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Security Protection - Harry Waldron (CS)

Security Best Practices, Breaking News, & Updates

New Daylight Savings Time (DST) Changes - It works for me

The only DST issue to report is related to synchronizing "my biological clock" with the new time Wink  

Still, it's nice having an extra hour of daylight in the evenings Cool 

Yesterday, my XP system at home had no time related issues, as the DST patch worked properly.  I also accepted a special DST patch for my Blackberry PDA and within 10 minutes this was properly synchronized with the new time changes.

Today at work both of my XP systems had the correct time, as expected.  I even tested my token based RSA SecureID access and it's synchronizing with the secure server environment fine.  While I'm sure we have a few issues to revolve, it appears that our network administrators did an excellent job overall in preparing for this important change.

Below are related DST articles shared by the Internet Storm Center handlers.  While there are some issues, most likely the industry came through this change much better than predicted.  This is due to the efforts by network and security administrators in taking this change seriously and patching in advance:

 http://isc.sans.org/

2007-03-12 Kevin Hong MS DST Patch issue(?)
2007-03-11 Deborah Hale Reports of Daylight Saving Time Change Problems
2007-03-11 Deborah Hale Daylight Saving Time Change Problem With APC
2007-03-11 Deborah Hale Daylight Saving Time Change Problem With Symantec Backup Exec 10d and 10.1
2007-03-11 Deborah Hale Daylight Saving Time Change Problem With CISCO Phones
2007-03-11 Deborah Hale Daylight Saving Time Change Issues Continue To Roll In
2007-03-11 Deborah Hale Daylight Saving Time Change Problem With Watchguard Fireware 8.3.1 and Watchguard System Manager 8.3.1
2007-03-11 Deborah Hale A DST Reminder