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Nothin' like system tray advertising

If you have an older Adobe reader you'll notice that your system tray now urges you to update.

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA by bradley on Mon, May 20 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Security
KB2807986 "throttled" state

One of the things I wrote up in the SMBKitchen patching tips is the reason KB2807986 is unchecked...Microsoft is throttling the update for some unknown reason... Known issues with this security update In certain automated update deployment scenarios (such as from Windows Update or Microsoft Update),...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA by bradley on Fri, Mar 15 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Security
Pick up the phone and check

DDoS Attack on Bank Hid $900,000 Cyberheist — Krebs on Security: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/02/ddos-attack-on-bank-hid-900000-cyberheist/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+KrebsOnSecurity+%28Krebs+on+Security%29 "A few thoughts about this attack. If you...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA by bradley on Fri, Feb 22 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Security
Security Updates Februar 2013

auch diesen Monat gibt es wieder einige Sicherheitsupdates von Microsoft. Insgesamt sollen 57 Lücken gestopft werden: MS13-009 Kumulatives Sicherheitsupdate für Internet Explorer (2792100) Dieses Sicherheitsupdate behebt dreizehn vertraulich gemeldete Sicherheitsanfälligkeiten in Internet...

Posted to Exchange, Security and Active Directory by Wstein on Thu, Feb 14 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Client, Security, Server
Trusteer update..

Don’t blame me, I am only the messenger.. From Trusteer this morning “Please be advised that the links we provided you are short-termed and will expire in the following week.We will publish a fix for this problem soon.” Hopefully, directly after the links already provided expire, eh..

Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Fri, Feb 8 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Security
Online banking security..

Banks are eager to ensure that transactions between themselves and their customers are safe for obvious reasons. To this end, you may get a request to install software called ‘Trusteer Rapport’. Always eager to help out, I landed on the Scotiabank page, saw the request and duly installed it. All appeared...

Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Thu, Feb 7 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Security, Windows 8, IE10
Sicherheitsupdates im Januar 2013

Microsoft hat vor zwei Wochen Sicherheitsupdates veröffentlicht, die auf den Servern nicht fehlen dürfen: MS13-008 Sicherheitsupdate für Internet Explorer ( 2799329) Dieses Sicherheitsupdate behebt eine vertraulich gemeldete Sicherheitsanfälligkeit in Internet Explorer. Wenn ein Benutzer...

Posted to Exchange, Security and Active Directory by Wstein on Sat, Feb 2 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Client, Security, Server
Myths #3: Give without giving

One more mystery for me: how give everything without giving everything. This is exactly the question I see very often in various forums and other places. This is the question I hear personally from time to time. It can be in asked in several forms, the most frequent forms are: 1) How can I give a user...

Posted to IT, IS, etc... by KomatoZo on Mon, Jan 21 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Security, Myths
#RuTeched: answering the questions. Does the Dynamic Access Control work over replication?

As I said previously my labs were a success, still I wasn’t able to answer some questions and promised to answer them later. the time has come for the first of them. One of the visitors told me that he had had an experience when some of files’ attributes wouldn’t replicate over DFSR and asked me if there...

Posted to IT, IS, etc... by KomatoZo on Fri, Dec 28 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Security, Tips'N'Tricks, AD, Windows 8, Dynamic Access Control
Do you or don't you?

So Nick built a survey that I'd like to see more than just 6 responses to... Most of the users we support are local admins on their PCs and I know this isn't the greatest, but it's what our users want. I've created a quick 1 question survey to see if people in the communities I'm...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA by bradley on Sat, Dec 22 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Security
Re released MS12-078 due to font problem

Microsoft doesn't rerelease updates often, this is one of those times Today Microsoft rereleased update KB2753842 to resolve an issue with OpenType fonts not properly rendering after the original update was installed. All customers to install the rereleased update, even those who have successfully...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA by bradley on Thu, Dec 20 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Security
KB2506143 / KB2506146 Removed from MU

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/smallbusinessserver/thread/76cfdd73-dace-4984-8896-fdaed0dcf818/ Another user, c_h_u_c_k_o , has replied to a thread you have subscribed to in the Small Business Server Forum. Thread Title Do not install 2506143 (optional WMF 3.0 patch) on your SBS 2011...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA by bradley on Wed, Dec 19 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Security
Well that's lovely

The wordpress side of the blog is being rebuilt - again - due to having found a lovely file that allows for GUI access to the server. wp-xml.php http://blog.hacktalk.net/wso-2-5-shell-released/ Now digging into the root cause and testing/code auditing the rest of the wordpress install. I don't claim...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA by bradley on Wed, Dec 19 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Security
Exchange 2013 Health Check Monitors and Journaling

Exchange 2013 includes built-in health monitors that monitor the health of system resources. Microsoft calls this new process "Managed Availability". The Exchange 2013 Server Health and Performance topic on TechNet says, "Exchange 2013...

Posted to The EXPTA {blog} by on Thu, Dec 6 2012
Filed under: Filed under: tip, troubleshooting, PowerShell, Security, Exchange 2013, Journaling
Email: The Security Industry’s Single Biggest Failure

I still remember so clearly the frustration I felt back in the 90′s when starting in the security industry and trying to sell my services. It was so difficult trying to emphasize just how much at risk potential clients were and then get them to...

Posted to Xato by on Thu, Nov 29 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Passwords, security, hackers, Cryptography, nsa, Privacy, Tools, policy, password, laws, technology, Law, hacker, legal, Authentication, persona, integrity, information, internet, non-repudiation, email, insecure technology, secure, two-factor, hack, Email Security
Win8/RT Tip: Make your Picture Password harder to guess

One of the nice things that Microsoft have done in Windows 8 and RT for people using a touchscreen, like on the Surface, is provide a new way of signing in with a Picture Password. They expain in a comprehensive post how secure it is, but in practice...

Posted to Jon Noble by on Tue, Nov 13 2012
Filed under: Filed under: windows, photogallery, security, windows8, windowsrt, surface, picturepassword
SpywareBlaster Database Update Nov 06 1012

• 15637 Total items in database. • 66 New IE Restricted Zone entries. • None for Firefox.

Posted to Siljaline's Blog by siljaline on Wed, Nov 7 2012
Filed under: Filed under: security, privacy, updates
*New Update Alert* The following 3421 new updates have been synchronized to SERVER

* New Update Alert * The following 3421 new updates have been synchronized to SERVER since Sunday, November 04, 2012 6:00 AM (GMT). If you just got something like that on your WSUS, it's normal and to be expected: From http://marc.info/?l=patchmanagement&m=135187190204114&w=2 "I want...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA by bradley on Sun, Nov 4 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Security
Microsoft veröffentlicht wichtige Patche, Updates und V2 von Rollups

Am gestrigen Patchday wurden einige wichtige Updates veröffentlicht: MS12-064 Sicherheitsanfälligkeiten in Microsoft Word können Remotecodeausführung ermöglichen (2742319) Dieses Sicherheitsupdate behebt zwei vertraulich gemeldete Sicherheitsanfälligkeiten in Microsoft Office. Die schwerwiegendere...

Posted to Exchange, Security and Active Directory by Wstein on Wed, Oct 10 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Security, Server, Lync, Sharepoint
If you see some updates from the past beeing offered up again...

Read this first: http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2012/10/09/security-advisory-2749655-and-timestamping.aspx One of the date/time stamped screwed up bulletins is the Exchange one. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-058 - Critical : Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server WebReady Document Viewing...

Posted to THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA by bradley on Tue, Oct 9 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Security

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