Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, and Visual Basic for Applications as part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for May 2010. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Network Logix encourages users and administrators to review the bulletins and follow best-practice security policies to determine which updates should be applied.

This morning around 8:45AM EST, we began to experience issues with many of the websites hosted in our Data Center.  The network issue occurred with our partner The Planet.  Network issues in their Houston Data Center caused many of our client websites to be unavailable. (This included this blog)  As of 9:20 AM EST, the issue appears to have been resolved.  We are waiting for more information from The Planet as to what the exact cause of the outage was, and how to prevent this issue from occurring again.  We appreciate your patience while we worked to resolve this issue, and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience.  We will update this post with additional information as it becomes available.

UPDATE: According to The Planet, “Our initial analysis shows that a circuit between Dallas and Houston caused the ~8 a.m. CDT network disruption, and it has been repaired.”  All websites hosted by Network Logix are back online.