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I am not a security expert but the following are some resource and links that I think are useful in this area. Thanks to anyone that has brought one of these things to my attention. Articles and documentation Hardening web services [in Windows Server Read More...
FTP server resets, WSAECONNABORTED (10053) and other nasty stuff on Windows Server 2003
If you are seeing issues where your Windows Server 2003 based FTP server is unexpectedly resetting connection it may be a manifestation of this problem: Error code when you run a network program that uses a Winsock connection on a computer that is running Read More...
Useful document about .NET Framework 2.0 Security
The US NSA have a free, unclassified, 300 page, very useful looking document about .NET Framework 2.0 Security: http://www.nsa.gov/snac/app/I731-008R-2006.pdf HTH Doug Read More...
Should I Authenticode sign my .NET assembly?
This question arose out of a support case that my colleague Susanne and I handled recently for one of our customers. The situation was that the first request to an ASPX page was taking in excess of 15 seconds whereas subsequent requests were very fast Read More...
Does DEP/NX affect web applications?
A while a go when I posted about the .NET Framework 3.5 and 2.0 SP1 being available for download, Kima posed an interesting question in the comments. Kima asked whether the new enforcement of NX compatability by the C# compiler after the application of Read More...
Orcas, Longhorn and more
[ update 20:43 27/4/7 - apologies to those reading via RSS if this is a duplicate, but I felt compelled to fix the typo pointed out by Mike as well as various other typos caused by writing a blog entry before the first coffee of the day!] I don't know. Read More...
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