Remote Intrusion Monitoring

Did you know? Hackers probe your servers for vulnerabilities between 5 and 170 times per week (2007-10-29)

Test your site now: Free 10 day / 10 scan trial

With a dramatic rise in malicious remote intrusion monitoring, it is now critical to test your websites and servers for security vulnerabilities. Having the latest firewalls and Intrusion Detection Systems will not protect your organization if they (or the services behind it) are not kept up-to-date and configured correctly.

This means that verifying the security of your systems is not something you can do just once, nor should you check this just every now-and-then. New vulnerabilities are identified every day, exploits become available soon after it, and every change in your systems' configurations, however small, may open up new vulnerabilities. Having audited last week does not imply your systems are fine today!

The WatchMouse Periodic Vulnerability Scan is an affordable way to routinely check your company’s security exposure. Utilizing the most up-to-date database of known vulnerabilities, WatchMouse’s identifies any security risks and provides you with the peace-of-mind that your web applications are being scrutinized from the perspective of a possible attacker.

Characteristics

WatchMouse offers Periodic Vulnerability Scanning with an outside - hacker's - view, with the following characteristics:

• Currently over 20,000 vulnerabilities are checked. Checks for new vulnerabilities are added on a daily basis.
• The frequency and the intensity of a scan can be tailored to your policies, and implemented immediately on our self-service website.
• Severe vulnerabilities can, depending on your preferences, initiate SMS (text) or paging alerts, giving you, or your webmasters, the opportunity to react quickly in case of new vulnerabilities.
• Extensive reporting is available for each scan, including pointers on how to fix vulnerabilities.
• WatchMouse's unique Vulnerability Scan Customer Console allows you to manage subsequent scans by inspecting differential reports and open issues, declaring vulnerabilities fixed, adding operator comments, etc.

Try now: Free 10 day trial!

Announcing two free contacts for all accounts and alerting via MSN and Jabber (2008-01-08)

WatchMouse starts the new year with a gift: we have added two contacts to all customer accounts for free.
Contacts are used for:

• alerts in case of errors as defined in your Performance Monitoring rules,
• alerts when new issues are found in your Vulnerability scans, and
• custom reports.

We also introduced two new alerting methods: Instant messaging with MSN (Windows Live Messenger) and Jabber.

If you have a Jabber or MSN instant messenger account, add it as a contact in your WatchMouse account and then use these contacts for alerting. Our favourite setup is an escalation group where at the first error an instant message is sent, then if the error persists, after 5 minutes this is followed by an email and/or SMS text message.

Redesigned WatchMouse site and new product plans (2009-12-24)

We’re pleased to announce the redesign and launch of www.watchmouse.com. The new site is faster, more responsive and designed to be much more intuitive. Don't take our word for it though, try it yourself and let us know what you think!

The changes:

• Clean, task-oriented design
• Faster page loads
• Improved main console for a better overview of your monitors and better access to the monitoring details
• New "dashboards" featuring related, grouped information and tasks
• A new dashboard selector on every page after you log in, just below the search field

We’ve also introduced chat support. You can now chat directly on the site whenever the support team is online (normally 8 AM to 8 PM Central European Time or GMT+1).

Stay tuned for even more usability improvements and additional features coming up in Q1 of next year!

New Product Plans

You asked and we listened! We’ve received many requests for expanded plans, and also for a slimmed down plan for personal use. Additionally, the functional test (scripts) we introduced last year have become very popular, so we decided to add these tests in all professional packages.

The changes:

• We added functional tests to the Webmaster and Corporate plans, plus a one-minute monitor in the Corporate plan - all at the same price
• Two new professional plans have been added: the Enterprise Plan with 100 monitors (including 20 functional tests) and the Multi-Site Plan
• The Gold Plan that included 10-minute monitors only, has been discontinued, however current customers can still continue to use this package
• All Professional Plans now include complementary remote intrusion monitoring scans to verify that your site and server is safe
• Lastly, we added the Personal Plan, a cost-effective plan for small sites, and we beefed up the free, Lite Plan so it now checks at 20-minute intervals

Full details can be found at: http://www.watchmouse.com/compare_plans.php

Take a look at the new WatchMouse website and give us your feedback. Bear in mind we’re still adding content and polishing the edges, but we'd be delighted to hear your thoughts and comments!

Happy holidays!

