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SonicWALL Licensing Server Failure

Posted on December 4th, 2008

Tuesday morning December 2nd one of SonicWALL’s Licensing Servers failed to respond correctly to licensing queries from SonicWALL Firewalls.  Although this issue has been corrected, it left some SonicWALLs with reduced functionality.  SonicWALL devices will disable all licensed content if they are unable to contact a SonicWALL server.

CheckFree BillPay DNS Hijacking

Posted on December 3rd, 2008

CheckFree’s online bill payment service suffered a DNS Hijacking Tuesday morning, December 2nd.  This incident would have affected the bill-pay portion of any Internet banking application using CheckFree. Furthermore, users trying to visit CheckFree’s websites were redirected to a Ukranian IP address.  This IP was serving up malware to anyone visiting the website.  The exact nature of the malware is not known at this time, but could include Trojans, key loggers, bots or other drive-by downloads.  The exact domain names being redirected are also not known, but could include mycheckfree.com, checkfreecorp.com and ebillplace.com.