Month: October 2009

Parallels PBAS failing PCI tests

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Parallels Business Automation (PBA) version Build ID: 3.3.3-07.23 appears to introduce a number of PCI compliance issues which causes PCI compliance to fail.  The issue was picked up by a PCI scan after upgrade PBAS from 3.3.3-06.48 to 3.3.3-07.23.

The release notes say the following bugs have been addressed, but, appear not to have been:

3225 (267935) PBAS PCI Compliance. Web Application Cross Site Scripting issue has been corrected in the default online store.
3634          Configure PBAS for the PCI Compleance.

Which, doesn’t seem to be the case.

Parallels Business Automation (PBA) forum bugs:

Although not detailed in the PBA release notes this is not the first time Parallels Business Automation/HSPC has been plagued by XSS issues.

Suggests fixes for the XSS issue can be found in this document:

But, it doesn’t detail a fix for the SVN entries PCI issue that is reported.  Simply chmod’ing the directory fixes the PCI issue, but, may not be the best fix.

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising not the game people had hoped

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Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising was recently released but appears not the game people had hoped.  Many fans of the original military simulator Operation Flashpoint, developed by Bohemia Interactive and published by codemasters, flocked to get their hands on the newly released game.  Codemasters decided to release this game themselves and got rid of Bohemia Interactive.

Unfortunately it appears that the latest game has fallen down in many ways.  The release of the game without any dedicated server software has annoyed most PC gamers as Codemasters has chosen to go with the console style P2P connectivity which has many PC games complaining of lag, or, the system not working at all.

Many PC gamers are also complaining that they have managed to play multiplayer games, however, it appears that many people on multiplayer have downloaded the game for free due to no copy protection… another hint that the game was developed for consoles primarily.

Hopefully Codemasters release a patch soon to resolve all the bugs in this that has good potential.  Hardcore Operation Flashpoint fans might wish to check out the Arma line of games from Bohemia Interactive.

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