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How to share printers between Windows and LINUX systems

For those of you who struggle to make your Microsoft Windows and LINUX systems "play nicely with each other" I can highly recommend reading a recent post on Microsoft's Open Source Lab blog which is named Port25. For those of you who struggle to make Read More...
Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 5:16 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments

How to make time for blogging

Thanks to Hugh for posting about PhilTube . In particular there's a great sketch depicting a guy trying to make time for blogging - now clearly it's a bit of fun but many people tell me that while they'd like to blog that they just don't have the time. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 2:00 AM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments

How to stop Instant messenge communications from embarassing you

There's a really handy feature in Windows Live Messenger as illustrated below that prevents instant message notifications from interrupting you while presenting. This feature should be useful any time you want to share the contents of your screen with Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 9:56 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments

microsoft softgrid application virtualisation will be included in Window's vista's desktop optimisation pack

James has published a post that gives a nice summary of the contents of the upcomming Microsoft Desktop Optimisation Pack . This pack will be available to software assurance customers using the Enterprise Edition of Windows Vista. I'm particularly excited Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 11:45 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments

How to burn an ISO image onto a CD - how to upgrade your computer's BIOS

There are a wealth of third party CD Burning utilities out there on the market though not everyone has one on their machine. Windows XP can natively burn files to CD without any additional software HOWEVER it can't create a bootable CD. I'm upgrading Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 11:52 AM by Steve Lamb | 4 Comments

All you ever wanted to know about Windows Vista's Bitlocker drive encryption and secure start up technologies

Bitlocker is the feature of Windows Vista that I'm asked about more than any other. There follows a list of links to an excellent series of resources covering BitLocker in technical detail. Before I get to the guides I'd also like to refer you to the Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 2:07 PM by Steve Lamb | 2 Comments

If you're in Newcastle (England) today and would like to talk about security then come and meet the GetSafeOnline team

GetSafeOnline is a partnership between Government, Law Enforcement and Commerce - in excess of fifty people have volunteered our time to get out on the road for a week. Our focus is to raise the security awareness of the UK consumers so if you have a Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 9:53 AM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments

Early notice about an upcomming training course titled asp.net exploits and countermeasures

NxtGenUG and Dinis Cruz from IOActive have teamed up to run two 2 day "Advanced ASP.NET Exploits and Countermeasures" training courses. One will be held in London and one in Birmingham. The courses will be in-depth training on learning how sophisticated Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 9:50 AM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments

How to view 2007 Office System ("Office 12") documents in Office System 2003

I'm running two machines at the moment - one's running a recent build of Windows Vista RC1 and the other's running Windows XP. As you may know, the file format used by the upcomming version of Microsoft Office is different from that used in previous versions. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 04, 2006 3:18 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments

Windows Vista step by step deployment guides are now available

Simply browse to the Windows Vista Step by step guides to read details of how to make the most of the management and security features. The following guides are available: Deploying Vista Step by Step Guide Managing Group Policy ADMX Files Step by Step Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 21, 2006 4:08 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments

Why can't I find the Parental Controls on Windows Vista?

As I wrote about yesterday the Parental (Family Safety) controls on Windows Vista provide comprehensive access control features. Shortly before visting someone to demonstrate these features I decided to run through them once again on my own - to my horror Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 4:12 PM by Steve Lamb | 4 Comments

The latest internal build of Windows Vista is REALLY GOOD

It's a significant improvement over the last Community Technology Preview (CTP) - i.e. that which is available to MSDN & TechNet subscribers. It's not had the same level of testing hence it's not suitable for you to play with and we're getting really Read More...
Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 6:29 PM by Steve Lamb | 2 Comments

Ever wondered why SSL works for some sites and not others? Welcome to the Microsoft Root Certification Programme!

If you're not a crypto geek then don't be scared - read on! If this makes as much sense as boiling icecream then please let me know and I'll explain it in simpler terms - just hit the "comment" button. When you visit a website via HTTPS you're viewing Read More...
Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 6:00 PM by Steve Lamb | 4 Comments

Where should you start when considering Information Security?

Ron's comment asking "if it's all about risk why do we call it Information Risk Management" has certainly made me think... It's all very well for "security thinkers" to tell you all about all kinds of weird and wonderful threats to your information and Read More...
Posted Friday, August 11, 2006 7:17 PM by Steve Lamb | 7 Comments

What advice would you give to Chief Information Officers to improve the effectiveness of Information Security?

I was recently asked for suggestions to give to Chief Information Officers to improve their security posture. My suggestions were as follows - I'd love to hear your comments to see what you'd suggest: Here are my five tips for CIOs: Challenge everything Read More...
Posted Monday, August 07, 2006 6:19 PM by Steve Lamb | 10 Comments
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