Steve Lamb's Blog : January 2006

January 2006

Search

News

The information in this weblog is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. This weblog does not represent the thoughts, intentions, plans or strategies of my employer. It is solely my opinion. Inappropriate comments will be deleted at the authors discretion. All code samples are provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose.

If you'd prefer to talk rather than type then please feel free to contact me on the following number - remember that I'm based in London!

+44 7812 980621

The current mood of stephlam at www.imood.com

Post Categories

Disclaimer

Please read

Interesting Security Blogs

MSFT Evangelists

Other Blogs

Misc

January 2006 - Posts

How to solve the CreateFile() error encountered when applying SCW policy via the command line (scwcmd configure)

Security Configuration Wizard has a really handy command line as I'll demonstrate in an upcoming BlogCast. To apply an SCW policy you can issue the "scwcmd configure" command. Unlike the other scwcmd commands "configure" does not default to applying Read More

posted Tuesday, January 31, 2006 4:37 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
Filed Under: Blogs, How to Articles, Security Systems, Information, Information Security, Social Engineering

How to dramatically reduce your system's Attack Surface - Use Security Configuration Wizard

SCW is an abbreviation for Security Configuration Wizard which is a means of turning off the features of Windows Server that aren't required by YOUR applications. SCW takes the guess work out of which services you can turn off, which network ports Read More

posted Monday, January 30, 2006 9:17 PM by Steve Lamb | 3 Comments
Filed Under: How to Articles, Security Systems, Webcasts, Websites, blogcasts, Information, Information Security

There's a great White Paper detailing how to run Windows XP with the least privilege

Browse here to view the paper titled "Applying the Principle of Least Privilege to User Accounts on Windows XP" - it give a good explaination of how to reduce the amount of time both you and your users need to be logged in with Administrative privileges. Read More

posted Wednesday, January 25, 2006 6:48 PM by Steve Lamb | 3 Comments
Filed Under: How to Articles, Security Systems, Whitepapers, Information, Information Security

What to do when you're presenting and are running out of time?

If you ever give presentations I'm sure you've experienced the problem of having far to much to say in the allocated time. You perhaps practise the talk to get the timings right and then in the heat of the moment find yourself adding annecdotes and extra Read More

posted Monday, January 23, 2006 1:45 PM by Steve Lamb | 3 Comments
Filed Under: How to Articles, Information

Windows Vista's looking really good

Last week I was fortunate enough to be able to join many Microsoft techies at an internal conference in Seattle - a bit like TechEd / IT Forum except that the audience all work for the company. We spent the week working with the product groups to learn Read More

posted Friday, January 20, 2006 6:05 PM by Steve Lamb | 5 Comments
Filed Under: Information, Information Security

It's amazing how fast time passes - blogs.technet.com is a year old

Thanks to Tony Soper for reminding us that TechNet Blogs are a year old and that there are 336 blogs there now. Many people moved over from the MSDN blog site and many more are new. Read More

posted Thursday, January 19, 2006 4:05 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
Filed Under: Blogs, Websites, Information

Do you ever receive telephone calls from your Bank asking for your PIN?

I've heard of this happening from time to time but I've never experienced it myself until just now... I received a telephone call from a Bank with whom I have an account - they asked me to tell them two digits from my security code so that they could Read More

posted Thursday, January 19, 2006 10:25 AM by Steve Lamb | 4 Comments
Filed Under: How to Articles, Security Systems, Information Security, Social Engineering

How to extract a file from an ISO image

There's a free tool that enables you to view the contents of an ISO image and extract individual files. The tool is named "Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP" - it's not supported though so please bear that in mind. Browse here to download the Read More

posted Wednesday, January 18, 2006 7:09 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
Filed Under: How to Articles, Information