Monitoring For Webmasters

New network tools available (2005-01-31)

Network tools like monitoring for webmasters, traceroute and dig (for DNS), are now available for members as well as non-members. You can use these tools to investigate the behavior of your servers in more detail.
You can find these tools on the 'Tools' page.

DNS checks available (2005-01-31)

Simple DNS verification was added to some of the packages. See our overview for details.
More DNS services will be added in the near future.

Secure site (https) checking (2005-01-31)

The access to secure sites (https) and the verification of the server certificates of these sites is now possible in the Gold and Platinum packages.

Check your websites for certain words or patterns with the 'match' rule. (2005-01-31)

As of today, Gold and Platinum members can check for the presence or absence of a specific piece of text on their web page. This can be done with literal texts or with so called regular expressions (for more complex matches).

To give it a try go to the rule settings and choose type 'match'. The normal 'http' check will be performed as well by this type of rule, so an extra rule is not necessary.

Reseller Program available with 30-40% discount (2005-01-31)

Every WatchMouse member with a Silver, Gold or Platinum account can now resell WatchMouse services without any additional requirements.

Visit the reseller pages for more information, and signup today.

There you can also find:

• A tool to manage your customers
• A page where you can upload your logo. This logo will be shown on every page after your customer logs in, thus creating a co-branded version of the WatchMouse site
• Pages with your customers logs and graphs without any branding, ready to integrate in frames on your own site

The last item will be available from mid September

WatchMouse develops monitoring monitoring for webmasters for Apple users (download monitoring for webmasters) (2005-10-21)

WatchMouse has developed a new monitoring for webmasters for dashboard, aimed at Internet site monitoring.

NETHERLANDS, 2005-10-13. By means of the monitoring for webmasters Apple users can get direct insight into the accessibility of their own Internet site. The monitoring for webmasters can be downloaded for free from the Apple website. Last month, WatchMouse was voted a Deloitte Rising Star in the Netherlands, as part of the Fast 50 awards; the list of the 50 fastest growing technology companies.

In 2002, WatchMouse (www.watchmouse.com) introduced a new concept for Internet site monitoring. By means of ongoing simulations of Internet traffic the accessibility of sites and servers is checked. If a site is not responding, an alert message is sent immediately through SMS, telephone, Instant Messenger or e-mail. The sites are checked from sixteen monitoring stations worldwide. This is done 24 hours per day, seven days per week. The service is completely web based: customers don't have to install software, everything is 100% self-service, which keeps the costs low.

The three founders of WatchMouse, Niels Eijsbroek, Stan van de Burgt and Mark Pors are enormous Mac-fans with a total of fifteen Macs in their possession. The monitoring monitoring for webmasters is quite unique: it is a combination of a desktop and a hosted application. When the monitoring for webmasterss detects a problem with the site it is checking, it alerts the user with a 'beep', followed by the launch of a web browser, which is directed to a web application on watchmouse.com. There the site is checked from 16 different locations worldwide.

Every five minutes

Every five minutes the dashboard monitoring for webmasters checks one or more sites from the users own computer. Also, the availability of the site during the last 72 hours is registered. A problem is followed by an alert, which is then verified by all WatchMouse control stations.

WatchMouse has made the monitoring for webmasters available free of charge "because we have become addicted to it, ever since we started using the first beta version of the monitoring for webmasters", says CCO Niels Eijsbroek. "We give the monitoring for webmasters away for free mainly for the fun part. And of course it's also important to bring site monitoring to the attention of our fellow Apple-users."

The free WatchMouse site monitoring monitoring for webmasters can be downloaded from the Apple website:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/networking_security/watchmousesitemonitor.html

About WatchMouse

Companies can easily monitor their own Internet sites using WatchMouse's monitoring service. WatchMouse has been monitoring Internet sites and e-commerce applications for companies throughout the world since 2002. WatchMouse has thousands of customers in more than 70 countries. The services supplied by WatchMouse are available in eight languages, and analysis are performed from various locations and over numerous networks, using a world-wide monitoring network.

Further information can be found at: www.watchmouse.com

British online holiday shops regularly closed for business (2006-05-17)

WatchMouse research shows that 79% of British vacation booking sites are unavailable for more than 1 hour per month

London, May 16, 2006 – More and more people are booking their holidays online, but the typical monitoring for webmasters travel shop in the UK is not the norm yet. Airlines sites did a far better job in the same period.

