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June 2006 - Posts

How can I be sure that Internet Explorer 7's Phishing Filter will respect my privacy?

The Internet Explorer Team Blog includes a post covering this very subject. Due to many people asking the very question "can I trust IE's Phishing Filter not to infringe my privacy" they commissioned a third party privacy auditing specialist to assess Read More
posted Friday, June 30, 2006 12:06 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
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Ooooh here's a nice toy - a blue tooth enabled watch

Thanks to Hoop for posting about this rather interesting gadget. Thanks to Engadget for the image - browse to their site to read more. It's a Bluetooth enabled watch. I really like the idea. It looks rather large for every day wear but the idea of talking Read More
posted Friday, June 30, 2006 9:34 AM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
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How to list running processes and kill them via the command line

Thanks to James for letting me know that there's an easy way to list and kill processes from the Windows Vista command line. Back in the days (pre-Microsoft) when I was an UNIX network administrator I often used the command "ps -ef" to list the running Read More
posted Friday, June 30, 2006 8:31 AM by Steve Lamb | 7 Comments
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User Account Control is there for your own good - using least privilege is a good thing!

As Jesper wrote in his "Please don't disable security features, at least while we're testing them" post User Account Control makes it easier for regular (non-technical) people to operate their systems with the minimum of privilege. I never log in interactively Read More
posted Thursday, June 29, 2006 5:03 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
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Steve Horne's Machinima video showing why it's important to Patch your systems is now available

As Sabot mentions on Channel9 Steve Horne's Machinima video showing Hoards of Giant Man Eating Penguins is receiviving much acclaim. It's a short funny video using Machine Animation (Machinima) to deliver a powerful message as to why it's important to Read More
posted Wednesday, June 28, 2006 1:57 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
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Bill Hilf has published an annotated version of his Keynote from LINUX World - it's on Port25

Bill was the first Microsoft employee to deliver the LINUX World Keynote. As you may know Bill's closely with the LINUX community over the years and hence he has an excellent perspective on the benefits of different approaches to software development. Read More
posted Wednesday, June 28, 2006 1:46 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
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Ah the wonders of English / American - one language? such different meaning!

This made me smile and deserved to be shared... I've just stumbled across a "personal bug portal, designed to make your bug list easier to manage and a bit more fun." - it's named "Bugg*r" :-)   Read More
posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 10:57 AM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
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It may be a Dark Rainy Monday morning but I feel so Lucky - I've won a holiday and a fortune!

I've been browsing through my junk email - I'm not quite sure why I'm bothering to do so though sometimes I find a couple of entertaining messages. I particularly like the one that starts "Dear Member, you've been selected for a free holiday...", which Read More
posted Monday, June 26, 2006 7:59 AM by Steve Lamb | 3 Comments
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Would you like the TechNet team to visit a venue near you? Where would you recommend?

The following image is displayed on the WilliamsF1Conference Centre site - aside from the flash looking venue I've heard from many of you in the last couple of months that it's a great venue. We're actively looking for your recommendations of WHERE (which Read More
posted Wednesday, June 21, 2006 11:59 AM by Steve Lamb | 13 Comments
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At last we're producing security messages that real people (the general public) can make sense of!

At last - an interface for real people - i.e. those that aren't technical security experts. The following dialog message is part of Windows Vista   The built-in Windows Vista personal firewall settings are automatically configured according to Read More
posted Wednesday, June 21, 2006 11:11 AM by Steve Lamb | 4 Comments
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I Love this - MOOWA - Outlook Web Access that MOOs when you receive a new message!

KC posted a wonderful MOOWA entry showing how to set Outlook Web Access (OWA) that takes on a Cow theme AND it MOOs when you receive new messages. OK so this has nothing to do with security but I had to share it. Thanks to KC for sharing and also supplying Read More
posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 4:41 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
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Announcing Internet Explorer 7+ for Windows Vista

The IE Team blog have announced that Internet Explorer running on Windows Vista will be known as Internet Explorer 7+ (IE 7+) to distinguish it from IE 7 on Windows XP. This makes sense to me as the prime additional feature of Internet Explorer on Read More
posted Tuesday, June 13, 2006 10:36 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
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We've released ISA Server 2006 and the "Forefront" brand for security products

The PressPass announcement provides details of both the release of ISA Server 2006 and the ForeFront security product brand. I'm really pleased that ISA 2006 has been released as I've spent quite some time implementing it in the lab and have found the Read More
posted Monday, June 12, 2006 3:42 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
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No I don't want any additional auto insurance, free ring tones or sexual embelishment

Like Steve Riley I'm fed up with receiving a large number of spam comments on my blog. I've just returned from a lovely holiday in the Yorkshire Dales to a large number of nonesense spam comments on this blog. Also like Steve I believe in free speech Read More
posted Monday, June 12, 2006 3:35 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
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Why Don't Real People understand information security

Many Information Security people have mused why on Earth "Real People" (i.e. those without propellers) simply don't "get" security. Jesper's written a thought provoking article on the very subject. Like Jesper I've worked in Information Security for Read More
posted Monday, June 05, 2006 12:31 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
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