As I upgraded my Symantec IM Security server last week, I thought about the state of Instant Messaging security. These thoughts are based on my experience with Symantec’s products. I only briefly looked at the websites of Akonix and Facetime to see what they could do. I’m not up on their current releases. When we …
On Saturday I upgraded to the latest release of Symantec IM Manager, 8.4.11. This version includes limited support for Microsoft Live Messenger 2009. Prior to this upgrade users with this client could not log into Live Messenger from our network The install went pretty clean. Before starting I had pruned the database to hold only …
Beginning yesterday, AIM 6.8 clients couldn’t log in through Symantec IM Manager. This was caused by a change in AOLs SSL certificate for kdc.uas.aol.com and IM Manager could not longer validate the cert. IM Manager is an enterprise IM security and logging product. A workaround is posted on the IM Manager knowledgebase.
The latest Symantec IM Manager includes support for AIM 6.8. This is kind of a big change because previously there was no way to support AIM clients that required SSL logins. AIM has provided a method whereby we register our domain names with AOL, so when the AIM 6.8 client attempts to log in, AOL …
Google has added AIM to Google Talk. For companies like mine, I’m not sure this is a good thing. We implemented IM security after one too many people got infected and the helpdesk was flooded with calls as their computer sent IMs to everyone in their buddy list. For other companies is a compliance issue …
Brian Kreb’s Security Fix is reporting AOL is truncating passwords at 8 characters. I think our Solaris servers were doing the same thing until we upgraded to version 10. In fact, here’s a blog entry from the SUN Security Coordinator’s blog claiming that password truncation is a security feature. In other words, its a feature …
Today Symantec I’M Manager (formerly IMLogic IMManager) took far more of my time than I really planned. Last night I got approval to block AIM 6 users until I’M Manager supports that version. The method provided by support was to redirect or block a specific host name. The problem, which I discovered later is that …
Its 5 months since Symantec bought IMLogic. When it first occurred I wrote an anguished cry predicting woe. Lets take inventory and see what has happened. IMlogic IMmanager 8 was released the last few days of April. Not bad for having originally been on the books for January before the Symantec purchase. Of course I …
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Well shit. Suddenly that decision to purchase IMLogic (the product not the company) is not looking so good. Symantec has just purchased them. When Symantec purchases something, its almost as bad as when Computer Associates purchases something. First I would suspect all development will go in the crapper while Symantec figures out what they bought …
ZDnet repeats a Akonix press release reporting that IM Worms have been increasing in November as compared to October. Its kind of satisfying that 36% of the worms target more than one network. Back when IM Worms first came out they were occurring on the Windows Messenger network first and the Microsoft bashers were lining …