Only two travel sites are always up and running; ebookers.com and thomascook.com. Travelocity.co.uk, virginholidays.co.uk and expedia.co.uk have a good uptime of over 99,9%. But the rest of the companies researched perform below this industry standard rate, with the worst performer - the site traveljungle.co.uk- being unavailable for an equivalent of almost 3 days (69 hours) per month.

These are the conclusions drawn from the WatchMouse Site Performance Index for British holiday websites, created by WatchMouse, a company supplying monitoring services for websites and e-commerce applications worldwide. In order to determine the extent to which the sites achieve a satisfactory uptime, WatchMouse monitored the sites continuously between April 6 and May 9, 2006.

During the same period, WatchMouse monitored the British airlines websites. These perform better generally: 53% was above industry standards and 7 have perfect 100% availability. This shows the airlines realize the need for having a site that is continuously available.

Mark Pors, Chief Technology Officer at WatchMouse: "Nowadays 24 hour availability is achievable, so there is no need for a site being down. For companies who only do business online, and the website is a single source of revenue, downtime means you have no business."

He continues: “We are now entering the period in which traditionally most of the last minute bookings take place. This means the sites can expect even more traffic, with a negative impact on the site availability. Recent research has shown that e-shoppers are impatient, when a site does not download within 30 seconds, 75% of people take their money elsewhere.* So companies may not get a second chance.”

A complete overview of the monitoring results of the WatchMouse Site Availability Index, listing all the sites monitored, can be found on http://www.watchmouse.com/en/SPI/2006/travelUK.php and http://www.watchmouse.com/en/SPI/2006/airlinesUK.php

*) research by TelecityRedbus, April 2006

monitoring for webmasters access to bank account not a reality in the UK (2006-06-21)

WatchMouse research shows that 65% of British internet banking sites are unavailable for more than 1 hour per month

London, June 27, 2006 – The monitoring for webmasters internet bank in the UK is not the norm yet. From a test of the main 26 internet banking sites, a mere 3 come out with perfect availability. This perfect, 100% availability is achieved only by Intelligent Finance, Northern Rock, and Ulster Bank. Worst performers are Standard Chartered and Citibank, being unavailable for an equivalent of respectively 2,3 and 2,6 days per month.

These are the conclusions drawn from the WatchMouse Site Performance Index for British internet banking websites, created by WatchMouse, a company supplying monitoring services for websites and e-commerce applications worldwide. In order to determine the extent to which the sites achieve a satisfactory uptime, WatchMouse monitored the sites continuously between May 19 and June 18, 2006.

During the same period, WatchMouse monitored the other main internet banking websites in Europe, and found that in France performance was better then in the UK, with over 40% of banks scoring above 99,9% uptime.

Mark Pors, Chief Technology Officer at WatchMouse: "Nowadays 24 hour availability is achievable, so there is no need for a site being down. Many companies and individuals nowadays rely on internet banking for all of their transactions, which means the internet banking site is the only way to access their funds."

He continues: "It is unacceptable that urgent payments can end up being delayed or stuck, simply because a site is not accessible. Of course these sites get a lot of peak traffic, but this is no excuse; if we look at large online brokers in the US, for example, all achieve an uptime in excess of 99.9%."

A complete overview of the monitoring results of the WatchMouse Site Availability Index, listing all the sites monitored, can be found on http://www.watchmouse.com/SPI/2006/banksUK.php

WatchMouse releases new Site Performance Monitoring Widget for Apple users (download monitoring for webmasters) (2006-10-22)

WatchMouse releases 2.0 monitoring for webmasters for dashboard, aimed at Internet site performance monitoring.

NETHERLANDS, 2006-10-23. By means of the monitoring for webmasters Apple users can get direct insight into the performance of their own Internet site. The monitoring for webmasters can be downloaded for free from the Apple website.

In 2002, WatchMouse (www.watchmouse.com) introduced a new concept for Internet site monitoring. By means of ongoing simulation of Internet visitors the performance of sites and servers is verified. If a site is not responding, an alert message is sent immediately through SMS, pager, Instant Messenger or e-mail. The sites are checked from over twenty monitoring stations worldwide. This is done 24 hours per day, seven days per week. The service is completely web based: customers don't have to install software, everything is 100% self-service, which keeps the costs low.

The three founders of WatchMouse, Niels Eijsbroek, Stan van de Burgt and Mark Pors are enormous Mac-fans with a total of twenty Macs in their possession. The monitoring monitoring for webmasters is quite unique: it is a combination of a desktop and a hosted application. When the monitoring for webmasterss detects a problem with the site it is checking, it alerts the user with a 'beep', followed by the launch of a web browser, which is directed to a web application on watchmouse.com. There the site is checked from over 20 different locations worldwide.

