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05 March 08 12:47 PM
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Eric Fitzgerald
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There's one topic that I know is on everyone's mind- no, not American Idol - it's "What's new in Auditing in Windows Server 2008?" Well, funny that you brought that up. My friend Jesper Johanssen just wrote a new book, the Windows Server 2008 Security
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ACS Tidbits
01 February 08 05:04 PM
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Eric Fitzgerald
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Well there has been a lot happening on my old project, ACS (Audit Collection Services, a feature of SystemCenter Operations Manager 2007 ). Two more of our partners, Enterprise Certified and NetPro , have released compliance solutions on top of ACS. Another
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German court bans retention of logged IP addresses
03 October 07 10:53 AM
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Eric Fitzgerald
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A German court has ruled that a government web site may not retain IP addresses and other personally identifiable information (PII) in their logs for any longer than the user is actually using the site. The judges pointed out that in many cases it was
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Ensuring that there's no useful data in your logs...
31 August 07 02:23 PM
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Eric Fitzgerald
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As I wrote about earlier, TorrentSpy, a file-sharing search engine, was ordered by a U.S. magistrate to enable logging on its servers and to subsequently make those logs available to the MPAA, the plaintiff in an illegal file-sharing lawsuit against TorrentSpy.
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Voting Machine Logs + e-Government Laws = No Secrets When Voting
22 August 07 02:08 PM
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Eric Fitzgerald
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Researchers in the state of Ohio in the United States have discovered that by analyzing the logs produced (by law) from e-voting machines used in certain counties, they can determine the vote(s) each voter made . Further, the logs, by law, must be produced
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AT&T Team Up With Apple to Create Large-Scale Log Forwarding System Using Paper & US Postal Service
12 August 07 01:43 PM
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Eric Fitzgerald
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070811-iphone-bill-is-surprisingly-xbox-huge-lol.html Fortunately for customers they strip out all the interesting details that would make it useful to, well, anyone.
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EZ-Pass Logs Used in Divorce Cases
10 August 07 03:41 PM
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Eric Fitzgerald
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This one kind of speaks for itself. I guess this is more of a privacy issue than a logging issue. http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_222140553.html
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Draft law in Germany may force telcos & ISPs to gather logs; Gmail Germany may shut down as a result
26 June 07 04:26 PM
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Eric Fitzgerald
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A draft law ( English translation ) being proposed in Germany to enforce the European Mandatory Data Retention Directive of 2006 would require telcos, ISPs, and email service providers to track and retain data necessary to trace and identify the source,
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*Not* generating logs is not an option... when you're under subpoena
11 June 07 02:10 PM
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Eric Fitzgerald
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Working as I do for a company that exists because of copyright, I'm not particularly sympathetic to TorrentSpy, a search engine company that is accused by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) of helping to enable copyright infringement by
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We're #294!
08 February 07 06:06 PM
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Eric Fitzgerald
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Woohoo! Thank you all for helping push my humble prose into the limelight. Our little community is now in the top 10% of the most accessed blogs on MSDN. We'd probably be a lot higher if I got off my lazy behind and wrote more often. Anyway the monthly
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A good 3rd-party reference to the Windows security event log
20 March 06 11:31 AM
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Eric Fitzgerald
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Randy Franklin Smith has a site with a very good reference to security event log events. Randy also does training on Windows security log analysis.
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EU Passes New Log Retention Rule for Telcos
14 December 05 12:55 PM
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Eric Fitzgerald
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The BBC reports that the European Parliament has approved rules, as an anti-terror measure, to require telephone companies to retain call and internet records for two years. I do not know if Windows-powered telephony switches exist, but even if they do
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Auditing Flaw in Microsoft SQL Server 2000
05 December 05 04:26 PM
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Eric Fitzgerald
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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;910741
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