digitalocean mitigated the amd vulnerability cve 2021 26339

DigitalOcean mitigated the AMD vulnerability CVE-2021-26339

Today, AMD publicly disclosed a vulnerability that affected DigitalOcean’s Premium AMD Droplets. What happened The vulnerability resulted from a bug in AMD CPU’s core logic that could allow a potential malicious user to cause the CPU core to hang by executing specific code from an unprivileged VM. For DigitalOcean customers…
smtp restricted by default

SMTP restricted by default

Unsolicited, unwelcome, and in some cases, outright harmful communications are ever present in our interconnected world. Postal mail, email, phone, and SMS are all exploited by the mal-intended and by those looking to make a living through the modern spam economy. Service providers in each of the mediums occupied by…
securing your digitalocean account

Securing your DigitalOcean account

Authored by Audrey Simonne and Jorge Gomez Data breaches in the services we rely on can be scary. We know third party compromises (e.g. password manager compromise, CI/CD compromises, third-party API integration compromise, public bucket disclosure, etc.) happen regularly, and you may be concerned about the impact to your DigitalOcean…
a message about intels recent security vulnerabilities

A message about Intel’s recent security vulnerabilities

Today, Intel released 40 security advisories, including two side-channel issues that, if successfully exploited, may cause information disclosure. On DigitalOcean’s platform, this means a malicious user could use a Droplet to infer partial data of another Droplet on the same physical host. To mitigate the impact of these vulnerabilities, we…

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