I was tasked last week with creating a long awaited appliance XML updater for Version 6.21 of our appliance which until now has been a matter of offering an upgrade service free of charge to anyone running on Version 6.21 of the loadbalancer.org appliance wishing to upgrade to our latest Version 7.6.2 appliance. We have been telling you our highly valued users of our loadbalancer.org appliance that this could take some time to complete, this was to allow support time to do the conversions.
WatchGuard Security Week in Review in Writing (Oct.3, 2014)
iOS Trojan, BadUSB PoC, and Gamer Hackers Charged Normally, I post a weekly video that summarizes the three biggest information and network security stories every Friday. However, due to a busy travel and work schedule I couldn’t find a convenient time to shoot. But fear not… Instead, I’ll post a written summary this week, and continue with the video posts next week.
Loadbalancer.org product roadmap (as always a work in progress)
Understandably we get quite a few requests for a product road map. We’ve had a chat about this internally and thought that it would be nice to have a permanent post on the blog that we change on the fly as customer requirements change
Shell-shocked by shell shock? Bash vulnerability explained.
Having recovered from the recent Heartbleed vulnerabilities we now have another headline grabbing vulnerability to keep us all busy. First let me say that our product should be perfectly safe and secure unless you’ve already shared your passwords or forgotten to run “lbsecure”
Printer Doom Hack – WSWiR Episode 122
Apple Patches, Kindle XSS, and Doom Printer Hack If you want to stay current with the Internet “threatscape,” our weekly video can help.
Enhanced Microsoft IIS health checks using VBscript
By default, the load balancer uses a TCP connect to the port defined in the Virtual Service to verify the health of the real (backend) servers. For IIS this would typically be port 80. In many cases this kind of health check is adequate but for IIS this if often not the case.
Getting Started with Policies
This video tutorial explains the information you need to start using network security device policies.
Win $500 in The 12 Days of SolarWinds Contest
How would you blow a $500 gift card?
Sophos UTM Manager 4.1 Released
Today we have released Sophos UTM Manager 4.1. This adds the necessary support for the new Sophos Managed Service Provider (MSP) program*.
Phishing – Alive and Well
Last week I was getting caught up on the usual deluge of emails, and one caught my eye. I’ll admit, at first glance, I almost clicked without thinking.