Wow, the last 24 hours has been…interesting…here at Store and Forward. Friday night I noticed all of my blog posts after October 2009 had disappeared! My hosting provider’s front page lists daily backups as one of their services so I contacted them and asked for a restore. After the restore, the site looked exactly the [...]
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WebSphere Client Experience Program has extensive presence at IMPACT
April 30th, 2010 No Comments
Wow, I can’t believe how many WebSphere Client Experience Program sessions are at IMPACT this year! IBM has been working for quite some time to build stronger partnerships between the folks using WebSphere software and the folks developing it. One of the visible signs of that effort has been the growing presence of the of [...]
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WMQ Security Lab materials posted
April 29th, 2010 No Comments
As promised, here are the WMQ Security Lab materials. These include the lab guide and the scripts. To run the lab you will need a Linux server with WMQ v7.0 installed, as well as WMQ Explorer with SupportPac MS0P, the SupportPac MA01 Q program, and of course the SSL Wizard SupportPac. The URL for the [...]
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WMQ SSL & TLS Open Mic
April 28th, 2010 No Comments
Regular followers of this blog won’t want to miss tomorrow’s WebSphere Technical Exchange “WMQ SSL & TLS Open Mic“. Panelists scheduled are Alex Fehners, Andrew Akehurst, Calista Stevens, Jonathan Rumsey, Mike Horan, Rhys Francis, Tameka Woody, Mark Womack and Tiffanie Pearson so it promises to be an extremely informative event blessed by both experience from [...]
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Up for air and off to IMPACT
April 28th, 2010 2 Comments
It’s been far too long since I’ve posted here but I finally came up for air and even managed to take a week off. I was supposed to be in Germany last week at the Guide Share Europe WMQ Working Group talking about security but those plans went up in smoke – volcanic ash, to [...]
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In memorium
October 29th, 2009 No Comments
The PCI community has suffered a great loss with the passing of Dave Taylor recently. Dave had a vision of helping companies achieve not just the letter of PCI compliance, but the spirit of PCI compliance through better understanding and an open dialog amongst practitioners, auditors, users, business leaders and all other stakeholders. That vision [...]
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WMQ free tools updated
October 29th, 2009 No Comments
Michael Dag at MQSystems has updated his WMQ 1-Page Quick Reference cards. Go to his Links page and look at the top two entries. While you are there, check out the Solutions page where you can find out abour MQ Document and MQ Architect. Roger Lacroix has updated a few of his free products recently, [...]
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New WMQ Channel vulnerability and interim fix announced
June 5th, 2009 No Comments
The IBM Internet Security Systems XForce team recently announced a buffer overflow vulnerability in WebSphere MQ client channels. According to the release, the vulnerability includes the possibility of remotely executing arbitrary code or “causing the application to crash.” It is not clear whether “application” in this case refers to the channel agent, channel pooling process [...]
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Wrapping up IMPACT 2009
May 8th, 2009 No Comments
Well, this is the last day of IMPACT. It’s always lightly attended as many folks take Friday as a travel day. I have one more session this morning though. It’s the WMQ ESE introduction. Overall the WMQ security sessions were well attended. Even the small rooms were large, compared to past conferences, so my feeling [...]
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Schedule for IMPACT
April 28th, 2009 No Comments
This post is really more for me than anyone else. I’ll be at IMPACT 2009 next week and need a handy place to track my schedule. Sunday: 16:00 – 17:00 Premium Support Welcome Reception Venetian’s Orchid Restaurant Monday: 11:00 – 12:15 TMC-1054A Basic WMQ Security Delfino 4101B Tuesday: 07:15 – 08:15 Breakfast meeting w/customer [...]
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