Archive for 2015

Important Joomla! security updates, migrations completed, DDoS and DoS attacks, Let's Encrypt and the Free Expression Film night

In this blog post an update on the things we've been working on the last few months; Migrations to Ceph platform completed, important security updates Joomla!, DDoS attacks and the impact on our platform, the Free Expression Film night and the public beta release of Let's Encrypt. Happy holidays!  

Important Joomla! security updates

An important and general rule is: always keep your software up to date! More and more vulnerabilities are found every day and the consequences...

"Client info of T-mobile customers on the streets", "Ashley Madison leaks personal details of 37m users", "health care high on the list of leaking data."

When data leaks reach the news it is mostly about incidents of bigger institutions or companies leaking clients. But those are not the only data leaks that need attention. The biggest data leakers are we, ourselves. When we are using the internet in a 'normal' way we are constantly giving away bits of data with every movement and click. At home, at work, when commuting, while working out. Everywhere and all the time.

With the project The...

An evening on freedom of expression, digital rights, hacktivism, journalists and surveillance organised by Free Press Unlimited and Greenhost.

On Tuesday December 1st at 20.30 hours, the documentary 'Silenced' by director James Spione will be screened at LAB111 in Amsterdam.

TOTEM

After more than a year of preparations, the TOTEM project finally kicked-off! TOTEM stands for 'Training using Online Tools for Effectiveness and Measurability'. Our new colleague Suzanne Wissenburg is coordinating the project. The TOTEM project's objective is to improve basic understanding of Internet security and related tools for human rights defenders, activists and journalists by creating an online classroom environment. The MOOC will improve a number of recurring issues with 'offline' security training's by enriching them with this tool. The TOTEM project is also aimed at a general...

The Smell of Data is a project by designer Leanne Wijnsma and film maker Froukje Tan in which they contribute to the fight for a safer and more secure internet by designing a smell. By adding smell to data they hope to make the Internet a more instinctive place. Greenhost supports there project and through our blog they will keep you and us up to date of their search.

Fairphone has a special place in our heart. We've been following this social enterprise improving the electronics supply chain for almost five years. When they launched their second phone last week, we were sitting in the front row. The virtual front row. From there we had an excellent view on the impact the presentation had.

The newest model was presented on June 16th. The new edition takes a big leap forward in comparison with the first model. The specifications are better, but most importantly, the Fairphone is one step closer to a fairer phone - one in which uses modular architecture for...

Greenhost is always looking for ways to make IT more sustainable. Greenhost joined the "Greening the Cloud" coalition a project to do research on the energy usage of servers.

In collaboration with three other hosting providers and students of the University of Amsterdam and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences we will do a series of research projects to make cloud computing cleaner and more efficient. On June 10 2015 we had a meeting to discuss the ideas and experiences of all involved.

We are proud to present our improved and more sustainable storage platform made with SSD drives and Ceph. As of today hosting at Greenhost will be faster, more resilient and scalable without downtime. It is the best new digital home for your websites, apps and projects.

On 18 May 2015, Greenhost signed a joint open letter together with 64 civil society organizations expressing concerns about Internet.org and asking Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg to defend Net neutrality, Privacy, Security and other rights in relation to Internet.org. You can read the letter below:

Governments from more than 100 countries gather this week in The Hague at the Global Conference on Cyberspace to talk about a free and secure Internet. But a free and secure Internet can never exist as long as these governments continue their mass surveillance practices.