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Thursday, February 24, 2005 9:38 PM

Microsoft Announces Baseline Security Analyzer v2 Beta

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer V2 Click to get the download.
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Thursday, February 24, 2005 9:36 PM

Is Google a prefered Hacking Tool ?

Latest Mydoom shows hackers using search engines for attacks - Computerworld I just picked up a book called “Google Hacking” on a simular subject matter. Very creative !
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Thursday, February 24, 2005 9:34 PM

Computerworld - Phishing Attack Impersonates the FBI

This Phishing Attack is particularly bold in that it impersontaes the FBI – check it out! New virus being distributed in fake FBI e-mail - Computerworld New virus being distributed in fake FBI e-mail
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Monday, February 21, 2005 4:21 PM

We don't ALL Lie to our Customers !

A team mate of mine recently posted about lying to his event attendees . I just want to go on the record for MY North Eastern USA Event Attendees that most of the MSDN Events guys, and certainly those on the EAST COAST - don't indulge in this practice.
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Friday, February 18, 2005 11:45 AM

TODAY : Digital Blackbelt Series: Building an Intentionally Secure Development Process [Resources Posted]

Session Description: Before implementing the technical Tips & Tricks of Secure Code, we must understand how our organization will design, manage, develop, confirm, and maintain secure software from an organizational and developmental lifecycle perspective.
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Saturday, February 12, 2005 7:30 PM

YOUR INPUT PLEASE: Digital Black Belt - Developing an Intentionally Secure Lifecycle.

So… My next Digital Black Belt topic is developing an Intentionally Secure Software Development Lifecycle. I’m struggling! Almost all the time as a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft, the core content for the sessions that we present “comes in a can”.
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Tuesday, February 08, 2005 7:10 AM

SECURITY- Standard Phishing Attack Example.

It's called Phishing - I got this one in my MSN.com email account this morning. In a seminar recently a developer asked me for an example of how Phishing works and I thought this was a good typical example - so I'd bog it. NOTICE: Never Click on a Link
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Monday, February 07, 2005 1:40 PM

ON-DEMAND: Digital Blackbelt Series: Session #1 The Software Security Crisis

Is now available for viewing on demand. Here : http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032267275&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US * This event was Recorded on Friday, February 04, 2005 * MSDN Webcast:
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Monday, February 07, 2005 1:38 PM

How to download Microsoft Webcasts

How to download Microsoft Webcasts Some of the Microsoft Webcasts are available for On-Demand viewing in LiveMeeting but to for download and “Disconnected Viewing”. Here Georgeo will tell you how to save the webcast to your local disk for
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Monday, February 07, 2005 12:25 PM

Open Directory Project - Hacking website directory.

Open Directory - Computers: Hacking
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Monday, February 07, 2005 12:24 PM

Think you're a REALLY good programmer ? | Happy Hacking Keyboard

PFU Limited | Happy Hacking Keyboard
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Monday, February 07, 2005 10:43 AM

Podcast, Shoutcast, Streaming, Internet Radio, Audio Blog, etc, etc,

My buddy Carl Franklin ( Author , Trainer , Geek Radio Celeb , and Start-Up Business Wiz ) sort of skipped the blogging craze and jumped right to the excitement around all the different ways to broadcast audio over the net. (This was probably an intuitive
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Monday, February 07, 2005 9:20 AM

UPDATE-DORK AWARD: Java creator James Gosling (via Don Box)

Don writes ... Huge Security Hole in Solaris and JVM "I wonder how Gosling feels about Solaris and the JVM , both of which support execution of C and C++ code" AWESOME !
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Monday, February 07, 2005 7:11 AM

A skinnable MSN Messenger-like popup in C# or VB.NET

Not a new article, but a cool way to add a sexy feature to your app. A skinnable MSN Messenger-like popup in C# and now in VB.NET too - C# Controls TaskbarNotifier, a skinnable MSN Messenger-like popup in C# and VB.NET
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Sunday, February 06, 2005 10:08 PM

