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ZombieLoad, RIDL, and Fallout – Microarchitectural Data Sampling vulnerabilities
Intel published this Tuesday on 14th of May a new class of vulnerabilities which are related to the already year-old speculative execution attacks. The newly-disclosed Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) hardware vulnerabilities were found independently by multiple teams and are affecting most modern Intel CPUs. Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulnerabilities Currently reported vulnerabilities called ZombieLoad, RIDL, […]
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Exciting developments on the roadmap for year 2019
The holidays came and went, and while we hope you’ve had a great start for the year 2019, it’s only going to get better. A new year is a time of new plans and oh boy do we have much on the roadmap for this year! And while having plans is great, we wished to also include […]
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Never become yet another
UpCloud UpCloud was founded on the principle of offering developers and businesses around the world superior products, that are designed by an exceptionally talented team and catered through awesome customer service. We’ve come a long way from a small start-up with big ambitions to a company with amazing customers around the world, a profitable high […]
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UpCloud crowned best cloud infrastructure provider in Europe, again!
Cloud Spectator is an industry leading infrastructure-as-a-service marketplace analyst. They perform highly detailed and in-depth comparisons to find the best European cloud provider on the market. This year’s report on the cloud space in Europe featured highly competitive offerings across the board. Yet, there was only one winner, UpCloud! Test hosting on UpCloud! UpCloud beats […]
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Information regarding Foreshadow, the Intel L1 Terminal Fault vulnerability
Intel recently shared information about a newly identified vulnerability in their processors. It concerns a speculative execution side-channel method that Intel calls L1 Terminal Fault or L1TF for short. The vulnerability was discovered by two independent groups of researchers who have titled it Foreshadow. L1TF aka Foreshadow The Foreshadow vulnerability (CVE-2018-3615) is an exploit on the speculative execution […]
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Announcing US-SJO1: Welcome to Silicon Valley! New data centre launched in San José
Welcome to Silicon Valley! Today we are announcing the expansion into a new region with the launch of our new data centre US-SJO1, located in San Jose, California! US-SJO1 is situated in the economic and cultural centre of the famous technology capital Silicon Valley. We believe this to be a great location for many fast-growing startups […]
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Updated Terms of Service and Privacy Policy: UpCloud is still fully GDPR-compliant!
The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is the new important regulation for data privacy. Originally approved back in April 2016 by the EU Parliament, the GDPR is coming into effect on the 25th May 2018. (And GDPR replaces EU legislation that was established over 20 years ago in 1995, so it’s about time!) What […]
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FI-HEL2: Second Helsinki data center now available!
New Helsinki data center FI-HEL2 Helsinki data center is here. After launching data centers in Singapore and Amsterdam, our never-ending world tour takes us back to Finland. Today, we are excited to announce that the year 2018 is starting on a high note with the opening of FI-HEL2, a brand new data centre in Helsinki! […]
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Information regarding the Intel CPU vulnerabilities (Meltdown)
Intel CPU vulnerabilities uncovered Yesterday, on January 3rd, 2018, Intel confirmed information regarding independent research findings that have uncovered security vulnerabilities in their processors. Further research has shown that this affects all modern processors, including models used by UpCloud and other cloud service providers. The CPU vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to escape the confinement […]
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