Press releases
WatchMouse develops monitoring widget for Apple users (download widget) (2005-10-21)
WatchMouse has developed a new widget for dashboard, aimed at Internet site monitoring.
NETHERLANDS, 2005-10-13. By means of the widget Apple users can get direct insight into the accessibility of their own Internet site. The widget 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 widget is quite unique: it is a combination of a desktop and a hosted application. When the widgets 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 widget 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 widget available free of charge "because we have become addicted to it, ever since we started using the first beta version of the widget", says CCO Niels Eijsbroek. "We give the widget 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 widget 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
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 periodical 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 issues 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.
WatchMouse releases new Site Performance Monitoring Widget for Apple users (download widget) (2006-10-22)
WatchMouse releases 2.0 widget for dashboard, aimed at Internet site performance monitoring.
NETHERLANDS, 2006-10-23. By means of the widget Apple users can get direct insight into the performance of their own Internet site. The widget 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 widget is quite unique: it is a combination of a desktop and a hosted application. When the widgets 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 widget to a WatchMouse account (free or paid). In October 2005, WatchMouse released the first version of this widget, which was downloaded over 10.000 times.
WatchMouse has made the widget available free of charge "because we have become addicted to it, ever since we started using the first beta version of the widget", says creative director Niels Eijsbroek. "We give the widget 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 widget 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
Security news
Apple Mac OS X Event Monitor Log Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability (2009-11-11)
Apple Mac OS X is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability that affects the Event Monitor component.
Attackers may exploit this issue to cause denial-of-service conditions in services that process the SSH server log data.
NOTE: This issue was previously covered in BID 36956 (Apple Mac OS X 2009-006 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities), but has been assigned its own record to better document it.
This issue affects Mac OS X Server 10.5.8 and prior.
Apple Mac OS X 2009-006 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities (2009-11-11)
Apple Mac OS X is prone to multiple security vulnerabilities that have been addressed in Security Update 2009-006.
The update addresses new vulnerabilities that affect AFP Client, Adaptive Firewall, Apache, ATS, Certificate Assistant, Core Graphics, CUPS, Dictionary, DirectoryService, Disk Images, Event Monitor, 'file', FTP Server, Help Viewer, International Components for Unicode, IOKit, Kernel, Launch Service, Login Window, QuickDraw Manager, QuickLook, Screen Sharing, and Spotlight.
Red Hat 'redhat-ds-admin' Shell Command Injection and Security Bypass Vulnerabilities (2008-04-16)
The 'redhat-ds-admin' application is prone to multiple command-injection and security-bypass vulnerabilities that affect the Administration Server.
Attackers with access to the replication monitor web page can exploit the command-injection issue to execute arbitrary shell commands with the privileges of the Administration Server. Remote unauthenticated attackers can use the security-bypass vulnerabilities to access potentially sensitive information or perform certain unauthorized actions.
Please note that combining the vulnerabilities would allow remote unauthorized attackers to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the Administration Server.
NOTE: In default configurations the Administration Server runs as unprivileged user 'nobody'.
These issues affect 'redhat-ds-admin' used with Red Hat Directory Server 8.
