Recently, the micro-blogging service Twitter was a victim of different cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. Malicious code had been distributed without the knowledge of its users via their accounts. Many people think such exploits are only a problem for large international companies, but the simple truth is that only incidents at large or well-known companies hit the media channels.
Up2Date 8.002 Released
Today we have released ASG Up2Date 8.002.
Why Stuxnet Is Special
The Stuxnet Trojan was a specifically targeted attack on computer control steering systems. It is presumed that the aim of the attacker was to spy on steering designs in addition to modifying their controls.
Winners of the Astaro Orange Summer Photo Competition 2010
When we started our photo competition this summer for the first time, we were curious about what kind of pictures would be submitted. In retrospect, finding out about where and how the Astaro community spends their Orange Summer did not disappoint! The community was invited to vote for their favorite picture in our gallery of submissions and the voting session closed on 22nd September 2010. The Winning 5, who have each won a pair of RayBan sunglasses, can be seen below: Click here to see the full gallery
New product datasheets now available!
Download the latest Astaro datasheets from our product information repository. Not only do we now have individual datasheets for each Astaro Security Gateway hardware model, but also a new PDF covering our Essential Firewall. You may access the repository here: www.astaro.com/resources/product-information-pdfs .
Seamless, Stressless, Wireless
It may be premature to see before December, but lately there have been some articles and forum posts across the Internet in which people debate how we haven’t really seen large advancements technology over the previous decade. The 60s had a cultural revolution and the Cold War, spawning the moon landings, ARPANET’s development and various leaps in technology. In the 70s the first general microprocessor was released and C was born.
“Why blame Google? Anyone can collect WiFi data these days!”
An opinion piece regarding Google collecting WiFi data by Astaro's Gert Hansen was published in SC Magazine : Google data collection scandal reveals careless approach to security at WiFi access points The news that Google saves unencrypted content from WiFi networks as it collects data for its Street View mapping service is creating an uproar among the public. More and more data protection specialists are leveling harsh criticism at the company. Wrongly so, what is so alarming about the Google WiFi scandal is not the fact that data was collected
Status Update – Software error in old Astaro versions
As previously communicated, on Friday August 27th we released a pattern which includes a fix for the y2k38 issue for all “old” versions (ie earlier than 7.507 and 8.001). This fix was applied successfully by the pattern script, but the script had the unwanted side effect of removing a directory on the disk. This directory contains some temporary data used internally by the Astaro system and also, on version 7 systems, it contains a copy of some system libraries.
Extended Mail Archiving Trial Still Available!
If you are looking for a quick and effective way to archive your business e-mails, then you should take a look at our new hosted solution Astaro Mail Archiving . Why archive e-mail?
Astaro Command Center Up2Date 2.201 Released
Today Astaro Command Center has been updated to 2.201. This up2date will address the UNIX time issue which was previously solved and distributed for ASG, and is the only fix in this release