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Michael Howard's Web Log

A Simple Software Security Guy at Microsoft!

January 2005 - Posts

SAFER and Internet Explorer
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...
Interesting set of "Protect yourself online" articles
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...
Digital Blackbelt Series: Defend your code from attacks
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...
Trustworthy Computing @ 3
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...
Browsing the Web and Reading E-mail Safely as an Administrator, Part 2
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...
Cryptographically Secure Random number on Windows without using CryptoAPI
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...
Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware Beta One Available for download..
Just in case you missed the news: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx . Read More...
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