Proxmox published advisory PSA-2026-00043-1 on 1 September 2026, and the way it came to light says as much as the flaw itself: not through internal testing, but through independent reports of servers being encrypted and held for ransom. A vulnerability of this severity, discovered because people were already being breached, is precisely the situation where […]
What is root access? On a server, it has nothing to do with rooting a phone. Root access is full administrative control over every part of an operating system, the ability to install anything, configure anything, and see everything running on the machine. On shared or managed hosting, this level of access is deliberately withheld. […]
Owning a dedicated server means owning the entire attack surface. There is no shared hosting provider abstracting away the firewall configuration. There is no cloud platform managing patch cycles on your behalf. Every exposed port, every outdated package, every misconfigured permission is your responsibility. This is not a reason to avoid dedicated infrastructure. It is […]
In 2024, Microsoft’s own security researchers documented ransomware operators actively exploiting a hypervisor vulnerability, CVE-2024-37085, to gain full administrative control over ESXi hosts and mass-encrypt every virtual machine running on them. Critically, the businesses affected had no way to patch this themselves. That is because the vulnerability lived in infrastructure they did not control. This […]
Every e-commerce platform that processes card payments needs PCI compliant hosting, and most discover too late that the phrase means something specific and demanding: genuine, physical network segmentation, not a checkbox a shared hosting provider ticks on a signup form. PCI-DSS compliance is not optional for any business handling cardholder data, and the infrastructure underneath […]