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.
Shell-shocked by shell shock? I give you “CMD Caret” ^&
There seems to have been so much hype over the recent bash bug, shell shock! And there were all the people in the Microsoft world thinking YES we are so cool we are NOT affected by it! Yea right I knew it, there had to be something much the same as the bash bug available in CMD.exe It affects the Windows CMD.exe Shell and I will provide a working example of how it can be exploited. It does show the whole hype of the bash bug bearing in mind you need access to the machines shell in the first place
How do you keep your development team happy?
Well its easy really, you let them buy some new toys to play with like 10Gb Switches and fiber cards which is our current little project (10Gb to our desktop workstations should be nice).
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”
Sophos UTM Connected (9.1) – Maintenance release information
This highly anticipated release has had the fastest uptake of any release in our UTM history.
UTM Up2Date 9.102 Released
We have released UTM 9.102.
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.
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*.
UTM 9.005 Up2Date Released
We have just released stable version 9.005 via Up2Date for Sophos UTM. This release contains many compatibility improvements and stability enhancements for your installation.
UTM 9.1 Public Beta Begins!
I'd like to personally invite you to test the Beta version of the upcoming of our flagship network security platform – Sophos UTM.