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Continuing my Microsoft fanboy weekend- In an article called: Microsoft vs. Apple: Who patches zero-days faster? (by Computeworld ) the writer describes a research done by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. The research looked at how many times...
Ok,so as a Microsoft fanboy it is my turn to gloat. Vista Ultimate still stands strong after the 2nd day of the PWN 2 OWN contest. Basically the contest provides three laptops that have Windows Vista Ultimate, OSX 10.5.2 and Ubuntu. The hacker receives...
The theory Mandatory Integrity Control (MIC) is an additional layer of security built into Vista and Windows 2008. This particular layer helps Windows protect itself from harmful intentional and unintentional changes to important objects. Among the objects...
Anonymity is a commodity that most of us have lost in this age. At times though, you may still attempt to seek anonymity so you can avoid being hit by a barrage of junk or due to the fact that you do not trust a specific website(that requires you to register...
This might be somewhat old but it still strikes me as odd. It seems that every process on the iPhone runs as root, which basically means that if one process is breached it will have full access to the whole system. When looking at this situation, on one...
Ever wondered if your password is strong enough? Well if you did you can use either or both of the following sites to verify the strength of your password: http://www.geekwisdom.com/dyn/passwdmeter https://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/password/checker...
The ISA server team has posted a guide on the subject (in three parts). The guide covers most aspects of the subject including troubleshooting. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Overview UAC (also called Admin Approval Mode) is a new feature introduced with Windows Vista. The main goal of this feature is to protect the operating system from malicious or accidental damage. This goal is achieved by requesting consent from the user...
Take a look at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931212 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939373 This has also been mentioned on Donna's Security Flash (which is a great resource for security news/updates).
OK,so I was troubleshooting and odd issue with an FTP server and one of the things that caught my attention while using Network Monitor (on a Windows 2000 server) was that some(actually almost all) of the TCP checksums (originating from the server) were...
Most administrators use the command prompt to run administrative tasks. The problem is that if you are using Vista, opening the CMD will not allow you to run commands as an administrator(unclear to me as to why couldn't they simply let the UAC take care...
The most common reason for such a question to come up is security. TCP/UDP ports are virtual windows on the walls that represent your computer. If a perpetrator would like to gain access to your system he would do such using one such window. We might...
Hmmmm... This one really got me going(on the other hand this shouldn't be a usrprise since it had me up unttil 3am). What makes a vulnerability more dangerous/famous then another? How come there are dozens of vulnerabilities yet you really remmember only...
You may receive a “Stop 0x000000ab” error message when you log off a Terminal Services session on a Windows Server 2003 SP1-based Terminal Server http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;901150
Don't really see a major reason for using Telnet,but: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;902439
Microsoft has released a tool we have been waiting for-a tool that enables SysAdmins to control conccurent logins to their AD environment. Based on the short time I have been exposed to this tool I can say that it looks cool but it has its limitations...
It seems that Phishing is out and Pharming is in. For more information take a look at the following article by Robert Vamosi: http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3513_7-5670780-1.html?tag=nl.e501
MS announced yesterday of a Security Cooperation Program intended for goverements. The program will help governments deal with security threats(in MS products). Take a look at: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/feb05/02-02SecurityCooperationpr...
This is an oldie but a goodie- Process Explorer from Sysinternals. This application displays the running processes and the files they are using. Download it from: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml
From the article: “ Microsoft has released the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool to help remove specific, prevalent malicious software from computers that are running Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows XP, or Microsoft...
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