• PTV xServer internet – PTV Europe and World City Map cluster TomTom with API Version 1 – deactivation of TLS 1.0 and 1.1

    We would like to inform you that we plan to deactivate TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on the PTV World and Europe City Map [TomTom] production cluster with API Version 1 on March 8th and 10th, 2022.

    The following tasks will be completed in the scope of this maintenance:

    March 8th, 2022:   PTV World City Map [TomTom] production

    • Deactivation of Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1
    • Map update to PTV World City Map 2022.1T
    • PTV xServer update to newest xServer API version 1

    March 10th, 2022:  PTV Europe City Map [TomTom] production

    • Deactivation of Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1

    The deactivation of TLS 1.0 and 1.1 is a major change that may have effect on your application.

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  • Deactivation of Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 starts today!

    PTV xServer internet will no longer be able to support TLS 1.1 or lower due to security updates in Azure. We informed you about this topic in the following blog post in April 2021.

    PTV will start to deactivate the protocols with the upcoming map cluster updates.

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  • Critical vulnerability in Log4j

    The latest update to this post is available here!

    On Friday 09.12.21 a critical vulnerability (Log4Shell) in the widely used Java library Log4j has been identified. According to the assessment of many authorities, this leads to an extremely critical threat situation, which is why, among others, the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) in Germany has upgraded its existing cyber security warning to warning level red (see Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures and BSI).…

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  • PTV xServer internet technical information – Reported issues for PTV Europe City Map [TomTom] with API Version 1

    On September 1st 2021 we did the update on the PTV Europe City Map [TomTom] with API Version 1. After the switch to production some customers had problems.

    Here are the issues reported and the corresponding solution:

    • There was a report that a customer could no longer connect to the service.

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  • PTV xServer internet update – PTV Europe City Map [HERE] with API Version 1

    We did perform technical maintenance today that did not require any downtime.
    The following tasks were completed in the scope of this maintenance.

    PTV Europe City Map [HERE] – TEST and INTEGRATION – cluster with API version 1:

    • Operating system change from Windows Server to Ubuntu Linux

    Please test your application on the today updated test system and report any problem immediately.

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  • Deactivation of Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1

    Microsoft announced the deactivation of Transport Layer Security 1.0 and 1.1
    Announcement from Microsoft on September 30th, 2020:
    Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 are security protocols for establishing encryption channels over computer networks.…

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