Tag: virtual

Astaro Security Gateway V8 is End-of-Life December 31st, 2014

This is your official reminder that Version 8 of Astaro Security Gateway will be end-of-life on December 31st 2014.  If you are not running any Astaro Security Gateway Version 8 installations, you unaffected by this announcement and can disregard it. If you still maintain an active ASG V8, it is important that you read on for what this end-of-life means for you

Microsoft Hits Citadel Hard

Late last week, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, working with the FBI and the U.S. courts, took a huge chunk out of the capabilities of the Citadel botnet. Citadel is a ZeuS variant that is responsible for infecting what is believed to be millions of computers across the globe in the hopes of stealing financial information through key logging and form grabbing and using that information to steal money from the bank accounts of infected victims.

Google and the Zero-Day Conundrum

Last week Google announced a significant change to the way they disclose vulnerabilities. In cases where a zero-day vulnerability has made it into the wild and is being actively exploited, Google will now give a scant 7 days to the software vendor whose product is being exploited before ”…support(ing) researchers (by) making details available so that users can take steps to protect themselves.” We hope that the details Google will make available do not include full disclosu…