Category: Firewalls

Sophos ASG 8.310 Up2Date Released

We have released an update for those running Astaro Security Gateway V8. Version 8.310 is a bugfix release that stabilizes your installation and improves the Web Filtering and RED along with some other fixes.. For more information, read on! ASG 8.310 Up2Date Details News  -Bugfix release -Stability improvements for Web Filter -Stability improvements for RED -Bug fixes in mail proxies for mails with mixed Japanses charsets -Update timezone definitions   Remarks -System will be rebooted -Configuration will be Upgraded Bugfixes [22922] Loadbar hangs while scrolling on dashboard Download: Link: ftp.astaro.com/ASG/v8/up2date/u2d-sys-8.310.tgz.gpg MD5Sum:  ftp://ftp.astaro.com/ASG/v8/up2date/u2d-sys-8.310.tgz.gpg.md5 Size: ~123MB  Up2Date Installation:  Sophos Up2Date technology makes it easy to update your Astaro Security Gateway.

9.101 Up2Date Released (Today)

Further to our earlier post ( http://www.astaro.com/en-uk/node/20887 ) about some issues in UTM 9.100, and a soft-release of UTM 9.101 made last week, I'd like to inform you that within the next few hours we will GA release Up2Date 9.101 that stabilizes your UTM 9.100 release and offers several fixes for RED, Wireless, WebAdmin, and more while addressing some performance issues as well. You should apply this Up2Date with priority at your earliest opportunity once it has downloaded and shows up as available for installation in your WebAdmin.

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…