January 2007 - Posts
Many people tell me they are surprised with how much effort I put into hardening Windows Server 2003–the last hardening document I wrote for a client was 112 pages long. That’s not 112 pages of writing, policy, and how-to’s, that’s...
Pafwert is an unique free tool to help you to select strong passwords that are easy to remember. Read More...
Fyodor got annoyed enough with his MySpace/GoDaddy incident that he decided to start his own GoDaddy-bashing web site. Although there certainly is not enough time in the world to create web sites to vent our frustrations with every business, the free...
A couple years ago I thought a pond would be a nice addition to an empty space on the side of my old house. I didn’t know anything about constructing ponds at the time but I thought that actually doing it would be a good way to learn. After reading...
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I noticed that Schneier wrote a bit on choosing passwords and gets into some detail on how to secure a password based on some of the techniques used to crack passwords. His specific advice is: “…if you want your password to be hard to guess...
I recently did an analysis of my password list to see which letters users most commonly used as the first password character. To put it into perspective, I also ran the same statistics on a wordlist of 250,000 English words. The results were not quite...
Microsoft has released v1.2 of the Windows Vista Security Guide: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5639874 Read More...
One thing I have always liked about NTFS security is the fine-grained control you have over file permissions. But this power comes at a price—you must understand a whole new world of acronyms, confusing metaphors, and expanded definition of words such...