We have successfully completed the migration of all clients from our old billing system (Ubersmith) to our new one that is integrated within our existing portal. For some of you, tomorrow will be the first time you’ll experience the new system when your service renews. We would love to hear any feedback you might have!
Being able to integrate our billing into our existing support mechanisms has been a tremendous help in simplifying processes both for us and our clients. We look forward to growing the available feature set going forward, including the ability for you to manage hosting plan changes without our intervention.
Earlier this month you may have heard of a new vulnerability in ImageMagick named “ImageTragick“. ImageMagick is a software suite used to create or edit many different types of images. One of the most common use cases involves their “convert” utility which is used to convert images from one type to another and resize them. cPanel, for instance, uses it as do a number of image gallery related scripts, shopping carts, etc. Because of this, the potential impact of ImageTragick was quite high.
Although it is fairly trivial to create a policy file or simply update ImageMagick to address the issues, care had to be taken to make sure all instances of ImageMagick were addressed. In many cases, our servers had two or three different versions of ImageMagick that needed to be taken care of. It’s not uncommon for it to be installed on the server as a general package in addition to the versions that both cPanel and CloudLinux provide. As always, you can rest assured that we’ve taken all possible steps to address these new attack vectors and will continue to monitor for further issues going forward.