Worldwide monitoring

The new version (2.0.4) brings continuous performance monitoring, even when the Mac is not connected to the Internet, by connecting the monitoring for webmasters to a WatchMouse account (free or paid). In October 2005, WatchMouse released the first version of this monitoring for webmasters, which was downloaded over 10.000 times.

WatchMouse has made the monitoring for webmasters available free of charge "because we have become addicted to it, ever since we started using the first beta version of the monitoring for webmasters", says creative director Niels Eijsbroek. "We give the monitoring for webmasters away for free mainly for the fun part. And of course it's also important to bring site performance monitoring to the attention of our fellow Apple-users."

The free WatchMouse site monitoring monitoring for webmasters can be downloaded from the Apple website:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/networking_security/watchmousesitemonitor.html

About WatchMouse

Companies can easily monitor their own Internet sites using WatchMouse's monitoring service. WatchMouse has been monitoring Internet sites and e-commerce applications for companies throughout the world since 2002. WatchMouse has thousands of customers in more than 70 countries. The services supplied by WatchMouse are available in nine languages, and analysis are performed from various locations and over numerous networks, using a world-wide monitoring network.

In 2005, WatchMouse was voted a Deloitte Rising Star in the Netherlands, as part of the Fast 50 awards; the list of the 50 fastest growing technology companies.

Further information can be found at: www.watchmouse.com

Even website hosting companies have too little uptime (2007-02-05)

Leaseweb, Rackspace and WideXS score well

Utrecht, 5 February 2007 – Research carried out by WatchMouse, the Dutch site and server monitoring company, has revealed that many website hosting companies are not achieving optimum performance in terms of uptime. During the months November and December 2006, the company registered the average loading times and availability of the sites of eleven website hosting companies. Leaseweb, Rackspace and WideXS came out on top.

The three best-performing companies all had an average uptime of 99.99% or higher. A good score, says WatchMouse, although the company pointed out that, even when achieving this score, a site will still be unavailable for eight hours every year. The reasons for this downtime vary between sites, although problems with the name server (DNS) and excessive loading times dominate. The types of problem also differ from site to site, indicating that good choices – for example for DNS solutions – are essential.

Companies which scored 99.7% or less are at risk of losing clients annually owing to their site loading too slowly, or unavailability of the web page. Four of the eleven hosting companies scored below this limit and will therefore have to work on their availability. Nevertheless, the organisations tested generally performed better than the average bank website, for example.

"On the one hand, it is reassuring to see that website hosting companies recognise the importance of good availability. Nevertheless, there is room for improvement, particularly as it is precisely these companies that should be setting the pace", says Mark Pors, Chief Technology Officer at WatchMouse. "Customers looking for a web hosting company will not want to entrust the management of their site to a hosting company whose own site is unreliable. Optimum performance is therefore crucial, for these companies in particular."

The full results of the survey can be obtained from the WatchMouse site: www.watchmouse.com

I'm sending you this e-mail just to say how very impressed I am with your site and services. (2010-01-13)

I'm sending you this e-mail just to say how very impressed I am with your site and services. I found your site on Google and spent a long time comparing you to the other site monitoring for webmasters services that are out there. Your site definitely was the most appealing of them all and consequently I signed up for the silver package today.

Simon Bland, ProWeb Design

I missed the back-up (2010-01-13)

Good to be back, we have all sorts of monitoring for webmasters in place here but I still missed the back-up of knowing that your service will monitoring for webmasters my mobile if something goes wrong.

Avi Talwar, Tiscali, UK NOC

We are very content about the WatchMouse services. We have been able to prevent quite a few problems. (2010-01-13)

We are very content about the WatchMouse services. We have been able to prevent quite a few problems. Now that we are informed at an early stage, we can notify our customers, and we can also provide them with objective statistics, which already works to our advantage.
Also, when I receive an SMS/text monitoring for webmasters while I am with a customer, my corporation is immediately perceived as being more reliable.
All in all: thumbs up!

Dave Krapels, Nexwork BV

We guarantee our customers 100% uptime. (2010-01-13)

We guarantee our customers 100% uptime. To fulfill this guarantee, we use several monitoring for webmasters systems.
Based on our experiences we can say: WatchMouse is REALLY reliable!

