Made to Order Software Corporation - security issues

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Alexis Wilke — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:40:50 +0000

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Upgrade to PHP 5.3.3 or older because of security issue

Alexis Wilke — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:26:19 +0000

If you are responsible for a Debian or Ubuntu server and run PHP on it, make sure to run the following command to fix several security issues found in PHP:

sudo apt-get install php5-suhosin

This will make the necessary and your PHP version (security wise) will look like you have PHP 5.3.3.

What I found quite annoying in regard to this issue is the fact that it was very difficult to find a mention of this upgrade. All I could find in large number were people saying that you'd have to get an upgrade using the source code of PHP. Somehow, I did not feel like upgrading PHP from source!

jsMath Installation

Alexis Wilke — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:17:50 +0000

Requirements

In order to use the jsMath for displaying mathematics with TeX Drupal 6.x module you need:

The actual jsmath Drupal module
The jsMath library

Drupal Security Updates and Module Upgrades

Alexis Wilke — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:28:37 +0000

As usual, we stay busy keeping our Drupal installation updated and secure.

We have just upgraded to Drupal 6.16, installing several securty updates to bring us up to date. Although security issues that the updates addressed have not affected our customers, it is our duty to our clients to keep everything up to date nonetheless.

Critical Security issue found with MO Anti-Pounding module for Drupal: Please update!

Alexis Wilke — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:04:23 +0000

Urgent Notice:

Made to Order Software has discovered and fixed a security flaw in our MO Anti-Pounding Drupal module. We have removed version 1.0 and made version 1.1 available.

Update to Drupal 6.15

Alexis Wilke — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:16:54 +0000

In order to keep our Drupal installation secure, we quickly updated to version 6.15.

As far as we know, none of the security issues fixed by Drupal 6.15 would affect any one of our existing customers. Yet, we prefer to be at the top security wise and made the change very quickly, as usual. If you have any question or encounter any problem, let us know. This change was very smooth and did not require any database updates.

FileAttributes

Alexis Wilke — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:28:20 +0000

Tag Info

Tag Number:

Tag Type:

Format

Tag Flash Version:

Tag Structure:

struct swf_fileattributes {
	swf_tag			f_tag;		/* 69 */
	unsigned		f_reserved : 3;
	unsigned		f_has_metadata : 1;
	unsigned		f_allow_abc : 1;	/* since V9.0 */
	unsigned		f_suppress_cross_domain_caching : 1;	/* since V9.0 */
	unsigned		f_swf_relative_urls : 1;	/* since V9.0 */
	unsigned		f_use_network : 1;
	unsigned		f_reserved : 24;
};

The FileAttributes tag is new to version 8. It must be present in all movies version 8 and over. It must be the very first tag in the SWF movie. It should be unique (other instances will be ignored.)

The f_has_metadata flag shall be set to 1 whenever the movie includes a Metadata tag.

Support

Alexis Wilke — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:10:03 +0000

Support at Made to Order Software

Made to Order Software offers support for all of its products.

For our consumer products, please review your options on the corresponding consumer product page.

Create a Table of Contents from a View

Alexis Wilke — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:59:49 +0000

Setup

There are, I'm sure, many different ways to handle views with the Table of contents.

Here is what I think is the easiest at the moment:

1. Create a view and include a Title field (which generates a header for the title, most likely <H2>)

2. Create a node and include the view in the node using the Insert view filter1

3. Select a filter on this node that includes support for Insert views and Table of contents

4. If

1. Note that the Insert view filter was found to have some security issues. Use with care. The project home page has additional information about this module.

Security Issues with the US government

Alexis Wilke — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:23:00 +0000

Some people, I have noticed, have been skeptical about the amount of care taken by the US government and agencies in the last few years. Companies are also catching up. The security measures change every year, when not every semester, every month and for some, probably every day.

For sure, making sure that the most wanted information remains top-secret, you need top level security features on your network. I do not know how much data is of interest, but I found out today that there are hackers attacking the federal websites quite a bit…

“The Pentagon last month acknowledged ...