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Web services can be hacked and information exploited against your company. If your organization has made the move towards a services oriented architecture, then security testing of your web services should be part of your repertoire. This YouTube video shows how AppScan can do exactly that with customizable reporting. ©2016 Strongback Consulting
This will be a bit of a long blog entry, but this is a demonstration of getting Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino up and running on Linux. Lotus recently released this version, and those of us in the community have long awaited a Linux version. Many of our customers who use Quickr are small companies … Read more
Yet another $h17#3@0 virus maker has spawned his evil on the world with this recent “Here you have” virus. This is a version of the old Anna Kournikova virus from 2001, which in turn was a similar variant of the “Love Bug” virus in 2000. I was working at marchFIRST (USWeb ) when the love … Read more
Earlier this year IBM announced that their development environment for Lotus Notes, the Lotus Domino Designer is now free for download. Although it does require a fee to connect to a Domino server, it costs nothing to run local homemade applications. The rapid application development ability of Lotus Notes (yes, it is a development platform), … Read more
Lotus Domino 8.5.2 was released after much development and testing. IBM appears to be going very slowly through the iteration numbers since 8.5.0. Many thanks to all the early adopters who install it at first download! As such, those early adopters are also the first to discover bugs that can really only be captured in … Read more
1 – Get all the latest fix packs after you install You should be prepared to update RFT at least once per quarter. Web browsers are always being patched, and RFT integrates tightly into the browsers. For example, if you download the latest edition of RFT and you have Firefox 3.6, you will not be … Read more
This one I’m writing so I don’t forget it. It is highly valuable info and spent a few hours wrangling with Linux to figure it out. This is a great way to proxy an Ajax web service so you avoid any cross domain scripting issues. Note, that if you also have WebSphere App Server, you … Read more
So your users are getting these “winmail.dat” attachments in Lotus Notes and can’t open them, nor can they see any special formatting that the sender had added (and the sender is ALWAYS from Outlook). Quick solution: Make sure you are on the latest fix pack of Lotus Domino. That should be 6.5.6, 7.0.3, 8.0.2, or … Read more
If you (like me) used the Cafe’s (such as the HATS Hotspot), you should be aware that IBM has moved those over to Developerworks. Its is fitting, as that is where the forums are for all the other products. If you work on System z or i, these are great forums to visit to post … Read more
For anyone who has taken a HATS class (including those offered by our company), you may find problems accessing the demo servers if you run back through your lab exercises. The reason is that IBM now requires SSL on these connections. I found this on the main site: 28 Jul 2010: If you are using … Read more