Muitas melhorias foram feitas na árvore 10.0-STABLE que logo virará o 10.1-RELENG e 10.1-RELEASE. Nesse link foi feito um sumário de todas as mudanças realizadas até agora. É muito importante ler o conteúdo e conhecer o que está sendo feito para melhorar cada vez mais esse OS que nos trás tantas alegrias.  🙂

Boa leitura para todos!

Ontem saiu uma vulnerabilidade que afeta milhares de servidores na Internet. Abaixo um trecho da matéria que saiu na Info sobre esse problema:

Um bug no código do OpenSSL pode ter deixado boa parte dos servidores pela web vulnerável na virada desta segunda para terça-feira. Chamada de Heartbleed, a brecha permite que invasores ‘pesquem’ pedaços de quaisquer dados em diversos data centers que rodam alguma versão recente do software – mas já conta com uma solução.

A biblioteca open source de criptografia OpenSSL é adotada por aproximadamente 2 em cada 3 servidores de empresas para blindar comunicações, segundo uma estimativa da Lastpass. É ela a responsável por colocar o S no HTTPS e o cadeado na barra de endereços, por exemplo, conforme explicou o NakedSecurity. Yahoo!, Flickr, StackOverflow, XDA-Developers, Imgur, WeTransfer e Steam Community, além da própria Lastpass, são alguns dos sites e serviços protegidos pelo software e que acabaram afetados por essa nova vulnerabilidade – você pode conferir uma lista, ainda que desatualizada, neste link.

O restante da matéria pode ser vista na íntegra aqui.

Fique atento se você possui servidores com FreeBSD 10. Aqui o aviso oficial do Secteam da FreeBSD.

Já tem algum tempo que foi disponibilizada uma tabela com as data finais de suporte para algumas versões do FreeBSD. O FreeBSD 8.3, por exemplo, não terá mais atualizações de segurança à partir de 30/04. Nesse caso para manter o sistema seguro deverá atualizar para a versão 8.4 ou posterior e usar a árvore releng ou stable.

Sistemas inseguros são uma das principais causas para as crescentes Botnets que vemos pela Internet, causando danos à terceiros, servindo de armas para cyber ataques como DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service). O último ataque DDoS foi recorde da Internet, bateu 400Gbps de tráfego e usou uma recente vulnerabilidade no NTP, matéria aqui. Por isso como SysAdmins temos a obrigação de mantermos nossos sistemas o mais seguro possível.

Abaixo a tabela de EoL (End of Life) das versões do FreeBSD e fiquem atentos:

 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 |   Branch  |   Release  |  Type  |   Release Date   |     Estimated EoL     |
 +-----------+------------+--------+------------------+-----------------------+
 |stable/8   |n/a         |n/a     |n/a               |June 30, 2015          |
 +-----------+------------+--------+------------------+-----------------------+
 |releng/8.3 |8.3-RELEASE |Extended|April 18, 2012    |April 30, 2014         |
 +-----------+------------+--------+------------------+-----------------------+
 |releng/8.4 |8.4-RELEASE |Extended|June 9, 2013      |June 30, 2015          |
 +-----------+------------+--------+------------------+-----------------------+
 |stable/9   |n/a         |n/a     |n/a               |last release + 2 years |
 +-----------+------------+--------+------------------+-----------------------+
 |releng/9.1 |9.1-RELEASE |Extended|December 30, 2012 |December 31, 2014      |
 +-----------+------------+--------+------------------+-----------------------+
 |releng/9.2 |9.2-RELEASE |Normal  |September 30, 2013|September 30, 2014     |
 +-----------+------------+--------+------------------+-----------------------+
 |stable/10  |n/a         |n/a     |n/a               |last release + 2 years |
 +-----------+------------+--------+------------------+-----------------------+
 |releng/10.0|10.0-RELEASE|Normal  |January 20, 2014  |January 31, 2015       |
 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

A vBSDCon é um evento que está sendo promovido pela Verisign nos dias 25 à 27 de Outubro na Virginia – EUA.

Vão haver mesas-redondas, sessões educativas, discussões sobre melhores práticas e oportunidades exclusivas de networking.

À quem se destina esse evento:

• Desenvolvedores
• Engenheiros
• Administradores
• Inovadores

A agenda do evento pode ser vista aqui.