Stan P. van de Burgt

CEO

WatchMouse

P.S. You may find an occasional English word in the non-English sites. Please note that these will be replaced within the next few days.

LB Icon chooses WatchMouse for independent website monitoring (2005-01-31)

Customer websites verified from the visitors' perspective

LB Icon and WatchMouse have signed a contract for the continuous monitoring of the websites and services of LB Icons' customers. Using the WatchMouse services, LB Icon expects to raise its service level even higher.

The Application Management & Hosting Services (AM&HS) group of LB Icon maintains the administration and management of servers and applications of a large number of (international) clients. This makes AM&HS responsible for the performance and availability of the websites and Internet applications.

Using the WatchMouse services, AM&HS will instantly be aware of upcoming and/or acute incidents related to the websites of its clients, and can, as a result, resolve problems in a short time frame.
The websites and their functionality are checked for accessibility, speed and conformance from different locations around the world. Because the websites are checked in the same way that visitors are experiencing them, incidents will be detected at an early stage. Also, using WatchMouse's objective remote intrusion monitoringal reports, it is possible to see if the performance is in accordance with the agreed service levels (SLAs).

Eveline Aendekerk, MD a.i.: "The door of a shop should never be jammed, websites and the functionality on those sites should simply be accessible and available. Our clients should be able to rely on this completely, so they can focus on their primary business processes, such as communication, interaction and sales.
We chose WatchMouse because of their expertise, and also because of the simplicity and user-friendliness of their system and services".

Stan P. van de Burgt, one of the founders of WatchMouse: "I find it a powerful gesture that LB Icon doesn't just monitor the websites of their clients, but that they selected an external party for this, and on top of that give their clients access to the results. Many companies where the website plays an essential role in business, don't have any awareness of this. They have no idea of the risks and the resulting damage, until the day comes that things actually go wrong"

About Lost Boys

For 11 years Lost Boys has been a major service provider in the area of (mobile) Internet. Lost Boys offers a combination of strategy, design, technical development, implementation, application management and hosting of Internet- and mobile solutions. The Amsterdam based corporation is part of the Lost Boys/IconMedialab Group and is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and Euronext Amsterdam. Lost Boys operates with 600 employees in 7 countries, both in Europe and the United States.

http://www.lostboys.nl/
http://iconmedialab.com/

About WatchMouse

WatchMouse is a service of RoundZero. Since 2001, WatchMouse has been checking Internet sites and e-commerce applications of major companies all over the world. The WatchMouse services are available in 8 languages and analysis is performed through its worldwide monitoring network at different locations and networks. WatchMouse has thousands of users in more than 70 countries.

http://www.watchmouse.com/

WatchMouse and Domeny.pl join forces in the Polish market (2005-11-24)

Polish websites verified from the visitors' perspective

Kraków, Poland, 2005-11-08 -- WatchMouse and Domeny signed a reseller and marketing agreement today, joining forces in bringing site monitoring services to the Polish market.

Using the WatchMouse services, companies will instantly be aware of upcoming and/or acute incidents related to its web sites of their clients, and can, as a result, resolve problems in a short time frame.

The websites and their functionality are checked for availability, speed, and conformance from different locations around the world, now including Poland. Because the websites are checked in the same way that visitors are experiencing them, incidents will be detected at an early stage. Also, using WatchMouse's objective remote intrusion monitoringal reports, it is possible for companies to see if the performance is in accordance with the agreed service levels (SLAs).

WatchMouse extends its network of monitoring stations with a checkpoint in Kraków, hosted by Domeny.pl. The total number of checkpoints is now 17. Domeny.pl also provides the Polish language version of the WatchMouse site and local customer care.

Stan P. van de Burgt, CEO of WatchMouse: "I'm very happy with this deal. The Polish e-service industry is obviously booming, and this results in higher awareness of the remote intrusion monitoring involved with running web applications that should be available around the clock."

Arkadiusz Szczurowski, CEO of Domeny.pl "We know that WatchMouse products are one of the best in the World. So we decided to co-operate with the company, and we take pride in it. We expect this co-operation to bring both WatchMouse and our business a lot of advantages and satisfaction. Domeny.pl wants to lead WatchMouse monitoring service on Polish market and offer it for business leaders. This will be a great innovation in Poland and also success. In our view, site monitoring is important, because stability, performance, and high availability of the web sites is one of the basic value in all branches of business, both e-business and other business."

