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Thursday, July 23, 2009 11:51 AM

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM is Official

Well the moment we’ve been waiting for is here. Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 has officially been released to manufacturing. That means we’re now just waiting for the packaging machines. Brandon LeBlanc posted a video about the RTM and sign-off process in
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 12:55 AM

Tech Ed Security Track News

Hi Gang, Well things are lining up nicely for Tech Ed AU/NZ 09. I was finally able to finalise the security track. This year one of our highlight speakers is Michael Howard . Michael will be running two sessions on the SDL for us and a special 1/2 day
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 12:04 AM

Security Features vs Security Bugs

Several times when I've been talking with customers about implementing an SDL, or what they should be doing to secure their in-house developed applications, I get asked a similar branch of questions. · Why do we need to review the design if we review
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Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:17 PM

Finally, answers on the Web – Bing

Bing and the world Bing’s with you, Search and you Google alone… I must admit I wasn’t a real huge fan of the search results that I got with Live. But I think someone was listening. We introduced Bing to the world and I have to tell ya, it’s all it’s
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Thursday, June 11, 2009 6:31 PM

Security Camp Oz on Again!

Hello everyone! Well Security Camp Oz is on once again this year. After a bit of a break due to well, chaos, we’re all ready to go again. If you’d like to attend, check out the new web site at http://www.securitycampoz.com and submit your registration
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 10:31 AM

Tech Ed AU/NZ Call for content – Security Track

                  The Tech•Ed 2009 season kicks off next week in LA, and the show comes to Australia and New Zealand in mid-September. We’ve just opened the Call for Content tool so now’s the time to submit
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Friday, March 13, 2009 3:28 PM

Stop Looking At Me You’re Invading My Privacy!

NOTE: The views and opinions expressed herein in no way reflect those of my employer or colleagues. They are all my own and I take responsibility for them. I read a little article recently about a guy name Rob Spence in Canada who plans to install a camera
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Sunday, March 01, 2009 8:57 PM

Bitlocker To go

Well with Windows 7 coming up, there’s been a bit of talk around Bitlocker To Go.(BTG) BTG is essentially Bitlocker for external drives. It’s full volume encryption for all your USB drives. Jeffa and I have been talking about it quite a bit recently and
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009 10:02 PM

Toolbar with Trojan sauce

Recently I’ve been giving presentations at the Canberra Security Interchange Group meetings about hacking, Web 2.0 and other security things.  The last one was an introduction on rootkits. I’m pleased to say that the interest was high so I’ll be
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009 11:58 AM

The Storm is Rising

Catchy title huh? But what do I mean by that. Hackers take advantage of this kind of chaos, are you ready? You know when your grandma told you to save your pennies for a rainy day, well the rain is here…a lot of it. In case you hadn’t noticed, a large
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Thursday, January 15, 2009 11:36 AM

Get Well Steve J.

All kidding and competition aside, Steve Jobs is a pioneer in the industry. Finding a niche that created a strong fan-base among Apple consumers. Get Well Soon. http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/14/technology/apple_jobs/index.htm
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 10:07 AM

Conficker Removal with MSRT

1. Symptoms to help you determine if you are infected · Account lockout policies are being tripped · Domain Controllers are being hammered · Network congestion · Sluggish Client Behavior 2. Steps to help you recover Patch and clean – apply MS08-067 and
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 10:02 AM

Manual removal of Conficker

Conficker Clean batch file including MSRT ================================ Microsoft support has created a simple batch file, ConfickerClean.txt , that can be used to help removal of the malware on workstations and remediate some of the collateral damage
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Thursday, January 08, 2009 6:04 AM

Against the Clueless

A while ago I went with a work colleague of mine when he presented at a user group meeting.  To cut to the chase, there was a Mac bigot there. Of course, as all Mac fanboys, he felt he had to attack us because we work for Microsoft.  Now I'm
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Sunday, August 31, 2008 10:37 PM

Guest appearance of...ME

For some of out Tech Ed Promotion. Jeff Alexander has recorded some Vodcasts/VideoBlogs/Etc.  He did save the best for last of course. Which means that he posted his interview with Me at: http://blogs.technet.com/jeffa36/archive/2008/08/31/teched-vodcast-interview-with-rocky-heckman.aspx
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