Alguns expositores de nome: HP, iXSystems e Juniper Networks

pfSense é uma distribuiçāo livre, open source e personalizada do FreeBSD adaptada para ser usada como firewall e roteador. Além de ser uma poderosa e flexível plataforma de firewall e roteamento, ele inclui uma longa lista de recursos relacionados e um sistema de pacotes permitindo futuras expansões, sem acrescentar falhas e vulnerabilidades de segurança em potencial na base da distribuição. pfSense é um projeto popular com mais de 1 milhão de downloads desde seu início, inúmeras instalações que vão desde pequenas redes domésticas, protegendo desde um PC ou um Xbox, até grandes corporações, universidades e outras organizações protegendo milhares de dispositivos de rede.

O Projeto acabou de liberar uma nova versão com as seguintes melhorias:

Security Updates

Three FreeBSD security advisories are applicable to prior pfSense releases. These aren’t remotely exploitable in and of themselves, but anyone who can execute arbitrary code on your firewall could use one or more of these to escalate privileges.
FreeBSD-SA-13:13.nullfs
FreeBSD-SA-13:12.ifioctl.asc
FreeBSD-SA-13:09.ip_multicast.asc

IPv6 Support
IPv6 Added to many areas of the GUI. At least the following areas/features are IPv6-enabled. Others may work as well

• Aliases (Firewall) – Aliases can contain both IPv4 and IPv6, only addresses relevant to a given rule will be used
• CARP RA
• CARP Failover
• DHCP Server w/Prefix Delegation
• SLAAC WAN
• 6to4 WAN
• 6to4 WAN w/Prefix Delegation
• 6rd WAN
• 6rd WAN w/Prefix Delegation
• DHCP6 WAN
• DHCP6 WAN w/Prefix Delegation
• DHCPv6 Relay
• DNS Forwarder
• Firewall Rules
• Gateway Groups/Multi-WAN
• Gateway Status (apinger)
• GIF Tunnels
• GRE Tunnels
• GUI Access
• IPsec
• L2TP
• Network Prefix Translation (NPt)
• NTP
• OpenVPN
• Packet Capture
• PPPoE WAN
• Router Advertisements
• Routing
• Server LB
• Static IP
• Syslog (remote)
• Limiters (dummynet pipes)
• Virtual IPs – IP Alias
• Virtual IPs – CARP
• DNS from RA
• Accept RA when forwarding
• Auth via RADIUS
• Auth via LDAP
• XMLRPC Sync
• RRD Graphs
• DHCP Static Mapping – Works by DUID
• DynDNS (HE.net hosted DNS, RFC2136, custom)
• MAC OUI database lookup support for NDP and DHCPv6. (Was already present for DHCP leases and ARP table) requires the nmap package to be installed to activate

NOTE: Unlike earlier snapshots, BETA, etc, currently we do NOT flip the “Allow IPv6″ checkbox on upgrade, to preserve existing behavior. To activate IPv6 traffic, a user will have to flip this setting manually.

Packages

• PBI (push button installer) package support – all of a package’s files and dependencies are kept in an isolated location so packages cannot interfere with one another in the way that was possible on 2.0.x and before using tbz packages
• RIP (routed) moved to a package
• OLSRD moved to a package
• Unbound moved back to a package (Will try integration again for 2.2)
• Increase the verboseness of the package reinstallation process in the system logs for a post-firmware-update package reinstallation operation

OS/Binary/Supporting Program Updates

• Based on FreeBSD 8.3
• Updated Atheros drivers
• OpenSSL 1.0.1e (or later) used by OpenVPN, PHP, IPsec, etc
• PHP to 5.3.x
• OpenVPN to 2.3.x
• Added mps kernel module
• Added ahci kernel module
• Updated ixgbe driver
• Many other supporting packages have been updated

