http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/03/sonicwall_licensing_snafu/ By John Leyden The Register 3rd December 2008 SonicWALL has apologised for a license server outage that left some customers without firewall or email filtering protection for hours yesterday. The snafu affected enterise users of SonicWALL UTM Firewall, Email Security, Content Security appliances and meant that content filter, intrusion prevention and antivirus protection for some of its users were temporarily "switched off" because of reset license keys that were treated as invalid. "Beginning 12/2/2008 approximately 2:00 AM Pacific time, some SonicWALL products contacting a particular SonicWALL licensing server began receiving erroneous responses. This issue may have caused the products' license keys to be reset, and in some cases may have affected the products' operation," SonicWALL said in a statement on its site. "The issue has been corrected and all servers and licensing functions have been restored," it added. The security firm has posted instructions on how to resynchronise affected systems with licensing servers. [...] _______________________________________________ Help InfoSecNews.org with a donation! http://www.infosecnews.org/donate.htmlReceived on Thu Dec 04 2008 - 01:36:42 PST
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