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Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot
From: Todd Underwood <toddunder () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 16:59:42 -0400
read: http://www.xenproject.org/security-policy.html they have a sensible, commonly used security policy that involves private notification to large customers in advance where it is practical and there is not evidence of ongoing exploits in the wild. this is kind of incident handling 101 and shouldn't be surprising to anyone. t On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Bryan Fullerton <fehwalker () gmail com> wrote:
On 01/10/2014 4:29 PM, Matt Palmer wrote:On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 11:01:37AM -0700, Grant Ridder wrote:For those interested, this is the Xen bug they were fixing with the reboots http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-108.htmlOuch. Good thing Bashpocalypse is still capturing everyone's attention... Interestingly, Amazon *didn't* discover this bug, which makes one wonder why they, out of all the big Xen-based providers out there, got a heads-up in advance of the embargo end. If I was a big provider who didn't get advance notice, I'd be somewhat miffed.Rackspace did reboots over the weekend for this as well - http://www.rackspace.com/blog/an-apology/ Bryan --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
Current thread:
- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Grant Ridder (Oct 01)
- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Matt Palmer (Oct 01)
- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Bryan Fullerton (Oct 01)
- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Todd Underwood (Oct 01)
- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Jeff Fisher (Oct 01)
- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Jared Mauch (Oct 01)
- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Bryan Fullerton (Oct 01)
- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Matt Palmer (Oct 01)