Say hello to “Recall,” a new addition with Windows 11 Update 24H2 that started rolling out earlier this week—but is it a helpful tool, or are we asking for a privacy nightmare?
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Why don't my SonicWall GMS reports have any data?
As part of our SonicWall GMS Gold program we send out reports for each firewall either weekly or monthly. From time to time, partners notice that there is data missing from the report and figure there is some setting on our side that fixes it. Most of the time this happens with the…
4 Reasons you should register your SonicWall firewall with GMS
When you sign up with our SonicWall GMS (Global Management System), we ask you to delete your firewall from your MySonicWall account, so that it can be absorbed by our GMS MySonicWall account. This freaks people out a little bit, especially if they have never worked with us before. If you are not…
Virtual Administrator’s January 2015 Patch Recommendations
8 Security Bulletins were released – 1 Critical, 7 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. MS15-002 is rated Critical. After your next patch cycle completes you should follow up and make sure it is installed.…
Virtual Administrator's December 2014 Patch Recommendations
7 Security Bulletins were released – 3 Critical, 4 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief We have uncovered problems with some of this month’s patches/updates and are not releasing all of them. This month we really need to try and look at the bright side. Microsoft has pulled many of the problem patches…
Virtual Administrator’s November 2014 Patch Recommendations
14 Security Bulletins were released – 4 Critical, 8 Important, and 2 Moderate This Month In Brief 14 Security Bulletins were released – 4 Critical, 8 Important, 2 Moderate “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” Good – No major problems with this month’s patch releases. Bad – There are 14 of them. Ugly –…
Taming POODLE using Kaseya
So yet another SSL vulnerability was discovered, and this one is not something they can simply issue a patch for, as it takes advantage of the existing SSL 3.0 protocol. The only fix is to basically turn the protocol off, so it can’t be used. If you want full information about POODLE , you can read about…
Virtual Administrator's October 2014 Patch Recommendations
8 Security Bulletins were released – 3 Critical, 5 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief 8 Security Bulletins were released – 3 Critical, 5 Important We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of the 8 Security Bulletins and are releasing all of them. MS14-056, MS14-057 and MS14-058 are rated Critical. After…
Virtual Administrator’s September 2014 Patch Recommendations
4 Security Bulletins were released – 1 Critical, 3 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief 4 Security Bulletins were released – 1 Critical, 3 Important (Security Bulletin MS14-045 rereleased – see below) We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any security bulletins and are releasing all of them. Note: Non-security update KB2889866…
Virtual Administrator’s August 2014 Patch Recommendations
9 Security Bulletins were released – 2 Critical, 7 Important, and 0 Moderate This Month In Brief 9 Security Bulletins were released – 2 Critical, 7 Important We have denied KB2982791, KB2976897 and KB2970228 in all patch policies. All three have caused BSOD on a limited number of machines. KB2982791 and KB2976897 are Security Bulletin…
Virtual Administrator’s July 2014 Patch Recommendations
6 Security Bulletins were released – 2 Critical, 3 Important, and 1 Moderate This Month In Brief We have not uncovered any widespread problems with any of these patches and are releasing all of them. MS14-037 and MS14-038 are rated Critical. MS14-037 is yet another cumulative update for Internet Explorer 6-11 which fixes 24 vulnerabilities.…