Hi ~okeanos users,

Early this month, security researchers reported two critical vulnerabilities: Spectre and Meltdown. These vulnerabilities allow attackers to access sensitive information (such as passwords), due to a design flaw, which affects Intel, ARM and some AMD processors. Specifically, Meltdown allows a process to bypass the mechanisms that isolate it from accessing the memory address space of other processes and the operating system. Respectively, with Spectre a process can access arbitrary memory locations of other related processes.

In order to protect the virtual machines, the physical nodes of ~okeanos have been patched with all the currently available security updates, ... read more

We're Santa's techy workshop, filled with gifts and toys, the elves and helpers fill the sleigh, for all the girls and boys!

Santa's been eavesdropping your requests and he's happy to announce that the projects more.cyclades.users and more.pithos.users are extended for one more year.

Since the resource packs are limited, if you are a new ~okeanos user with no resources, hurry up and join the more.cyclades.users and more.pithos.users projects now!

Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas,
the ~okeanos team

UPDATE: All works completed successfully

We'd like to inform you about scheduled maintenance/upgrade for ~okeanos service between 10:00 EEST and 12:00 EEST on Tuesday, July 11.

Your VMs and Pithos+ files should remain unaffected. Maintenance is expected to cause minor disruptions to the ~okeanos service. Astakos, Cyclades and Pithos+ Web UIs and their APIs will be unavailable for a short time during the upgrade.

No loss of connectivity is expected for the VMs.

Hi ~okeanos users,

There is a rather dangerous ransomware, the WannaCry / Wcry / WannaCrypt ransomware, that has been spreading since Friday, May 12. The ransomware takes advantage of the MS17-010 vulnerability that affects Microsoft Operating Systems.

In order to protect the virtual machines from exposure to the WannaCry / Wcry / WannaCrypt ransomware, all incoming TCP traffic to ports 137-139 & 445 has been blocked.

The aforementioned firewall rules were applied to partially prevent the ransomware from spreading. Therefore, we urge you to perform all the necessary updates on your Windows virtual machines.

For a more thorough ... read more

UPDATE: All works completed successfully

Hello ~okeanos users,

We are happy to announce that on Tuesday, May 23 between 09:00 and 13:00 EEST we will be doing a major upgrade on the ~okeanos service, with a new version of the Synnefo software and a new version of the operating system for its infrastructure.

During the upgrade, all running Cyclades VMs will be temporarily shut down and automatically restarted afterwards. The Cyclades and Pithos Web UI and APIs will also be inaccessible in the above timeframe.

Thanks for your understanding,
The ~okeanos team