SecurityFocus Home Page

SecurityFocus Home Page
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Sunday, February 06, 2005 10:06 PM

Digital Information Society

Digital Information Society – Phreak.org
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Sunday, February 06, 2005 10:05 PM

.:[ packet storm ]:. - http://packetstormsecurity.org/

.:[ packet storm ]:. - http://packetstormsecurity.org/
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Sunday, February 06, 2005 10:04 PM

Whitehats Network Security Resource

Whitehats Network Security Resource
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Sunday, February 06, 2005 9:59 PM

RootKit.com

Rootkit.com ROOTKIT The Online Rootkit Magazine Software Security Articles, Blogs, and Forums. Site founded by Greg Holland – Co-Author of…… Exploiting Software – How to Break Code
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Sunday, February 06, 2005 9:55 PM

InvisibleThings.org

invisiblethings.org – Cool Security Anti-Hacking Site
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Sunday, February 06, 2005 3:28 PM

This made me check under my desk :)

Keystrokgrabbers.com – You might wanna check your connections every once and a while !
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Sunday, February 06, 2005 2:36 PM

Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification

Staying on Top of Security !! Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification Updated: February 3, 2005 On February 8, 2005, the Microsoft Security Response Center is planning to release: •9 Microsoft
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Sunday, February 06, 2005 2:25 PM

DORK AWARD: Java creator James Gosling

Read this: Huge security hole in .NET: Java creator: ZDNet Australia: News: Security – James Gosling Sore looser or WHAT ? Don’t get me wrong. There is much that I find interesting in Java, and while its evolution seems to have stagnated some, they’re
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Sunday, February 06, 2005 1:45 PM

PERL: Perl Reference Books

There is something about Perl for tinkering and “quick & dirty” work that other scripts just don’t seem to rise to. Since I pretty much focue on Security amd Interop these days I’m finding myself back in my Perl library. Here are some of the usefull
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Sunday, February 06, 2005 1:25 PM

A few links for fellow irreverent tinkerers.

A few links for fellow irreverent tinkerers. Blacklisted 411 2600 The Hacker's Quarterly DefCon Hacker's Conference LayerOne Technology Conference InfoAnarchy CryptoMail TextFiles.com Binary Revolution Dig Magazine Nuts & Volts Magazine Phrack Magazine
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Sunday, February 06, 2005 10:57 AM

Books: Whale Done! : The Power of Positive Relationships

Amazon.com: Books: Whale Done! : The Power of Positive Relationships My Boss ( MikeO ) asked me to give this book a read. I’ve spent most of my career dividing my time between Technology, which I lobe, and management, with I haven’t like so much – but
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Saturday, February 05, 2005 8:03 PM

T E X T F I L E S D O T C O M

T E X T F I L E S D O T C O M Cool – ASCII ONLY site for old-time hackers.
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Saturday, February 05, 2005 7:55 PM

Home PC Firewall Guide

Home PC Firewall Guide Cool coverage of persoanl firewalls, broadband security issues, etc.
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Saturday, February 05, 2005 7:53 PM

PDAStreet: Special Reports: Mobile Malware: The Brief History

PDAStreet: Special Reports: Mobile Malware: The Brief History Cool article on the History of Makware (Trojans, Virus, etc) on PDAs and SmartPhones.
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Saturday, February 05, 2005 2:31 PM

Heading off hackers - Computerworld

Article Heading off hackers - Computerworld
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Saturday, February 05, 2005 2:30 PM

Computer Security Institute

Interesting Article from the Computer Security Institute on creating security policies that really work.
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Saturday, February 05, 2005 1:58 PM

Now THATS a cool PC Case !

ASUS Vento PC Case I fried a power supply in one of my home brew machines last night – so I’m spinning up another wrencing project and I want to start with this case ! What do you all think ???
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Saturday, February 05, 2005 7:59 AM

My Home Office - For SB

Since we’re showing off home offices – here’s mine. Sorry SB, I can name them all and their configurations.
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Friday, February 04, 2005 12:33 PM

VerizonWireless - You Suck !