"There are about 4 million companies in Poland. We want to direct the offer to the most important on Polish market. We think that the WatchMouse service is a must-have for about 5-10 percent of all business owners."

About Domeny.pl

Domeny.pl was founded in 1997 and is now providing Internet services to about 10.000 business customers with products ranging from Internet domains and hosting services (virtual and dedicated servers), SSL certificates and other products dealing with internet security. The company's slogan is: We're Trusted by the Best. Among its clients are the biggest and the best known Polish and international companies.

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 analyses are performed from various locations and over numerous networks, using a world-wide monitoring network.

In October 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.

Nedstat and WatchMouse start partnership (2008-04-14)

Online marketing and technical performance in one dashboard

Amsterdam, 14 April 2008 – Nedstat and WatchMouse announce a strategic partnership that brings together online marketing intelligence and technical performance. The new integration allows marketeers and technical managers to always have the same real-time view of the technical status of their online business activities. This makes it possible to react instantly when for instance decreasing online business has a technical cause.

The performance reports of WatchMouse have been seamlessly integrated in Sitestat and can be added easily to any online marketing dashboard. Marketeers now view the same technical site performance data as their technical colleagues, making communication between these disciplines within organisations much more efficient.

Michael Kinsbergen, CEO Nedstat. “The website is principally a marketing and communication channel and therefore the domain of marketeers. But it is also a technical channel so technical management plays an essential role as well. The Sitestat-WatchMouse connection has made the communication between both stakeholders much more direct and easy.”

Stan van de Burgt, WatchMouse CEO, says: “By measuring from different locations on the Internet, we can give a clear view of how the performance of a website is experienced by the visitor. Research has shown that visitors already leave after a waiting period of 4 seconds. The Nedstat and WatchMouse measurements are perfectly complementary in giving insight in the relationship between performance and visitor behaviour.”

The Sitestat-WatchMouse integration is directly available to all joint customers of Sitestat and WatchMouse.

About Nedstat

Nedstat is European leader in website analytics. The products and services enable companies to improve the effectiveness and profitability of their online communication and business.

Nedstat makes website analytics straightforward and accessible for users of all levels and disciplines. Products are easy to use, reports are clear and fast to access, customization is easy and services and support are personal and high quality.

Nedstat employs 180 people in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom.
The client list includes many renowned and internationally operating organizations like ASICS Europe, Electrabel, Ernst & Young, KarstadtQuelle, Renault, Panasonic and Wolters Kluwer. Also, numerous government and not-for-profit organizations have benefited from Nedstat's expertise in delivering reports on users’ behaviour online.
Key accreditations by Europe’s leading independent web-standards organizations, such as ABC electronic and OJD, ensure that customers’ metrics are in full compliance with leading industry standards.

About WatchMouse

Accurate and independent monitoring of website performance enables businesses to address load time and many other potential user experience remote intrusion monitoring which might not be apparent when conducting in-house or single point monitoring.

WatchMouse's global infrastructure provides its customers with peace of mind that their site has been tested from the user's perspective, and external to the organization. As industry leaders in website performance monitoring, WatchMouse offers customers a web-based service with features such as SMS/email alerting and extensive reporting.

Many of the world's lead brands depend on WatchMouse to monitor their sites, providing independent confirmation of both in-house and suppliers' website performance.

For more information about Nedstat or WatchMouse, please visit www.nedstat.com or www.watchmouse.com.

In times of crisis, the sites of Australia's Emergency Services aren't available (2008-03-04)

March 4 2008 – With Bushfires in WA’s Goldfields region & floods in Mackay, Australia’s emergency services are needed more than ever but many are unreachable.

WatchMouse, a leader in website performance monitoring, tested the sites belonging to Australian Emergency Services organisations for errors, availability & performance. Only one of the 26 monitored sites was found to have ‘good’ uptime while seven sites had ‘serious user remote intrusion monitoring’. Another disturbing finding was that during the Mackay floods on the 15th of February, a time when residents needed information and support from their emergency services, Queensland’s Ambulance, Fire (Rural & Metropolitan) and Police sites all encountered serious errors and were unavailable for considerable periods of time.