Dashboard & General GUI

• Switch from Prototype to jQuery
• Improved navigation and service status in the GUI (shortcut icons in each section to quickly access config, logs, status, control services, etc)
• Multiple language support, a mostly-complete translation for Brazilian Portuguese is included
• Read-only privilege to create a user that cannot modify config.xml
• Dashboard update check can be disabled
• Fixed theme inconsistencies between the login form and other parts of the GUI
• Various fixes to pages to reduce potential exposure to certain CSRF/XSS vectors
• Updated CSRF Magic
• Set CSRF Magic token timeout to be the same as the login expiration
• Added IE Mobile for WP8 to list of browsers that get an alternate theme at login
• Truncate service status so long package descriptions cannot break formatting of the status table
• Many fixes to HTML/XHTML to improve rendering and validation
• Added a note to the setup wizard letting the user know that it can be canceled at any time by clicking the logo image
• Make dashboard update check respect nanobsd-vga
• Firewall Logs Widget filtering and column changes
• Added totals for some dashboard widget meters (memory, swap, disk usage)
• Changed dashboard display for states and mbufs to be meters, and to show usage as a percentage
• Update dashboard mbuf count via AJAX
• Show a count and layout of CPUs in the dashboard if multiple CPUs are detected

Captive Portal

• Multi instance Captive Portal
• Multiple Captive Portal RADIUS authentication sources (e.g. one for users, one for cards)
• Logic fixes for voucher encryption
• Many optimizations to Captive Portal processing, including a database backend and moving functions to a php module to improve speed
• Optional Captive Portal user privilege
• Add checks to make sure CP hard timeout is less than or equal DHCP server default lease time, to avoid issues with CP sessions being valid for incorrect IPs, and users switching IPs while they should still be connected to the portal
• Fixes for captive portal voucher syncing on HTTPS with a custom port
• Fixes for custom Captive Portal files leaving symlinks on the filesystem after files were removed
• Added MAC OUI database lookup support to CP status (requires nmap package to be installed)

OS/System Management

• Ability to select serial port speed
• Added a manual way to enable TRIM if someone needs it
• Added a manual way to trigger a fsck on reboot
• AES-NI support (Cryptographic Accelerator feature on new Intel/AMD CPUs) — Still experimental, not supported by some areas of the OS yet.
• Support for certain thermal sensors via ACPI, coretemp, and amdtemp
• System startup beep can be disabled
• Separate powerd setting for when on battery
• Add optional ability to change the size of RAM disks for /var/ and /tmp/ for systems that have RAM to spare
• Add optional ability for full installs to use RAM disks for /var/ and /tmp/ as is done on NanoBSD. Reduces overall writes to the media, should be more SSD-friendly
• Use a custom sysDescr for snmp similar to m0n0wall’s format.
• Added tunable to allow disabling net.inet.udp.checksum – disabling UDP checksums can improve performance, but can also have negative side effects
• Added an mtree database with the correct default permissions, owner, sha256 sum, and some other information that is used to verify file permissions post-install and post-upgrade
• APC is not started for PHP unless the system has over 512MB RAM, to reduce memory usage on systems with low RAM

Multi-WAN

• DynDNS multi-WAN failover
• IPsec multi-WAN failover
• OpenVPN multi-WAN failover
• Changed descriptions of the values for gateway monitoring
• Display apinger (gateway monitoring daemon) as a service when it is enabled
• Fixes for apinger to reload via SIGHUP properly, to avoid unnecessary restarts and loss of gateway status data
• “State Killing on Gateway Failure” now kills ALL states when a gateway has been detected as down, not just states on the failing WAN. This is done because otherwise the LAN-side states were not killed before, and thus some connections would be in limbo, especially SIP.
• Due to the change in its behavior, “State Killing on Gateway Failure” is now disabled by default in new configurations and is disabled during upgrade. If you want the feature, you’ll have to manually re-enable it post-upgrade.

NTP

• NTP daemon now has GPS support

IPsec

• More IPsec hash algorithms and DH key groups added, “base” negotiation mode added
• Mobile IPsec supports separate “split DNS” field and doesn’t just assume the default domain for split DNS domains
• Properly ignore disabled IPsec phase 2 entries
• NAT before IPsec (1:1 or many:1) outbound
• Set default Proposal Check setting to Obey for mobile IPsec
• LDAP and RADIUS are now possible authentication sources for IPsec mobile xauth
• Delete the SPDs for an old IPsec entry when it is disabled or removed
• Manage active SPDs on CARP secondary during sync
• Add an option to force IPsec to reload on failover, which is needed in some cases for IPsec to fail from one interface to another.

