Catalyst blog

In this blog I wanted to share some of the lessons from that year that led up to the November 2021 security release.

Congratulations to Catalyst’s Andrew Bartlett, who was recently on the 2021 Q4 Security Reseacher Leader-board at Microsoft, for his work with Samba and Microsoft’s Active Directory.

As of the time of publication of this advisory, Catalyst is not aware of any of its systems, or of any systems we host or manage for our clients, as having been compromised.

The old test suite the Samba team are replacing is similar to sand in the way that each time the team touched it or what was already built on, it just crumbled, because it was overly sensitive.

Andrew Barlett reflects on his last 20 years of working on Samba.

What Early Returns/Guard Clauses are, why you should use them, and examples of how to use them in React.

There have been reports of fraudulent phone calls targeting individuals and companies, claiming to be from Catalyst, in an attempt to extract confidential information.

Two new security vulnerabilities, which affect most modern processors. We are treating these issues as high priority.

Explore how Catalyst's Samba team enhanced performance for the Samba 4.5 release.

The trick with making a good password is to have it so specific to you, that no one will be able to guess.

In Nov 2014 Microsoft released MS14-066 / KB2992611, fixing an issue some suggested was 'Microsoft's Heartbleed', in reference to the OpenSSL issues also found last year.