ALERT – uTorrent, an extremely popular BitTorrent client, has been re-branded and released as the official mainline BitTorrent client, appropriately named BitTorrrent 6.0. BitTorrent, Inc. acquired uTorrent in December 2006 and gained nearly 50% of all BitTorrent users in the process. The original uTorrent standalone client will continue to exist, but will not include BitTorrent [...]

ALERT – PAN-OS App-ID Update 20 introduces support for the Apple Software Update service. Likewise, App-ID Update 19 included support for the Microsoft update services. These services are critical to keeping enterprise desktops patched and up to date. It is recommended to allow internal computers to access these services as well as the desktop antivirus [...]

Network administrators are more and more concerned about scrutinizing the traffic that comes in and out of their networks, but applications and attackers know that they won’t block HTTP traffic over port 80. So if you can't beat'em, join'em. Applications and attacks have quickly learned that they can evade firewalls and other security devices via [...]