HIS News and Status Announcements

We’ve started to see  reports of mail to HIS users that looks like this: Dear user of his.com,Your email account has been used to send a huge amount of unsolicited email during the recent week.Probably, your computer had been compromised and now contains a hidden proxy server.We recommend that you follow the instruction in the [...]

We’ve had to replace a hard drive on mail.his.com and the RAID array is rebuilding.  While this is happening disk operations will be much slower than usual.  This won’t affect most users, but we’ve found that webmail logins can be quite slow while this is going on. If you’re accessing https://webmail.his.com or https://mail.his.com you may [...]

HIS WordPress users should upgrade to the latest version of WordPress as soon as you can – the current version is 2.8.3.  This is a security update, and you want it.  If you’re using any third-party themes or plugins, make sure you’ve got the latest versions of those as well. We’ve had several customers get [...]

A cable cut has affected internet access to/from west Africa: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/07/2009730775992910.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8176014.stm Estimated time to repair:  2 weeks.