OpenVPN

• OpenVPN can accept attributes from RADIUS via avpairs for things like inacl, outacl, dns-server, routes
• OpenVPN checkbox for “topology subnet” to use one IP per client in tun mode
• OpenVPN local/remote network boxes can accept multiple comma-separated networks
• OpenVPN status for SSL/TLS server instances can now display the routing table for the VPN instance
• OpenVPN now allows selecting “localhost” as the interface
• Gateways are created for assigned OpenVPN server instances as well as clients
• OpenVPN instances can run on the same port on different interfaces
• OpenVPN status page now has service controls to show the status of the daemon running each instance, and allow for stop/start/restart from that page
• Changed wording of the error displayed when a daemon is not running or the management interface of OpenVPN cannot be reached for an instance
• OpenVPN client-specific Override cleanup fixes
• Fixed double-click to edit of OpenVPN Client-Specific Overrides

NAT/Firewall Rules/Alias

• Aliases separated into tabs for Hosts, Ports, and URLs to improve manageability
• NAT reflection options re-worded to be less confusing
• Adjustable source tracking timeout for Sticky connections
• Firewall rules now support matching on ECE and CWR TCP flags
• Filtering on ECE and CWR TCP flags is now possible
• Added ICMP to protocol list when creating rdr (port forward) rules
• Keep proper positioning of duplicated outbound NAT rules
• When using the + at the top of Outbound NAT rules, add the rule to the top of the list and not the bottom
• Fix ordering of interface group rules in the ruleset
• Track time and user@host which created or updated a firewall, NAT port forward, or outbound NAT rule. If timestamp records are present, display them at the bottom of the rule page when editing. Have the created time/user pre-filled for automated rules such as NAT port forward associated rules and the switch from automatic to manual outbound NAT
• Fix generation of manual outbound NAT rules so that localhost and VPN rules are not unnecessarily duplicated
• Prevent using “block” for an alias name, as it is a pf reserved keyword
• Allow TCP flags to be used on block or reject rules, since they are also valid there
• Updates/fixes to DSCP handling
• Allow advanced options state-related parameters to be used for TCP, UDP and ICMP — Formerly only allowed on TCP
• Respect ports found in rules when policy route negation rules are made
• Do not include disabled OpenVPN networks in generated policy route negation rules

Certificates

• Improved denoting of certificate purposes in the certificate list
• Imported CRLs can be edited and replaced
• Can set digest algorithm for CA/Certs (sha1, sha256, etc)
• Default digest algorithm is now SHA256
• Show CA and certificate start and end dates in the their listings
• Correct tooltip description when adding a certificate
• Relax input validation on a CA/Cert description since it is only used cosmetically in pfSense and not in the actual CA/cert subject
• Allow removing blank/empty CA and Cert entries

Logging

• More system log separation, Gateways, Routing, Resolver split into their own tabs
• Firewall logs can now be filtered by many different criteria
• Firewall logs can be sorted by any column
• Firewall logs can optionally show the matching rule description in a separate column or in between rows
• Firewall logs now show an indicator icon if the direction of a log entry is OUT rather than IN
• Add popup DNS resolution method to firewall log view
• Reduced logging output from IGMP proxy
• Reduced logging output from DynDNS
• Relocated filterdns logs to the resolver log file/tab
• Relocated DHCP client logs to the DHCP tab
• Fix system script logging so the correct script filename is printed in the log, rather than omitting the script name entirely
• Add independent logging choices to disable logging of bogon network rules and private network rules. Add upgrade code to obey the existing behavior for users (if default block logging was disabled, so is bogon/private rule blocking)
• Add a checkbox to disable the lighttpd log for people who don’t want their system log full of messages from lighttpd in some cases where they are filling the log unnecessarily

Notifications

• Add the ability to disable Growl or SMTP notifications but keep their settings intact, so the mail settings can be used for other purposes (packages, etc)
• Add a test button to selectively test Growl or SMTP notifications without re-saving settings
• Do not automatically generate a test notification on saving notification settings, as there are now individual test buttons

High Availability (CARP, pfsync, XML-RPC)

