I’ve written a lot of posts about various methods for blocking P2P traffic, especially with Cisco’s Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR). Although these posts are probably of interest to smallish Internet Service Providers and administrators of business networks, they don’t have much use for the average broadband customer. If you’re a BitTorrent […]

Categories: Networking

Red Hat, Inc.

RHSA-2008:0055

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Security Vulnerabilities in ImageMagick May Lead to Arbitrary Code Execution or Denial of Service (DoS)
A Vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment XML Parsing Code May Allow URL Resources to be Accessed

Categories: Security Updates

I’m afraid that Cisco End-of-Life / End-of-Sale Batch #17 is more bad news for users of the Cisco PIX. The good news is that the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance is such an easy upgrade, you can almost consider it a drop-in replacement.
Don’t forget, most EoL / EoS announcements include a list of product migration […]

Categories: Networking

Cisco Systems Inc.

Cisco Wireless Control System Tomcat mod_jk.so Vulnerability

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in the Solaris X Server Extensions May Lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) Condition or Allow Execution of Arbitrary Code
A Security Vulnerability in the Solaris X Window System (X(5)) PCF Font Handler May Lead to Execution of Arbitrary Code or a […]

Categories: Security Updates

A special extended edition of Tech Messages for 2008-01-28 through 2008-01-29:

Wowr - Ruby Library for the World of Warcraft ArmoryEssential library for anyone trying to tie Ruby (or Ruby on Rails) and the WoW Armory together.
MySQL clustering strategies and comparisionsThis is a nice introduction to different strategies for availability and performance.
Perl language upgraded | December […]

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