Laurentiu Cristofor's blog @microsoft.com : October 2009

Finding information about which account xp_cmdshell is running as: If you ever needed to debug a permission related issue when using xp_cmdshell, you have probably realized that a crucial piece of information is about what particular account xp_cmdshell is executing under. If you are the administrator of the database, Read More...
Posted 27 October 09 02:24 by lcris | 0 Comments
Filed under SQL Server - general, SQL Server - security, SQL Server
bing adds twitter integration: See it work at: http://www.bing.com/twitter . [UPDATE 10/22/2009]: Reactions: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/rt-google-tweets-and-updates-and-search.html http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-well-what-do-you-know-google-is-actually-nervous-about-microsoft-bing-2009-1 Read More...
Posted 21 October 09 12:59 by lcris | 0 Comments
Filed under search engines, bing
New attack on AES-256: A new attack improves significantly on previous attacks against AES-256, see: http://schneier.com/crypto-gram-0908.html#8 . This doesn't mean that AES-256 is broken yet, but the surprising bit here is that AES-128 is not susceptible to this particular Read More...
Posted 14 October 09 05:05 by lcris | 0 Comments
Filed under SQL Server - cryptography, computer security, encryption

Laurentiu Cristofor's blog @microsoft.com