• High Availability Synchronization options (Formerly known as “CARP Settings” under Virtual IPs Promoted to its own menu entry, System > High Avail. Sync
  • This is to make it easier to find, as well as make its purpose more clear. “CARP” is a part of High Availability, as is XMLRPC/pfsync state synchronization, but it’s a bit of a misnomer to refer to the sync settings as CARP
• Ensure that the user does not remove only the last IP alias needed for a CARP VIP in an additional subnet
• Disable pfsync interface when state synchronization is not in use
• Fixed issues with DHCP server config synchronization ordering on secondary nodes
• Restart OpenVPN servers when CARP transitions to master (clients were already restarted), otherwise if CARP was disabled, the servers would never recover
• Removed the automatic pfsync rule, since the documentation always recommends adding it manually, and to add it behind the scenes with no way to block it can be counter-productive (and potentially insecure). If you did not follow the documentation and add your own pfsync or allow all rule on the sync interface, your state synchronization may break after this upgrade. Add an appropriate rule to the sync interface and it will work again.
• Allow XMLRPC to sync IP Alias VIPs set to Localhost for their interface
• In DHCP leases view, use the internal interface name (lan/opt1/etc) for the failover pool name, rather than a number. In certain cases the number can get out of sync between the two nodes, but the interface names will always match
• Print the user-configured interface description next to the DHCP failover pool name, rather than only the internal name (lan/opt1/etc)
• Add option to synchronize authentication servers (RADIUS, LDAP) via XMLRPC

NanoBSD

• Fixes for conf_mount_ro/conf_mount_rw reference checking/locking
• Diag > NanoBSD now has button to switch media between read/write and read-only
• Diag > NanoBSD now has a checkbox option to keep the media read/write
• Fixed an issue with NanoBSD time zones not being properly respected by all processes the first reboot after a firmware upgrade

DHCP Server

• DHCP can support multiple pools inside a single subnet, with distinct options per pool
• DHCP can allow/deny access to a DHCP pool by partial (or full) MAC address
• DHCP static mappings can have custom settings for gateway, DNS, etc
• DHCP static mappings can optionally have a static ARP entry created
• Fix Dynamic DNS updates from DHCP (ISC changed the config layout and requires zone declarations)
• When crafting DHCP Dynamic DNS zones, do not use invalid DNS servers for the IP type (e.g. skip IPv6 DNS servers, because the DHCP daemon rejects them)
• Added a config backup section choice for DHCPv6

Traffic Shaper

• Schedules can now be used with limiters
• Traffic shaper queues view updated
• CoDel AQM Shaper Discipline
• Allow PRIQ queues to be deleted.
• Limiters now allow the user to set the mask they want to use, rather than assuming masking will always be per-IP. This allows per-subnet limits and similar
• Limiters now allow setting masking for IPv6
• Limiters now allow setting a burst size. This will pass X amount of data (TOTAL, NOT a rate) after an idle period before enforcing the limit

DNS Forwarder

• In DNS forwarder, DNS query forwarding section with options for sequential and require domain
• Allow a null forwarding server in DNS Forwarder domain overrides to ensure that queries stay local and never go outside the firewall
• Add DNS Forwarder option to not forward private reverse lookups
• DNS Forwarder domain overrides can now specify a source address for the query, to help resolve hostnames over VPN tunnels
• DNS Forwarder now can change the port upon which it listens, for better cohabitation with other DNS software such as tinydns or unbound, if both are needed
• DNS Forwarder now has an option to select the interfaces/IP Addresses upon which it will respond to queries
• DNS Forwarder can now be set to only bind to specific IPv4 IPs (the underlying software, dnsmasq, does not support selectively binding to IPv6 IPs)
• Improved handling of some dnsmasq custom config options

User Manager

• Configurable RADIUS authentication timeout in User Manager
• Print the error message from LDAP in the log for a bind failure. Helps track down reasons for authentication failures
• Re-enable admin user if it’s disabled when ‘Reset webConfigurator password’ option is used.
• Restrict maximum group name length to 16 characters or less (OS restriction)
• Added option to UTF-8 encode LDAP parameters to improve handling of international characters
• CDATA protected LDAP fields in config to avoid invalid XML with international characters

DynDNS

• Fixed handling of DynDNS 25-day update and add ability to configure update interval
• Added DynDNS No-IP Free Account Support
• Add AAAA support to RFC2136 updates
• Add cached IP support to RFC2136, add GUI button to force update for single host
• Fix double click row to edit for RFC2136
• Add option to RFC2136 to find/use the public IP if the interface IP is private. (Off by default to preserve existing behavior on upgrade)
• Add server IP column and cached IP display to RFC2136 host list
• Include RFC2136 hosts in DNS rebinding checks
• Include both dyndns and RFC2136 hosts in referer check

