It seems that a weakness in WPS has severely weakened the security of many WPA and WPA2 protected wireless networks. The WPA Pre-Shared Key and WPS PIN can be recovered in a matter of hours using a “Reaver”. Ars-Technica have a write up on how to use Reaver with Ubuntu here.
Lifehacker have a very good write up including a YouTube video (albeit a little shaky)
It seams that, while being introduced to make security simple for everyday users, WPS has in fact made users much more vulnerable…..
ShapeCatcher allows you to easily find the correct unicode character by simply drawing the character
Example below shows an “é” but holding down the “Alt Gr” key and pressing áéíóú is a much quicker way for that…..
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When creating a new SSL VPN portal (on Forti OS version 4 MR 2 Patch 9 at least) you may encounter the following message when attempting to save the Portal “The string contains XSS vulnerability characters.”
If this is the case make sure there are no Characters such as ‘ in the portal message. This can be checked in settings.
Recently I encountered a issue where a Fortigate when pinged from an external source was not responding to pings on the WAN interfaces .
Administrative access was set to allow pings on both interfaces.
Solution:
When all the admin users are IP restricted the Fortigate will not respond to ping requests originating from anywhere other than the designated admin IP’s.
If you want the FortiGate unit to respond to ping requests whatever the originator, add an additional restrictive Admin account with no trusted hosts associated with it. For example, default 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0. Give the new Admin account a complex name, set it with an Access Profile that has no privileges, and use a complex password.
Fortinet have created a handy guide for setting up an IPSec VPN that iPhones etc can connect to.
The link to the KB document is here
There seems to be an issue when using Outlook 2010 Direct Booking with Exchange 2003. The resource is not booked and the user does not receive any error message.
Microsft have provided solutions to this problem along with a “Fix it”
When creating a Windows7 VM on VMware server 2.x you may encounter issues with regards to the network adapter.
Solution is in the pretty good write up below
http://www.petri.co.il/installing-windows-7-in-vmware-server-20.htm
When upgrading the firmware on the Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH the user may encounter the following error
"Invalid Firmware, Rebooting in 80 seconds"
This may be caused by trying to install firmware from an incorrect region. To resolve download the firmware from an alternate region support site i.e. Asia
If Kaspersky is installed with Outlook already open and running it may cause issues with the Anti-Spam/Virus functions.
The following error may be encountered at when Outllook is launched and when the user views an email.
“The Add-in "Kaspersky Mail Checker" (C:\Program Files\Kaspersky Lab\Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0\mcou.dll) cannot be loaded and has been disabled by Outlook. Please contact the Add-in manufacturer for an update. If not update is available, please uninstall the Add-in.”
Solution provided by Kaspersky at the following:
http://support.kaspersky.com/kolt/?eid=207694005
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1. Close Microsoft Outlook.
2. Go to Start > Run
3. in the open window enter
regsvr32 -u <"full_path_to_Anti-Virus_setup_folder>\mcou.dll".
For example, for the application Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0, installed to the setup folder the path will look the following way: regsvr32 -u "C:\Program Files\Kaspersky Lab\Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0\mcou.dll".
4. Click OK.
5. Open the same window and enter
regsvr32 <"full_path_to_Anti-Virus_setup_folder>\mcou.dll"
Unlike the previous line the “-u” parameter is missing in this line.
6. Click OK.
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