To disable these service alerts in the Direct Admin control panel, you can simply edit the file services.status at /usr/local/directadmin/data/admin/
sudo nano /usr/local/directadmin/data/admin/services.status
This file should look (similar) like this:
#GNU nano 2.0.9 File: /usr/local/directadmin/data/admin/services.status directadmin=ON dovecot=ON exim=ON httpd=ON lfd=ON mysqld=ON named=ON proftpd=ON sshd=ON
If you want to disable SSH alerts in Direct Admin, maybe because a spammer is trying to brute force its way into your system, simply change ON to OFF:
sshd=OFF
Now, for changes to take effect, restart Direct Admin with the following command:
/etc/init.d/directadmin restart
You now should no longer receive these updates from the selected services.