Graphs

• Add ability to reverse-resolve IPs on Status > Traffic Graph in the rate table
• Add ability to filter local or remote IPs on Status > Traffic Graph in the rate table
• Change maximum values for RRD throughput to account for 10G links. Previous maximums would have caused blank spots on the graph during periods of high throughput
• Fixes to RRD data resolution/retention
• Added RRD Graph for mbuf clusters
• Changed default RRD graph colors to be more visually distinct to help avoid ambiguity between multiple values on the same graph

Misc

• Add option to the packet capture page to control whether or not promiscuous mode is used on the NIC. Rarely, NICs can have issues with promiscuous mode
• Make parent interface and all VLANs share MTU
• Fix cellular signal strength indicator
• Fix PPP config cleanup when removing an interface
• Disallow adding IP Alias or CARP VIP that would be the network or broadcast address of a subnet
• Diagnostics > Sockets page to show open network sockets on the firewall
• Diagnostics > Test Port page to perform a simple TCP connection test to see if a port is open
• The pftop page has additional options to display more detailed information and sort it
• Fixed conflict between static IP and static route in the same subnet
• Do not apply static ARP entries to disabled interfaces
• Do not allow bridge members to be assigned to itself
• Changed Diag > Ping to use more available source addresses (CARP VIPs, IP Alias VIPs, OpenVPN interfaces, IPv6 Link-Local IPs)
• Changed Diag > Traceroute to use more available source addresses (CARP VIPs, IP Alias VIPs, OpenVPN interfaces, IPv6 Link-Local IPs)
• Changed shell prompt to not force background color, to be kinder to those not using black as a background in their terminal
• Add a field to allow rejecting DHCP leases from a specific upstream DHCP server.
• Updated the help system to handle some recent added files for 2.x and clean out some old/obsolete files
• Allow selecting “Localhost” as an interface for IP Alias VIPs – this way you can make IP Alias VIPs for binding firewall services (e.g. Proxy, VPN, etc) in routed subnets without burning IPs for CARP unnecessarily
• Updated list of mobile service providers
• Fix max length for WPA passphrase. A 64-char passphrase would be rejected by hostapd and leave an AP in an open state
• Added MSS clamping to the setup wizard
• Add a setting to configure the filterdns hostname resolution interval (defaults to 300s, 5 minutes)
• Omit IP mismatch warnings (e.g. behind a port forward, VPN IP, etc) if HTTP_REFERER protection is disabled
• Fixes for selecting/detecting PPP devices such as 3G/4G modems
• Rather than doing auto-detection to find serial PPP devices, use a glob when listing potential PPP serial devices
• Prevent sshlockout from a crash/coredump if a format string like %s is present in the buffer
• Fix SMART to see adaX devices
• Fix SMART interpretation of output from SCSI devices
• Fixed display of user SSH keys when present
• Updated p0f database from FreeBSD
• Fix UPnP Interface name selection to show the configured description entered by the user
• Allow setting the external UPnP interface (must be default route WAN)
• Fix Diag > Tables AJAX fadeOut after deletion for rows with CIDR mask format
• Improve Diagnostics > Routes to fetch output via AJAX and have configurable filtering and sizes. Improves handling of large routing tables, such as a full BGP feed
• When deleting or renaming a virtual server from the Load Balancer (relayd) manually clean up the NAT rules it leaves behind to avoid conflicts
• Many, many bug fixes
• Various fixes for typos, formatting, input validation, etc

SH/PHP Shell Scripts

• Git package for gitsync is now pulled in as a pfSense-style PBI package
• Added playback shell scripts added to enable/disable CARP
• Added playback shell scripts to add and remove packages from the command line
• Added playback shell script to remove shaper settings
• Added playback shell script to control services from the command line
• Add a simple CLI mail script capable of sending an SMTP message using echo/piped input. (Uses SMTP notification settings for server details)
• Added a script to convert a user’s filesystem from device names to UFS labels, for easier portability in case the disk device changes names (e.g. adX to adY, adX to daY, or adX to adaX). ONLY FOR FULL INSTALLS. NanoBSD already uses labels

Mais pode ser lido nesses 2 links abaixo:

http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=712 - 2.1-RELEASE
http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=718 - Gold Subscription

Mãos à obra e um bom fim de semana para todos.  :)

Depois de 6 meses desde o incidente de segurança que houve em Novembro de 2012 agora os binários foram liberados novamente e para quem costumar instalar os binários ao invés de compilá-los usando o ports, pode ficar feliz.

