April 2005 - Posts

Security Management - Windows, Linux Security Notifications
27 April 05 04:17 PM

A colleague of mine at Microsoft, Jeff Jones, has written a thought provoking couple of articles on security patches/bulletins/errata and 'customer pain'. He does this primarily to help improve the security update experience for Microsoft customers, by Read More...

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A couple of good/upbeat news items - all this work is paying off!
25 April 05 12:56 PM

Worm Lull, Windows XP SP2 Keeping Outbreaks At Bay http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/161501182 "It seems that a more secure Windows environment is one of the main reasons for the relative quiet during the first quarter of this year." Windows Server Read More...

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Office Smart Tags for CVE and Microsoft Security Bulletins
13 April 05 06:48 PM

While diddling around with Office Smart Tags, I decided to build a couple to handle MS bulletins and CVE/CAN vulnerability numbers. Just save the two XML files below, and drop them into C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Smart Tag\LISTS and Read More...

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Hell Hath No Fury...
12 April 05 03:14 PM

I'm not sure if it's because my 20month old daughter kept me awake last night, or the lack of coffee today, but it's been a slow day. Then I read this http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22460 , and it made me giggle! Read More...

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Protect Your Windows Network: From Perimeter to Data
12 April 05 12:14 PM

A couple of good buddies of mine, Jesper M. Johansson & Steve Riley, have written an excellent book, "Protect Your Windows Network: From Perimeter to Data" which should be available late May '05. You can read more here http://www.awprofessional.com/title/0321336437 Read More...

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Repel Attacks on Your Code with the Visual Studio 2005 Safe C and C++ Libraries
12 April 05 11:30 AM

Martyn Lovell has written a paper about the Safe C and C++ libraries coming in Whidbey. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/05/SafeCandC/default.aspx Read More...

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In Praise of Windows Server 2003 SP1
06 April 05 03:04 PM

Nice article :) http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/312 Read More...

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My Recent Spyware Experience
04 April 05 12:17 PM

A few months ago a neighbor (the mother of the family) asked me to take a look at their computer running Windows XP. It had slowed noticeably, and they had a nasty case of “pesky popups.” But to make matters worse, they had discovered a stash of really Read More...

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