January 2005 - Posts

SAFER and Internet Explorer
31 January 05 11:44 AM

I've received some great feedback from my " Browsing the Web and Reading E-mail Safely as an Administrator, Part 2 " article, but a number of people asked how they can get started without using the tool. Here's some text I want to add to the article: Read More...

Postedby michael_HOWARD | 30 Comments    

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Interesting set of "Protect yourself online" articles
25 January 05 10:50 AM

I just bumped into this while doing my morning, "what's going on on the 'net today" http://computercops.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=categories&op=newindex&catid=95 Read More...

Postedby michael_HOWARD | 2 Comments    

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Digital Blackbelt Series: Defend your code from attacks
21 January 05 11:24 AM

I just got notified of a series of Webcasts coming up, aimed at software developers; this is good, because a lot of the guidance from us has been aimed at IT and infrastructure folks. Sign up at http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/events/series/digitalblackbelt.mspx Read More...

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Trustworthy Computing @ 3
20 January 05 08:39 PM

It seems like only yesterday we kicked off TwC! Oh, how time flies when you're having fun! There's a press statement that seems to have sneeked out at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/jan05/01-13TWCupdate.asp outlining a fraction of some Read More...

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Browsing the Web and Reading E-mail Safely as an Administrator, Part 2
17 January 05 02:55 PM

In November 2004 I posted an article to MSDN entitled, " Browsing the Web and Reading E-mail Safely as an Administrator ". The amount of positive commentary and feedback was staggering, which made me write the follow-up to this article a little faster Read More...

Postedby michael_HOWARD | 22 Comments    

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Cryptographically Secure Random number on Windows without using CryptoAPI
14 January 05 04:31 PM

Historically, we always told developers not to use functions such as rand to generate keys, nonces and passwords, rather they should use functions like CryptGenRandom , which creates cryptographically secure random numbers. The problem with CryptGenRandom Read More...

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Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware Beta One Available for download..
06 January 05 11:41 AM

Just in case you missed the news: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx . Read More...

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