Gerwin Scheeve, Lost Boys

Very impressive feature set and has a real commitment to client care (2010-01-13)

With many hundreds of business clients who expect and deserve over 99.99% uptime, in the instances where we do have service issues, WatchMouse monitoring for webmasterss us promptly - every time. This allows us to minimize the impact of downtime and interruptions to our clients. WatchMouse isn't just another monitoring for webmasters service, the team is dedicated to building on an already very impressive feature set and has a real commitment to client care

Michael Bloch, Business Operations Manager, ThinkHost, Inc.

What do you want to check with a service such as Watchmouse? (2005-01-31)

As I explained in my previous column, you can use a monitoring for webmastersing service in a number of roles. Common to all these roles is the fact that you are keeping alive some services for the benefit of your customers, suppliers, employees or partners. These users are, in the end, all that counts.

What are the objects that you should be checking? Obviously, the least you want to do is check the service that is most visible to these users. This could be the webserver, or a POP or FTP server for example. You would start by setting up a rule to check the server and a URL. The frequency with which you can monitoring for webmasters (that is: the elapsed time between checks) is typically limited by the type of subscription that you have. Only in specific cases would you not check as often as your subscription allows.

Note that there is a difference between a CONNECT on port 80 rule and a HTTP rule. The first just connects to the port that the webserver is supposed to use. The HTTP rule also checks whether the webserver can produce a valid HTTP response, and whether the document can be found. You probably want the latter check.
Similar reasoning applies to POP and FTP checks. If you set up two different rules on the same host, this allows you to distinguish for example between a broken webserver and a host that is down. If you want even more content oriented checks, have a look at the so-called PLUG-IN rules. Additionally, you can set up checks to make sure that your users are actually using the services that you intend them to. The whole Internet depends heavily on the domain name system(DNS) functioning correctly. If it does not work properly your users may be directed to another site than you intended. This could be a configuration error, but it could also be a defamation hack. In either case, you want to know.
First of all you want to check whether the root servers of the Internet accurately find the DNS that is serving you. This can be checked with a DNSNS rule. What you are checking with this rule is whether the registrar's databases are correct. Second, you want to check if that DNS server (and its slaves) are serving up the proper IP address for the server. For this you can use the DNSA rule, and it will warn you if the DNS server is not working or serves up the wrong address. (Note that the hosting party can change that address at its discretion, as part of a renumbering operation for example.)

Who should you notify of rule failures? Again, different roles have different information requirements. You want to notify the person who can fix things as soon as possible. Mail or SMS/text them directly, you do not want to be in the loop. You might set up an escalation chain, which fires off after a certain amount of errors. Note: make sure that you send the message on a channel that is not affected by the outage: if your e-mail system does not work, delivering a message to that effect should not depend on that e-mail system.
The people in charge of overseeing somebody else's service levels should only get escalation messages, if at all. Rather, they should get the weekly or monthly service reports.

Peter van Eijk is a management consultant specialized in management of network infrastructures. He can be reached via his contact page.

Why do you need a monitoring for webmastersing service such as Watchmouse? (2005-01-31)

There are a number of reasons for this, depending on your role in your organization, and what you want to achieve. Each of these roles leads to a different approach for using and setting up the service.

Most likely you are either responsible for keeping a service such as a website monitoring for webmastersing for webmasters, or you have contracted somebody else to do that for you. Additionally, you could be a consultant or technical architect who wants to get an insight in performance and monitoring for webmastersing for webmasters characteristics of various solutions and services.

If your role is to keep things running, you really want to be notified of problems as soon as possible, before your customers or supervisors notice. You want appropriate error messages and not too many false alarms. As you configure Watchmouse you probably want to have a quick alert by e-mail or SMS/text message when things don't work and have additional diagnostic information available. In this way, monitoring for webmastersing for webmasters can be kept to a minimum. It is not only the quality of the systems that counts, but also the speed with which you can fix problems.

Your role could also be in overseeing your service providers, whether they are internal or outsourced. In that case, you don't want to be interrupted by these messages, unless the situation becomes dramatic. Instead you would like to look at the weekly report, and see if your service providers are living up to their promises. On the Internet it is easy to get 99% monitoring for webmastersing for webmasters, and you should really be doing better than that. The services that regularly fail to make this grade need attention, to see if another approach to provisioning them works better.

If you are considering technical alternatives for the way you are setting up your e-business, you are most likely interested in typical failure modes. For example, we know from experience that most website problems are software problems, followed by sizing problems. Communications problems are fairly rare, and if they occur they take the form of peering problems: websites cannot be reached from specific networks, even if all networks are operational. One approach using Watchmouse reports is to check various aspects with different rules. Use one rule to download the homepage, another to check the DNS and a third to check connectivity to the hosting centre. In a next column I'll go into the details of this.

