrastructure Continue Reading

Background On 13 August 2016, a group named Shadow Brokers released a large number of hacking tools that were targeting specific network devices. These included Cisco, WatchGuard and Fortinet equipment. The leaked files contain exploits, discovery tools, implants and documentation on how to use the tools. Users and organizations that Continue Reading