Abaixo o anúncio oficial:

Dear FreeBSD Community,

Six months have passed since the November security incident which
brought the Project's binary package building capacity offline; we are
pleased to announce that all services are now restored.  This has
followed a significant effort to review security throughout the FreeBSD
Project's infrastructure, and reengineer the package-building system to
support greater compartmentalization and resilience.  This includes the
redports.org and ports QAT, generation and update of INDEX files,
publication of binary package sets, and binary-package building itself.
The revised infrastructure provided binary packages for the recent
release of FreeBSD 8.4.

We are now glad to announce that binary packages available again for
8.x, 9.x branches on i386 and amd64 architectures at the usual
locations:

  ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.4-release/
  ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8.4-release/
  ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-stable/
  ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-stable/

Note that the previously missed binary packages for 9.1-RELEASE have
been also recovered and can be found here:

  ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9.1-release/
  ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9.1-release/

However before trying any of these sites above please check your
regional mirrors first by going to:

  ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD

Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on.  More
information about FreeBSD mirror sites can be found at:

  http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html

Note that these are still the "old-style" packages.  Port managers are
currently working on introducing new-style (as known as pkgng) binary
packages in the coming months, please check the FreeBSD ports
announcements list for further gradual status updates:

  http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports-announce/

The Core Team thanks especially Peter Wemm, Mark Linimon, Simon Nielsen,
Robert Watson, Erwin Lansing, Brad Davis, Bernhard Froehlich, Beat
Gaetzi, Martin Wilke, Jonathan Anderson, George Neville-Neil, Sean
Bruno, Colin Percival, and Bjoern Zeeb for their hard work on restoring
the binary-package building cluster and the associated services, and
Gavin Atkinson for maintaining and updating the compromise page.

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O CERT.br (Centro de Estudos, Resposta e Tratamento de Incidentes de Segurança no Brasil), divisão do NIC.br (Núcleo de Informação e Coordenação do Ponto BR), disponibilizou recentemente uma nova versão da Cartilha de Segurança para Internet. Tal como o nome indica, trata-se de uma série de orientações que podem ajudar o usuário a se prevenir dos perigos existentes no “mundo on-line”.

Há instruções, por exemplo, sobre golpes na Web, malwares, SPAMs, segurança em dispositivos móveis, uso de senhas, aspectos de privacidade, entre outros. Todas as orientações são fornecidas em linguagem simples, isto é, sem uso excessivo de termos técnicos ou de conceitos complexos, o que facilita sua compreensão inclusive por pessoas com pouca familiaridade com computadores.

A Cartilha de Segurança para Internet pode ser acessada pelo endereço cartilha.cert.br e está disponível em HTML5. No site, também é possível obter uma cópia em PDF e, em breve, será disponibilizada uma versão em formato ePub (para leitores de e-books).Todo o conteúdo possui licença Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0, que permite cópia irrestrita e livre distribuição, desde que não exista finalidade comercial.

fonte:CERT.br

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No dia 11/11 uma intrusão foi encontrada em 2 máquinas do Cluster da FreeBSD.org, elas foram colocadas offline para análise e como medida preventiva outras máquinas também foram postas offline para averiguação.

Até o momento não existe confirmação de risco para nós, usuários finais, mas eles nos aconselham à olhar e acompanhar esse link que estará sendo atualizado pelo Sec Team. Abaixo a notícia na íntegra:

On Sunday 11th of November, an intrusion was detected on two machines
within the FreeBSD.org cluster.  The affected machines were taken
offline for analysis.  Additionally, a large portion of the remaining
infrastructure machines were also taken offline as a precaution.

We have found no evidence of any modifications that would put any end
user at risk.  However, we do urge all users to read the report
available at http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html and
decide on any required actions themselves.  We will continue to
update that page as further information becomes known.  We do not
currently believe users have been affected given current forensic
analysis, but we will provide updated information if this changes.

As a result of this event, a number of operational security changes
are being made at the FreeBSD Project, in order to further improve our
resilience to potential attacks.  We plan, therefore, to more rapidly
deprecate a number of legacy services, such as cvsup distribution of
FreeBSD source, in favour of our more robust Subversion, freebsd-update,
and portsnap models.

More information is available at
http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html