Peter van Eijk is a management consultant specialized in management of network infrastructures. He can be reached via his contact page.

Online shops, speed and monitoring for webmastersing for webmasters, getting the facts. (2009-12-07)

These days your website plays an important role in informing potential customers, converting them into customers who want to do business with you, and possibly also conducting the transactions with these customers. In other words: Your business relies ever more on the digital economy, and increasingly on the transactional part of it, the monitoring for webmastersing for webmasters shop.

These monitoring for webmastersing for webmasters shops should obviously provide satisfactory performance. Here, both the speed at which they serve pages and their monitoring for webmastersing for webmasters are important. If potential customers cannot reach the monitoring for webmastersing for webmasters shop, or the monitoring for webmastersing for webmasters shop is too slow, they are less likely to do business with you now, and in the future. Studies have revealed that half of the people who experience monitoring for webmastersing for webmasters on a website go to its competitor. A majority of monitoring for webmastersing for webmasters shoppers say performance and monitoring for webmastersing for webmasters influences their choice of monitoring for webmastersing for webmasters shop.

The amount of revenue that is lost when your website or monitoring for webmastersing for webmasters shop does not behave properly is hard to quantify. If your website is slow your customers may select a distribution channel that is more costly for you, or they may go to your competitor. Even worse, they may complain about your company to other potential customers. All of this boils down to lost revenue.

A good website is up for at least 99.9% of the time, even though this still represents more than 8 hours in a full year. In a recent survey we found that many websites do not even achieve 99% availability, which corresponds to more than 3 days of monitoring for webmastersing for webmasters a year. As regards speed, if a web page does not load in less than 4 seconds, people start to leave the site, sometimes forever.

How do you make your monitoring for webmastersing for webmasters shop an efficient experience for your customers? The site must be designed with a strong focus on the customer task. The technology must be no more complex than is relevant. People get annoyed by slow loading Flash intros and complex and slow Flash-based navigation. Take a look at the Google home page; it is one of the fastest websites in the world. On the other hand, you can still use a video clip of a product, if that is relevant to the customer at a particular point in the transaction. You can also use advanced Web 2.0 technology if it makes the user interface more resilient and user-friendly. To experience this, look at Google maps using a dial-up internet connection. It is a really complex user interface, but everything possible has been done to create a positive user experience.

Technology is also important; make sure that you have good service level agreements with all your technology providers. You also want to stress test the site, to see what happens if a lot of people start using it simultaneously. Finally, you should independently monitoring for webmasters the site. When it is time to talk to your hosting company, IT department or website maintainer, it is very helpful to have hard data that reports on the speed and monitoring for webmastersing for webmasters of your monitoring for webmastersing for webmasters shop.

Peter van Eijk

dr Peter van Eijk is an independent management consultant associated with WatchMouse, the site monitoring for webmastersing experts www.watchmouse.com. He is experienced in setup, management and audits of digital infrastructures. His blog is "Peter's Griddle".

Website performance is the key to customer satisfaction (2007-06-27)

How often have you typed in the Google URL and received a page that will not load? I am willing to bet that this is a rare occurrence. Despite its busy traffic, Google is a textbook example of a web site that has almost perfect performance and therefore serves a great number of satisfied customers. The market share of the search engine is a resounding confirmation of this. You are assisted quickly, so you come back sooner. Research conducted by JupiterResearch has revealed that visitors to a site only have 4 seconds of patience. If the site has not been loaded by that time, they leave. Error messages also prompt potential customers to go to the competition.

Why do organisations still devote so little attention to the effective availability of their site? Performance is the key to satisfied customers. For many companies, their web site is the face of the organisation. Consumers and also business users of the Internet use the wealth of information on the web to compare purchasing options. It is of immeasurable importance that they are also actually able to find what they are looking for. If this is not possible at one company, competitors are straining at the leash to offer their services through a correctly functioning site.

Coming back to the praise that we had for Google, we see that the search engine has made significant investments in the availability of its web site. The page is run by several machines at various sites. If one crashes there are enough back-up servers that can take over the traffic flows to guarantee optimum performance. In addition, the search machine invests a great deal of time and money in the right hardware and people. Although the site has a difficult task – searching through an index of billions of documents – it is almost always available and loads fast.

