March 2005 - Posts

Windows Server 2003 SP1 is now available
30 March 05 09:15 PM

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=22CFC239-337C-4D81-8354-72593B1C1F43 'nuff said! Read More...

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Clinic 2806: Microsoft Security Guidance Training for Developers
28 March 05 02:28 PM

I'd totally forgotten about this, but Microsoft eLearning has made available, "Clinic 2806: Microsoft Security Guidance Training for Developers" It's a free on-line clinic that lasts about 6 hours aimed squarely at developers. It covers, among other things: Read More...

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Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) document is now live
18 March 05 03:26 PM

This document outlines the security-related process improvements we have put in place at Microsoft.We've been working on defining this for about two years now, and I'm really excited that we've now made it public :) http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/sd Read More...

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Hotmail and SAFER bug
15 March 05 11:02 AM

So we've found a small bug in Hotmail when using the SAFER/IE stuff (big thanks to Kody Dickerson to alerting me.) Turns out Hotmail will hang when you start it up if you have Hotmail running under a SAFER context, and MSN messenger running as the "normal Read More...

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Steve Friedl's Unixwiz.net Tech Tips: An Illustrated Guide to Cryptographic Hashes
15 March 05 10:35 AM

This is a great resource if you want to get your head around how hashes work... http://unixwiz.net/techtips/iguide-crypto-hashes.html Read More...

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