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Playboy Tells Kevin Mitnick’s Story

MB's Windows Security — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:28:23 GMT

Coming next month in Playboy Magazine: Chasing Mitnick. According to the magazine, “For two years hacker par excellence Kevin Mitnick eluded the FBI. Now that he has served his sentence, Playboy lands the exclusive story of the man The New York...(read more)

Datamation Article: Yes, I Like the Prompts

MB's Windows Security — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:58:58 GMT

Say what you will, but I personally like the prompts. Read More......(read more)

Recent Security Pro VIP articles

MB's Windows Security — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:33:47 GMT

Here are some articles I have recently written for Security Pro VIP. Note that these articles are for subscribers only. Security Pro VIP is a new online publication that used to be Penton’s Windows IT Security newsletter. Bounce Unwanted Files Out...(read more)

Why doesn’t IE7 protected mode mark downloaded files as low integrity?

MB's Windows Security — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:03:44 GMT

...some people started noticing that when they download a file from IE7 (or other low-integrity processes), the file isn't marked with a low integrity, but rather with a medium integrity. So why is that? Read More......(read more)

Microsoft Announces No Patches for March

MB's Windows Security — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:36:32 GMT

Apparently because currently planned releases did not meet testing standards, Microsoft decided to postpone all patches for this month, so you can all let next Tuesday roll by like any other Tuesday Read More......(read more)

Blog of Windows Security Blogs

MB's Windows Security — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:21:18 GMT

New Windows security blog aggregator. Read More......(read more)

IIS7 Security Features

MB's Windows Security — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:20:12 GMT

IIS 7 security features. Read More......(read more)

How to Guess an Admin’s Password Without Them Knowing You Are Trying

MB's Windows Security — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:30:38 GMT

Explains an old trick on how to guess someone else's password without anything getting logged in the domain controller's event logs Read More......(read more)

Two New Vista Papers by Symantec

MB's Windows Security — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:35:24 GMT

Today Symantec released two new whitepapers about security protections in Vista: Analysis of GS Protection in Windows Vista and Analysis of Address Space Layout Randomization on Windows Vista. Although my last blog post criticized Symantec for its hyped...(read more)