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This Solution Accelerator provides instructions and recommendations to help strengthen the security of computers running the Hyper-V role on Windows Server® 2008. It covers three core topics: hardening Hyper-V, delegating virtual machine management...
Yesterday, Microsoft has released an out of band patch (in other words, not through the standard cycle of releases,which means it’s really important and there is no time to wait for the next cycle) for all Windows version. Such a release, obviously causes...
Two researchers claim to have found a way to circumvent both Data Execution Protection (DEP) and Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR). These techniques are meant to protect the way information is stored in RAM, ASLR is relatively new and it randomizes...
Haven’t managed to go through a book from cover to back in a long time. Well, the draught has been broken. I picked up “Administering Windows Vista Security The big surprises” (known henceforth as ‘the book’) and just finished reading it cover to back...
The last few days(actually almost a month now) have been very exciting in the relatively “boring” world of DNS. In that world nothing much changes…DNS has been around for quite a while now and it has always helped us translate friendly names into long...
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
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