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Where can I find out about Phishing trends and combat measures?

The Anti-Phishing Working group site is an excellent resource as it contains details of everything you (OK most people!) could ever want to know about Phishing. The site includes an interesting paper titled " Online Identity Theft: Phishing Technology, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 09, 2006 10:49 AM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments

The InfoSec slides ARE NOW available - broken links are now fixed

Browse here to access the slides yourself. This follows yesterday's post which indicated that the links were broken - thanks to Craig et al who verified the problem. Read More...
Posted Friday, May 05, 2006 11:16 AM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments

Traffic information MashUp

Click here to play with the Traffic Information MashUP - and here to find out what a MashUP is! In layman's terms a MashUp is where you (as an application developer) build upon an existing application - the term comes from DJ's mixing music samples. Try Read More...
Posted Friday, April 07, 2006 3:52 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments

Security Quick Reference - here's a list of security resources for IT Pro, Dev and Consumers alike

Security Quick Reference Guidance The Security Guidance Centers provide the most prescriptive security guidance Microsoft has to offer as well as security tools, security response information, such as security bulletins and virus alerts, to assist in Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 6:47 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments

Here are some Online Technical Security resources that will help you keep up with Microsoft Security Innovations

The Microsoft Security Newsletter is a monthly electronic newsletter that's tailored for IT Professionals and Developers to provide the latest Microsoft Security news together with tips for getting the most from our products. The Security Webcast Calendar Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 6:02 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments

Tricks tips and shortcuts to help you get the most from your infrastructure - check out the updated blogcast repository

Brian Tucker is doing a great job of helping the IT PRO community to help itself by hosting your short video demonstrations of how to solve technical problems - otherwise known as blogcasts. The beauty of blogcasts is that you can easily create them for Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 29, 2006 7:11 AM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments

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 can Read More...
Posted Monday, January 30, 2006 9:17 PM by Steve Lamb | 3 Comments

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
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Windows Server Release 2 (R2) is available for download

The official launch of Windows Server 2003 R2 (Release 2) took place earlier this week (Tuesday 6th December) - we'd planned to make the software available for download immediately available though unfortunately there was a short delay in getting the Read More...
Posted Friday, December 09, 2005 3:51 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments

How to Secure wireless networks?

A good point of reference is http://www.microsoft.com/wifi as you'll find a wealth of best practise advice there. Another good source is the current TechNet Magazine which can be accessed both online (you can download the entire thing) and in print too Read More...
Posted Friday, December 02, 2005 11:08 AM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments

Looking for advice on developing secure applications?

The MSDN UK Evangelist team have worked with the best practise experts throughout the company to bring you a developer-centric website which you can access by clicking here . There's some good content on the site and it's presented in an easily accessible Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 01, 2005 4:42 PM by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments

Free Hands on lab for Rights Management - try it for yourself

The following resources make it easy for you to get to grips with Rights Management - enabling you to share more with less risk. General business and technical information - www.microsoft.com/rms - RMS 2-min flash demo – http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/demos/rms.html Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 30, 2005 8:41 AM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments

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

The GetSafeOnline tour is coming to a City near you very if you're in the UK

Tony Blair kicked off the Get Safe Online campaign at a press launch in London this morning. Microsoft in partnership with the UK Government and a many large companies are evangelising the importance of information security to the entire UK population Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 27, 2005 5:15 PM by Steve Lamb | 4 Comments

Thanks to everyone who joined our Blogging Session last night

Eileen and I thoroughly enjoyed explaining and demonstrating the various aspects of blogging. Eileen posted an entry earlier today containing all of the links to sites and tools used last night. I showed you how to set up a blog and post on MSN Spaces Read More...
Posted Friday, October 14, 2005 4:42 PM by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
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