So, I’m home with Pneumonia, and my wife is confined to bed rest after having surgery, but….. I had to make a trip to the pharmacy to pick up some more of the medication they put me on for my lungs. The pharmacy is right across the street from the VerizonWireless
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Friday, February 04, 2005 12:08 PM

Books, Books, Books ...

SB - The first photo was just the ones I got Tuesday. THIS is my Security Bookshelf....... .... and this is my normal bookshelf.
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Friday, February 04, 2005 10:17 AM

Today's Digital Black Belt Webcast Downloads are ready!! - ARE YOU REGISTERED ????

Digital Black Belt Series Kick-Off TODAY !!!!! To Register for today's Web Cast [ Click HERE ] To Download the Deck & Code [ Click HERE ]
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Friday, February 04, 2005 9:33 AM

Doing all the Research for my upcoming DigitalBlackbelt Web cast series has me jazzed up. I dropped into SoftPro Books in Waltham last tuesday - MAN I Hate that place. Cost's me a fortune !
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Friday, February 04, 2005 9:24 AM

Dork of the Week Award goes to - eWeek's David Coursey

Full article here - A 'Genuine' Pain in the Neck His Opinion: Microsoft's upcoming switch to a mandatory OS authentication asks too much of Windows users. God forbid we choose not to support people who STOLE our software in the first place. Hey Dave -
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Friday, February 04, 2005 9:20 AM

Gates promotes government cooperation with security focus - Computerworld

Gates promotes government cooperation with security focus - Computerworld Gates promotes government cooperation with DigitalBlackbelt.com focus Microsoft today unwrapped its new DigitalBlackbelt.com Cooperation Program
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Friday, February 04, 2005 9:13 AM

SoftWIRE is now FREE !!!

With SoftWIRE, scientists, students, technicians, and novice-level or non-programmers can create complete .NET-based applications quickly, easily, and without programming. Downloads/information: www.softwire.com I worked with these guys when I was an
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Thursday, February 03, 2005 9:18 PM

Digital Black Belt Series - 1st White Belt Class Tomorrow !!!!!

Please Join Me !!! Opening Session Tomorrow [Friday] REGISTER NOW: http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/events/series/digitalblackbelt.mspx
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Thursday, February 03, 2005 10:04 AM

Super article on Password Salting !

Check out the three awesome posts on Password Salting over on Eric Lippert's blog. They start here: http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2005/01/28/362587.aspx
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Thursday, February 03, 2005 9:54 AM

Another example of how working at Microsoft ROCKS !!

I just woke up after the closest thing to a nights sleep I’ve had in Months and I confess to being somewhat heavily medicated. On with the post….. Microsoft is the #1 Software Company on the planet, and as a result, it’s become fashionable to hate Microsoft
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Wednesday, February 02, 2005 8:50 PM

A bit of Security Geek Hero Worship.

I'm in my 40's and been a developer for 30 years - so I'm not prone to hero worship...... But I'm I HUGE geek-fan of Keith Brown. His Security books are on the TOP SHELF of my "arms reach" reference bookshelf and he's a great presentation speaker. So
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Wednesday, February 02, 2005 7:31 PM

Official Guidelines for User Interface Developers and Designers

After my Tuesday event I got into a stimulating conversation with a Developer Best Practices Manager from a Major Bank and it got me sort of jazzed thinking about Software Engineering Excelence (I spend most of my time with Developer DigitalBlackbelt.com
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Wednesday, February 02, 2005 3:40 PM

Hiahhhhhhhh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The first session om my Digital Black Belt Developer DigitalBlackbelt.com Webcasts Series !! THIS FRIDAY !!! GET YOUR BLACK BELT ! - Register to win a Personal Digital Media Player. Sign up here : http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/events/series/digitalblackbelt.mspx
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