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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…

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…

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.…

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…

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 –…

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…