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December 2004 - Posts

How does Kerberos work? Free webcast discussing Microsoft Authentication technologies and strategy

Buried away on the Microsoft website is a really good webcast which delves into the technical details of how Kerberos works - to access the free session simply follow the URL listed below: http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/shared/asp/view.asp?url=/Seminar/en/20030424vcon44/manifest.xm Read More
posted Friday, December 31, 2004 4:53 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
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Chat with Microsoft Security experts to discuss Windows Firewall as part of Windows XP SP2

Using and Managing the Windows XP SP2 Windows FirewallJoin Microsoft experts from the Windows Firewall product group to discuss the Windows Firewall in Windows XP SP2. The Windows Firewall product group can answer questions about anything from configuration Read More
posted Friday, December 31, 2004 4:49 PM by Steve Lamb | (Comments Off)
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UK Tsunami Donations are worth an extra 28% or 40% as they qualify as GiftAid

If you're a UK tax payer then your donations to registered charities will qualify for tax relief meaning that an extra 28% will be added by the Inland Revenue for regular tax payers and 40% for higher tax payers. The charity can claim back the tax you Read More
posted Friday, December 31, 2004 12:44 PM by Steve Lamb | (Comments Off)
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Strategies for enhancing password security - use pass phrases instead.

Bruce Cowper has posted an interesting article discussing Passwords and Passphrases following Bill's keynote @ ITForum last month. Clearly we'd all like to see the back of passwords as they are unfriendly to users. In time technology may make it feasible Read More
posted Thursday, December 30, 2004 3:46 PM by Steve Lamb | (Comments Off)
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Microsoft Anti-Spyware Preview and Discussion of how it compares to SpyBot & Ad-Aware & why it's better

Paul Thurrot has posted an article which includes comments following an "interview with Giant co-founder Andrew Newman just days before his company was purchased by Microsoft". The article is well worth a read - here are a couple of excerpts: "We decided Read More
posted Thursday, December 30, 2004 12:40 PM by Steve Lamb | (Comments Off)
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First hand experience of Microsoft Anti-spyware software from GIANT Company acquisition

Browse to http://blogs.msdn.com/benriga/archive/2004/12/28/338992.aspx for an interesting review of our upcoming anti-spyware software - Ben shares is experience of using the beta code. Read More
posted Wednesday, December 29, 2004 11:00 AM by Steve Lamb | (Comments Off)
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Free webcast detailing Windows XP SP2 Security Enhancements including network security, RPC restrictions and DCOM improvements plus the no execute feature which uses hardware buffer overun prevention

TechNet Webcast: Windows XP Service Pack 2 Security Technologies - (Level 200) Friday, January 07, 2005 - 9:00 AM-10:30 AM Kai Axford, Security Specialist, Microsoft Corporation Are you taking advantage of the most current tools and resources to protect Read More
posted Monday, December 20, 2004 10:28 AM by Steve Lamb | (Comments Off)
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Free webcast to discuss of Microsoft's strategy to mitigate the threat of spyware

Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Security360 with Mike Nash: Keeping an Eye on Spyware - (Level 200) Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 9:00 AM-10:00 AM Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President Security Business & Technology Unit, Microsoft Corporation Security360 Read More
posted Monday, December 20, 2004 10:20 AM by Steve Lamb | (Comments Off)
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Free Webcasts detailing how to protect your network from the latest attacks using Internet Security & Acceleration Server (ISA) 2004

Join us for a week of webcasts to learn how ISA Server 2004 is uniquely optimized to protect your network environment against the latest forms of attacks - specifically those at the application later.    You will receive a technical view Read More
posted Monday, December 20, 2004 10:14 AM by Steve Lamb | (Comments Off)
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How to deal with Spyware - Microsoft acquires anti-spyware technology

"Microsoft plans to make available to Windows customers a beta version of a spyware protection, detection and removal tool, based on the GIANT AntiSpyware product, within one month. The upcoming beta will scan a customer's PC to locate spyware and other Read More
posted Thursday, December 16, 2004 4:46 PM by Steve Lamb | 2 Comments
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The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security

Keith Brown has published a very interesting guide to Windows Security - the twist is that it's available both as a convential book and here as a wiki. For those of you who are not familiar with the concept of a Wiki there's a good defn & explaination Read More
posted Monday, December 13, 2004 4:32 PM by Steve Lamb | (Comments Off)
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Did you miss ITForum Europe this year? Good news - we're running an ITForum Highlights session on 13th Jan '05 and you can attend for free!

John Howard's just posted an article advertising the event which will take place in Birmingham. Speakers will include Eileen Brown,  John, and myself. I've copied the following from John's article: Free Technet IT Forum Highlights all-day event Read More
posted Monday, December 13, 2004 1:01 PM by Steve Lamb | (Comments Off)
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Microsoft IT Attack and Penetration Testing Team

The Microsoft® IT Showcase website includes a new article detailing our approach to assessing the security compliance of our internal systems. Techniques and methodologies are discussed to limit the points of exposure whilst addressing the unique Read More
posted Monday, December 13, 2004 12:09 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
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Why do most firewalls only inspect packet headers?

The vast majority of firewalls on the market don't inspect the payload of packets - instead they attempt to make decisions based on source address, destination address and the port of the traffic. Historically many people took the port to be a statement Read More
posted Monday, December 13, 2004 12:01 PM by Steve Lamb | (Comments Off)
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Load Balancing a Rights Management Server Cluster using Network Load Balancing

The Microsoft® IT Showcase website is a great resource for learning how we secure our environment at Microsoft. MicrosoftIT provide a managed highly available Information Rights Management (IRM) solution for employees use worldwide. A new article has Read More
posted Monday, December 13, 2004 11:44 AM by Steve Lamb | (Comments Off)
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How we at Microsoft Secure our own infrastructure

Ever wondered how we secure our own infrastructure? The ITShowCase website provides IT Professionals with the low down on how we develop, deploy and manage our enterprise technology solutions. The site contains both business decision maker suitable Read More
posted Monday, December 13, 2004 11:22 AM by Steve Lamb | (Comments Off)
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What Security topics would you like me to BlogCast about?

Eileen Brown has just posted an interesting article on her Blog which explains a new technique we're going to use to share snippits of content as she explains in the following extract of her post: "Sometimes there just isn't time to view a whole Webcast, Read More
posted Thursday, December 09, 2004 6:09 PM by Steve Lamb | 2 Comments
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