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Teaching Security to Developers

Thanks to everyone @ VBUG Birmingham last night for making me so welcome. I was greated with lots of Halloooween pumpkins - one of which was carved with a semi-colon in it rather than a face - a C# joke apparently! I delved into how Malware gets onto Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 01, 2005 2:45 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments

Security Myths - read an extract of the upcoming book titled Protect Your Windows Network

If you'd like more information to help dispel security myths in your organisation then I suggest you take a look at an extract from the upcoming book "Protect Your Windows Network" which was written by Jesper M. Johansson and Steve Riley. You can download Read More...
Posted Friday, May 13, 2005 3:32 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments

Security in operation article looking at the Security notifications for Microsoft Redhat and Novell Suse

How do you compare and make sense of the security vulnerability announcements from different vendors? Jeff Jones's short article looks into the way Redhat, Novell Suse and Microsoft announce vulnerabilities in their software and suggests how to ensure Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 12, 2005 3:20 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments

The Windows Security Resource Kit Second Edition is available

Credit where it's due, John Howard's post about the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit inspired me to make this one. The brand new "Microsoft Windows Security Resource Kit Second Edition" has just been released. It's a really good book. I was sad enough Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 21, 2005 6:31 AM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments

How to write secure code

Since the Trustworthy Computing initative Microsoft developers have been writing code following the guidance and coding practises documented in "Writing Secure Code". The book is now in it's second edition which includes practical advise following experience Read More...
Posted Friday, April 15, 2005 1:12 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments

Great Comment from Bruce Schneier "we tend to worry about the spectacular and rare rather than common events such as spose abuse and automotive accidents"

Bruce Schneier gave a interesting podcast promoting his new book Beyond Fear . Lots of common sense and yet highly relavent information and some great quotes including the following: "More people are killed per year by pigs than by Sharks" - based on Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 04, 2005 4:17 PM by Steve Lamb | 4 Comments

Protecting Your Windows Network - paths hackers can use to infiltrate networks

Steve Riley @ Jesper Johansson are writing a book titled "Proecting Your Windows Network" - an interesting except can be found I found here Read More...
Posted Monday, November 22, 2004 3:59 PM by Steve Lamb | 3 Comments