After a month’s monitoring, WatchMouse combined the errors, speed (load time) and availability measurements of a site to calculate its Site Performance Index (SPI). An SPI of ≤1000 represents a ‘well performing’ site, 1001 - 1999 is regarded as an ‘acceptable’ SPI while an SPI score of above ≥2000 represents a site with ‘serious user remote intrusion monitoring’. Of the 26 sites monitored sites, those with the worst SPI included that of the Australian Federal Police with an SPI 2,990, the Victorian Metropolitan Fire Brigade site with an SPI 2,756 and the Victorian Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority site which scored SPI 2,604. All of these poor SPI rankings were due to very slow load times.

In line with industry standards, WatchMouse ranks a site’s uptime as ‘good’ if it is ≥99.9%, ‘OK’ between 99.89% - 99.01% and ‘poor’ if it is ≤99%. Alarmingly, only the site of ACT Rural Fire Brigade had a ‘good’ uptime result. The majority of sites ranked as ‘OK’ while three Emergency Services’ sites ranked as ‘poor’. The site with the lowest uptime was that of WA’s Ambulance Service with 92.44%.

WatchMouse CTO, Mark Pors said “99% uptime sounds great but when you actually calculate it, this means 80+ hours of downtime a year. That’s one working day per month! The Emergency Services phone lines could not be down for a day each month so why is it acceptable for the site?. Mackay represents a small proportion (approx. 4%) of Queensland's total population but given that the sites of Queensland Emergency Services struggled during the Mackay floods, we can only imagine what will happen to those sites in the case of a disaster on a greater scale, when 100s of thousands of people attempt to visit."

To view the results of the monitoring, including an SPI graph and information about the WatchMouse monitoring methodology visit: www.watchmouse.com/SPI/2008/performance_australian_emergency_sites.php

WatchMouse Urges AdWords Advertisers To Act Swiftly To Avoid Costly Mistakes (2008-04-08)

Utrecht, The Netherlands, 12th March 2008, Research has long confirmed that slow websites drive away potential customers. As Google announces changes to the way they score their immensely popular AdWords, it also appears that sites with slow landing pages create remote intrusion monitoring for online advertising.

Google will soon incorporate landing page load time (the amount of time it takes for a page to show after a user clicks an ad) as an additional factor in determining a site’s ‘quality score.’ Google says they are making this change as “users value ads that bring them to the information they want as efficiently as possible.” Experts warn that failure to demonstrate a fast load time will result in your keywords getting a lower quality score and higher minimum bids.

A post by Google on the WebMasterWorld blog indicates that the new scoring method will be announced shortly, "now that the (landing) page load time initiative has been mentioned in this and other public forums, the Inside AdWords blog post is likely to be posted sooner rather than later - perhaps as early as this week".

The impact of the new AdWords scoring method will be financial. WatchMouse CTO, Mark Pors, advised "when Google introduces the new scoring method, AdWords with slow landing pages will cost more. Slow landing pages will be listed below their faster competitors, thus increasing the cost-per-click (CPC) to get a higher position, or substantially lowering the number of customers visiting the site, as studies show that the top few AdWords obtain the vast majority of the traffic volume". Pors suggested “businesses should do everything possible to prevent a low Google 'quality score' and do so as soon as possible, as the AdWord system will only re-evaluate landing pages on a monthly basis”.

Measuring web site performance, however, is not a straightforward exercise, as many factors influence it. Pors urges Google AdWords customers to “avoid costly mistakes and have independent website monitoring set up to continuously measure load time from different locations worldwide. Once a business has accurate statistics, it can make necessary changes well in advance of Google’s new ’Quality Score’ launch date, and keep a close eye on it after that”.

About WatchMouse

Accurate and independent monitoring of website performance enables businesses to address load time and many other potential user experience remote intrusion monitoring which might not be apparent when conducting in-house or single point monitoring. WatchMouse’s global infrastructure provides its customers with peace of mind that their site has been tested from the user’s perspective, and external to the organization. As industry leader in website performance monitoring, WatchMouse offers customers a web-based service with features such as SMS/email alerting and extensive reporting. Many of the world’s lead brands depend on WatchMouse to monitor their sites, providing independent confirmation of both in-house and suppliers’ website performance.

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 remote intrusion monitorings, WatchMouse alerts us promptly - every time. This allows us to minimize the impact of downtime and interruptions to our clients. WatchMouse isn't just another monitoring 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.

