All over the internet and blogshpere there are varying opinions, bordering on religious fanaticism, of which OS is the best. I obviously have my opinion too. There has been a lot of work done around trying to quantify what constitutes the best way to...

I’ve been trying to be more active on my blog now that I have made time for it.  But with the holidays upon us, I may skip a week or two. ;-) Above all, I wish everyone a happy holiday season and an excellent new year!

So first off, Thank you to Jim Manico for his comment on my previous post which lead me to create this post. I will includes quotes from Jim’s comment for reference here. JM : “ I think you are terribly wrong, and its important we clear this up .”...

I recently posted an article on our ACE Team blog (you can read it here if you are interested) There were a few comments about the use of Dynamic SQL that made me realise that not everyone “get’s it” yet. Here are the comments that started the discussion...

I’ve been noticing a disturbing trend lately. Everyone is so hard up to get on the Internet Advertising band wagon and make their millions that they have given up providing content. In fact when you look at a lot of “news sites” it seems that they don...

I just posted an article to our team blog about simple development rules to stop the bad guys. Head over and have a read. You can find the post on the ACE Team blog . I know it’s a repost, but sometimes it beats re-writing. ;-)

Ok, I’ve been trying to keep my cool on this whole thing but enough is enough. A few days ago ars technica ran a hype-story called “First commercial tool to crack BitLocker arrives” (no, I’m not going to link to it because they don’t deserve the traffic...

You know if you travel a lot, the law of averages says that you have a higher chance of things going wrong on a trip. For example, getting a bag lost or a missed flight. Well that happened to me yesterday. I was on my way up to Brissie. My flight from...

Yesterday, I did a presentation at a customer site for their lunch time security talks. It was about Web 2.0 and protecting yourself online. One of the things I mentioned in my talk was how much people are trusting, blindly, what they see on the social...

I was reading through the Cenzic Web Application Security Trends Report for Q1/Q2 2009 . Very interesting results. Now, I define interesting a bit differently. People LOVE to throw mud at Microsoft. They think we are the only company who has vulnerabilities...

Well, Canberra isn’t exactly a huge city, and because of that, well that and the fact that it’s populated by politicians who go home on the weekends, it tends to lag behind in tech and modern conveniences.  Today when I met Jeffa36 at the Canberra...

I was looking for cool security stuff on the Internet as I do, and I came across this story The Futility of Security By Obscurity on Dark Reading that pointed me to this online search engine called Shodan created by John Matherly . Shodan is an online...

Well, I posted the previous one from OneNote/Word after a lot of messing around with the picture settings. After following documentation red herrings I discovered that I had to supply my own picture hosting service. I had to do this because the MSDN blogs...

I've decided to use OneNote as my blog writing tool as I work with OneNote almost daily. It's an easy way to paste thoughts from what I'm working on into blog posts. With any luck, OneNote will be my one stop editor for just about everything except code...

I've been working through all the new features of Office 2010 and discovered that I can blog from OneNote…. Now THAT is a feature I can abuse. Of course, it means I have to have time to actually post to my blog more. Although with any luck, that will...

Well the moment we’ve been waiting for is here. Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 has officially been released to manufacturing. That means we’re now just waiting for the packaging machines. Brandon LeBlanc posted a video about the RTM and sign-off process in...

Hi Gang, Well things are lining up nicely for Tech Ed AU/NZ 09. I was finally able to finalise the security track. This year one of our highlight speakers is Michael Howard . Michael will be running two sessions on the SDL for us and a special 1/2 day...

Several times when I've been talking with customers about implementing an SDL, or what they should be doing to secure their in-house developed applications, I get asked a similar branch of questions. · Why do we need to review the design if we review...

Bing and the world Bing’s with you, Search and you Google alone… I must admit I wasn’t a real huge fan of the search results that I got with Live. But I think someone was listening. We introduced Bing to the world and I have to tell ya, it’s all it’s...

Hello everyone! Well Security Camp Oz is on once again this year. After a bit of a break due to well, chaos, we’re all ready to go again. If you’d like to attend, check out the new web site at http://www.securitycampoz.com and submit your registration...

                  The Tech•Ed 2009 season kicks off next week in LA, and the show comes to Australia and New Zealand in mid-September. We’ve just opened the Call for Content tool so now’s the time to submit...

NOTE: The views and opinions expressed herein in no way reflect those of my employer or colleagues. They are all my own and I take responsibility for them. I read a little article recently about a guy name Rob Spence in Canada who plans to install a camera...

Well with Windows 7 coming up, there’s been a bit of talk around Bitlocker To Go.(BTG) BTG is essentially Bitlocker for external drives. It’s full volume encryption for all your USB drives. Jeffa and I have been talking about it quite a bit recently...

Recently I’ve been giving presentations at the Canberra Security Interchange Group meetings about hacking, Web 2.0 and other security things.  The last one was an introduction on rootkits. I’m pleased to say that the interest was high so I’ll be...

Catchy title huh? But what do I mean by that. Hackers take advantage of this kind of chaos, are you ready? You know when your grandma told you to save your pennies for a rainy day, well the rain is here…a lot of it. In case you hadn’t noticed, a large...