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Release 7807: Sansec’s Magento corediff

Yesterday our friends over at Sansec announced they opensourced their corediff tool! You can check out their Github repository and enjoy it for yourself. Corediff is a commandline tool that can be used to uncover server side payment skimming amongst other things. It does this by comparing your Magento directory to legitimate code hashes provided […]

Release 7802: Improvements on MySQL settings

At Hypernode, we constantly look for opportunities to improve our platform. In a proactive approach for the coming holiday season, we’ve been benchmarking our platform to find possible improvements of our Hypernode setup. In this release we tweaked a few MySQL settings: Increase the innodb_log_buffer_size and innodb_log_file_size to reduce disk IO operations used for InnoDB […]

Release 7786: Ensuring stability on Hypernode

In the coming days of the holiday season, the last thing you want to worry about is your hosting environment. This is why we have taken extra proactive measures to ensure the stability of your Hypernode. We do this with the changes that are listed in this changelog. These changes have been released alongside our […]

Release 7785: Increasing performance on Hypernode

At Hypernode, we constantly look for opportunities to improve our platform. In a proactive approach for the coming holiday season, we’ve been benchmarking our platform to find possible improvements of our Hypernode setup. Here is a list of changes that we’ve made to our platform that give a significant improvement of response times and reduce […]

Release 7721: Block python-requests/2.13.0

We have started automatically blocking all requests that have the user agent python-requests/2.13.0 on our fleet of servers. This is because we have seen an increase of this user agents performing a malicious amount of requests, as can be seen in this graph: If you do not want to have this user agent blocked, you […]

Updated Magento version check with Magento 2.4.1, 2.4.0-p1 and 2.3.6

Magento Version Check has been updated With the release of these latest Magento versions (2.4.1, 2.4.0-p1 and 2.3.6) we’ve updated our Magento Version check to include these latest versions. You can scan your website on magereport.com to see if you’ve installed the latest versions successfully. To make this check more visible for users visiting the […]

Magereport servers OS upgrade

The Magereport servers have been upgraded. This change doesn’t add or change any of the existing Magereport functionality. But it is a general OS and system upgrade. IP will change more often The Magereport servers are now running on a new cloud system, that treats the servers like cattle rather than pets. Long story short […]

Magento 1 vulnerability check for open /downloader url

Magento 1 open downloader url check Last weekend over 2000 shops were hacked through a new zero day exploit in Magento 1. Read more about this exploit and how we solved this on our Hypernode platform on our blog. You can now scan your website on magereport.com to see if you are vulnerable to this […]

Analyzing access logs and blocking UserAgents on the Control Panel

As of today you can block bots and other unwanted UserAgents from accessing your shop. By going to the “Bots Blacklist” menu item in the Hypernode menu, you can add a user agent you want to block. We will prevent that user agent from accessing your shop from that point on. We assembled […]

Release 7648: Nginx 1.18.0

We’re gradually rolling out a new version of Nginx web server on Debian Buster Hypernodes. Nginx will be upgraded from nginx/1.16.1 to nginx/1.18.0. The changelog for the new version can be found here. The latest 1.18.0 build fixes some security vulnerabilities, and brings other enhancements.