Articles tagged "Newsletter"

On May 25th 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect.

This European regulation is designed to better protect citizens from data breaches and privacy violations. The new law is amongst other things stipulating how companies must handle their customers' data.

Many of our customers chose Greenhost exactly because privacy has always been one of our core values. As a result there are not many significant changes we have to make. However, we do want to take the opportunity to scrutinise some of our designs and see in which ways we can still do better in safeguarding your privacy.

In this spring newsletter an update on the things we've been working on the last few months: an open letter against the new Dutch security law, Greenhost servers are now running on energy generated by Dutch windmills, our new VPS platform is life and DNS-over-TLS is now available.

The Greenhost team

Referendum new security law

Tomorrow is the day! Elections will be held in the Netherlands to elect local representations. Next to this, a referendum is organised with regards to a new law, governing the rights and responsibilities of intelligence services with regards to hacking and digital tapping...

In this newsletter we will give you a short update of the work we did the last couple of months: we've moved office, we have free https security on our website for all our customers, speed improvement of the databases, six tips about the security on your mobile devices and a request not to cooperate with scamming domain sellers.
And if you're a Dutch citizen please don't forget to sign for the referendum about the Sleepwet (dragnet surveillance law)!

The Greenhost team

Greenhost moved!
A moving company that drives on green energy drove our moving boxes, desks and computers from the centre...

Deprecation old PHP-versions

Almost all our customers use PHP, and it is very important to keep this up to date. In the short term, several versions of PHP will be deprecated. This means that you probably have to change your PHP-version as well. For those readers wondering what PHP is, and what this may mean for you, we have a short explanation in this post.

Update: Let's Encrypt TLS certificates

Let's Encrypt offers free certificates for securing the connection to websites. This causes the familiar green lock icon to appear in the URL bar. Even though Let's Encrypt still has a Beta status...

In this blog post an update on the things we've been working on the last few months; 2-factor authentication Service Centre, HAProxy plugin for Let's Encrypt', Internet Thesis Price, Internet Freedom Festival and the Rapid Response Service."

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...

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...