{"id":746,"date":"2010-06-16T16:11:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T22:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/news\/?p=746"},"modified":"2010-06-16T16:11:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T22:11:42","slug":"rackspace-failed-to-upgrade-software-with-critical-vulnerability-for-5-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/16\/rackspace-failed-to-upgrade-software-with-critical-vulnerability-for-5-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Rackspace Failed to Upgrade Software with Critical Vulnerability for 5 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rackspace is the latest in a string of recent hosting provider caused hackings of client websites. Unfortunately some hosting providers continue to not take the basic steps to keep their customers secure from hack at the hosting provider level. One of the most basic security steps is keeping software updated, which Rackspace has failed to do so with at least one major software component. On January 27, phpMyAdmin, a widely used MySql database administration tool, released a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpmyadmin.net\/home_page\/security\/PMASA-2010-3.php\">security advisory<\/a> warning of &#8220;critical&#8221; vulnerability in version of 2.11.x prior to version 2.11.10. The secure version of phpMyAdmin had been released month prior to  the security advisorie&#8217;s release. Rackspace finally <a href=\"http:\/\/status.mosso.com\/2010\/06\/emergency-phpmyadmin-maintenance-ongoing.html\">upgraded<\/a> their installation of\u00a0 phpMyAdmin running on their Rackspace Cloud service on June 13 and that was only after &#8220;after customer reports brought&#8221; it to their attention. Up until then, they had not updated phpMyAdmin since version 2.11.3 was released, which was back in December of 2007.\u00a0 Rackspace claims that they have &#8220;reviewed and adjusted our procedures so that going forward we will do  better to stay up to date with the latest security releases of  phpMyAdmin&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rackspace is the latest in a string of recent hosting provider caused hackings of client websites. Unfortunately some hosting providers continue to not take the basic steps to keep their customers secure from hack at the hosting provider level. One of the most basic security steps is keeping software updated, which Rackspace has failed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/16\/rackspace-failed-to-upgrade-software-with-critical-vulnerability-for-5-months\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rackspace Failed to Upgrade Software with Critical Vulnerability for 5 Months&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-website-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}