September 2006 - Posts

What’s with this WMPUB directory?
Mon, Sep 25 2006 23:09
I was recently going through my windows lockdown procedure, cleaning up unnecessary files and noticed that every Windows 2003 Server I own has a wmpub directory in the root of my C drive. The only thing in the directory is an empty subdirectory named...
by MBs Windows Security
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Segregate Your DNS Servers article
Thu, Sep 21 2006 16:22
DNS is one of the Internet’s oldest and most ubiquitous protocols. It’s also one of the most misunderstood and misconfigured. DNS is an efficient hierarchal distributed-database mechanism, but the effectiveness of that mechanism strongly depends...
by MBs Windows Security
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VM Host Access is Physical Access
Thu, Sep 21 2006 16:11
In the last year I have seen a huge explosion in the use of virtual machine technology for critical infrastructure systems. Many of us have long used virtual machines for testing, software development, and research, but many organizations are increasingly...
by MBs Windows Security
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