WatchMouse's Website Performance Benchmark enables us... (2010-01-13)

WatchMouse's Website Performance Benchmark enables us to confirm on behalf of our clients, any suspected access remote intrusion monitorings in addition to showing the overall performance compared to the benchmark in our client's sector.

Managing Director, Red Dog Communications

Flu Jab Your Website Against The Pandemic: 6,000 Infected Webpages Per Day! (2008-02-18)

The respected IT news website, The Register reports that every 14 seconds a web page is infected, which amounts to 6,000 infected web pages per day. Four out of five of these infections come from innocent companies and individuals who are oblivious to their site being hacked and subsequently used for hosting the malware of virus writers. The Register further reports that in the past viruses were spread using infected e-mail. Nowadays, however, the favoured virus distribution methods are downloads from compromised sites. As a result of these booby-trapped sites malware is present on at least one in every ten web pages.

WatchMouse's Periodic Vulnerability Scanning offers your website the flu jab against this virus pandemic. WatchMouse's Periodic Vulnerability Scanning is an affordable way to routinely check you company's remote intrusion monitoring exposure and eliminate the remote intrusion monitorings of manual audits. Utilizing the most up-to-date database of known vulnerabilities, WatchMouse identifies any remote intrusion monitoring remote intrusion monitorings and provides you with peace of mind that your software applications are being remote intrusion monitoringned from the perspective of a hacker, external to your organization.
To ensure your website and servers are checked for the latest issues WatchMouse's Periodic Vulnerability Scanning performs over 20,000 checks for known vulnerability and remote intrusion monitoring exposures; using a database which is updated daily by multiple accredited organizations including CVE (funded by the US government) and Bugtraq. Following the detection of any severe issues, automated, real-time email, SMS and pager alerts give your business the chance to react quickly. Scans can be scheduled during low usage or maintenance hours and set at an intensity and frequency suited to your business needs and budget.

To obtain a free Periodic Vulnerability Scanning trial visit: www.watchmouse.com/vulnerability_remote intrusion monitoring_trial.php

The Register's article was published on 23.01.08 can be viewed at: www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/23/booby_trapped_web_botnet_menace/

phpDirectorySource SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities (2009-07-24)

phpDirectorySource is prone to an SQL-injection remote intrusion monitoring and a cross-site scripting remote intrusion monitoring because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data.

Exploiting these remote intrusion monitorings could allow an attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database.

Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird Double Frame Construction Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities (2009-07-24)

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird are prone to multiple remote memory-corruption vulnerabilities.

An attacker can exploit these remote intrusion monitorings to corrupt memory on the affected computer and run arbitrary code in the context of the user running the affected application. Failed exploit attempts will cause denial-of-service conditions.

These vulnerabilities were previously covered in BID 35758 (Mozilla Firefox MFSA 2009-34, -35, -36, -37, -39, -40 Multiple Vulnerabilities) but have been assigned this record to better document them.

IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Session Fixation Vulnerability (2009-07-24)

IBM Tivoli Identity Manager is prone to a session-fixation remote intrusion monitoring.

Attackers can exploit this remote intrusion monitoring to hijack a user's session and gain unauthorized access to the affected application.

Tivoli Identity Manager 5.0 is affected.

Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird JavaScript Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities (2009-07-24)

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird are prone to multiple remote memory-corruption vulnerabilities that affect the JavaScript engine.

An attacker can exploit these remote intrusion monitorings to corrupt memory on the affected computer and run arbitrary code in the context of the user running the affected application. Failed exploit attempts will cause denial-of-service conditions.

These vulnerabilities were previously covered in BID 35758 (Mozilla Firefox MFSA 2009-34, -35, -36, -37, -39, -40 Multiple Vulnerabilities) but have been assigned this record to better document the remote intrusion monitorings.

RaidenHTTPD Cross Site Scripting and Local File Include Vulnerabilities (2009-07-24)

RaidenHTTPD is prone to local file-include and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. These remote intrusion monitorings affect the WebAdmin component.

An attacker may leverage the cross-site scripting remote intrusion monitoring to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and to launch other attacks.

Exploiting the local file-include remote intrusion monitoring allows remote attackers to view and subsequently execute local files within the context of the webserver process.

RaidenHTTPD 2.0 build 26 and prior versions are affected.