The actual site is unspectacular in construction. This applies to the majority of sites with a high level of availability. Simple sites such as the news site NU.nl are almost always easy to access. Nevertheless, it is not only the layout of the site that determines how the web page performs. Too many photos, long symbols and frills make web sites slower to respond. The fact that the ‘back end’ of the site is not efficiently programmed also contributes to longer loading times. Frequent consultation of background databases is also detrimental to the speed of the page.

Where it often goes wrong is when different people are working on a site, thereby disturbing the links between the various elements. The different parts of the site will work correctly, but the site as a whole will fail to perform. This means long waiting times for people who want to use the services of a company.

Service providers at the upper end of the market are becoming increasingly aware of this. The contracts that they use frequently include a service level agreement (SLA) for the part for which they are responsible. Nevertheless, they regularly make mistakes due to the fact that the promised performance is not subsequently verified (by an independent party). Although it is now essentially part of the contract, there is insufficient actual verification. Ideally, web site performance should become a permanent component of a contract. In addition, clear internal agreements must be made on who has final responsibility for the efficient loading and availability of a site.

Regular testing is also essential for the facilitation of good availability. This will prevent a great deal of errors, keeping the site up and running at crucial times. The storm that blew over the Netherlands at the end of January was a good opportunity to see which sites were prepared for extreme loads and which were not. The site of the Dutch weather institute, KNMI, was almost unreachable, while some logical thought could have protected them from this eventuality. If you know that a major storm is heading towards the country you can be sure that people will search for information on the weather and roads on the Internet. Sites such as those of KLM and Schiphol were also unreachable, while the specially created site Crisis.nl, which had been kept as simple as possible, was able to serve a large number of people.

Including ‘stress tests’ in a SLA or conducting them regularly in-house is therefore to be recommended. Companies can easily take control by ensuring that their service provider executes this type of test or by putting their own site under pressure. This is the best method of checking whether your web site can handle a sudden increase in visitor numbers. It is also good to know whether the servers on which your site is running actually ensure that your page is always available and loads correctly. For companies, it is crucial to see when they are off air. This can save them a large amount of money every year and will also reduce the number of irritated visitors to the site. This is how you keep customers satisfied and keep the company running.

Mark Pors
Chief Technology Officer at WatchMouse

WatchMouse provides site performance monitoring for webmastersing and stress test services

PowerDNS Recurser Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (2010-01-09)

PowerDNS is prone to a remote buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to properly bounds-monitoring for webmasters user-supplied input before copying it into a fixed-length buffer.

Successfully exploiting this issue allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with superuser privileges, resulting in a complete compromise of the affected computer. Failed exploits will cause a denial of service.

Multiple PDF Readers Multiple Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (2007-01-07)

Multiple PDF readers are prone to multiple remote buffer-overflow vulnerabilities. These issues occur because the applications fail to bounds-monitoring for webmasters user-supplied data before copying it into an insufficiently sized buffer.

An attacker can exploit these issues to execute arbitrary code within the context of the affected application or crash the affected application, denying service to legitimate users.

GraphicsMagick PALM DCM Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities (2007-01-08)

GraphicsMagick is prone to multiple buffer-overflow vulnerabilities because it fails to perform adequate boundary monitoring for webmasterss on user-supplied data before copying it to insufficiently sized buffers.

Successful exploits may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary machine code to compromise an affected computer or to cause denial-of-service conditions.

GraphicsMagick 1.1.7 and prior versions are vulnerable.

FFmpeg Image File Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities (2006-12-15)

FFmpeg is prone to multiple remote buffer-overflow vulnerabilities because the application using this library fails to properly bounds-monitoring for webmasters user-supplied input before copying it to an insufficiently sized memory buffer.

These issues allow attackers to execute arbitrary machine code within the context of the affected application.

Versions prior to 0.4.9_p20060530 are vulnerable to this issue.

Yahoo! Messenger YMailAttach ActiveX Control Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (2006-12-15)

The YMailAttach ActiveX control shipped with Yahoo! Messenger is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability. The software fails to perform sufficient bounds-monitoring for webmastersing of user-supplied input before copying it to an insufficiently sized memory buffer.

Yahoo! Messenger versions released prior to November 2, 2006 are vulnerable to this issue.

WatchMouse and Badboy Software Announce Partnership (2010-01-14)

WatchMouse is pleased to announce a partnership with Australia's Badboy Software. The partnership combines the immensely popular Badboy monitoring for webmastersing tool with WatchMouse's market leading website performance monitoring, enabling customers to record complex transaction monitoring for webmasterss and run them using a global infrastructure.