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Last June I didi a series of interviews with Alun Rodgers of Risual about the cool stuff in Windows Server 2008. In one of these.. Alun is telling me about how Terminal Services (now known as Remote Desktop Services, RDS, in Windows Server 2008 R2) could
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There is so much stuff on Windows7 & 2008 R2 features out there, but not so much on IIS 7.5. The other reason it slipped off my radar was that reporting services in SQL Server 2008 directly uses http.sys for its portal and there is no longer
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Reading today’s Sun , you might well be worried if your kids are on FaceBook, but taking their laptop away is probably not going to be the correct response, as they’ll simply find another way to get online which is less under your control than what they
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Security should be everyone’s business, but it’s often seen as someone else’s problem. When it comes to SQL Server there are at least three parts to the puzzle: The infrastructure guys will provide secure comms and accounts with which to access
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Microsoft’s new consumer orientated anti-virus program Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) has now been released. It’s free so so is it any good? I am going to say empathically yes, because essentially it’s the anti-virus engine from Forefront
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I noticed a new tool appeared last week from Sentrigo that scrambles SQL Server passwords so that they cannot be seen in plain text by the DBA. This is to address a supposed vulnerability in SQL Server 2000/5 where by allowed memory dumps which
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While all of us IT Professionals work hard to make the infrastructure as secure as possible, we largely have to live with the security we are given, be it in the operating system, attendant drivers, or applications., Of course it’s developers who create
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I just got this.. Tax Refund Notification After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity, we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of 188.50 GBP. Please submit the tax refund request and allow 6-9 days in order to process
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It’s a sad fact that anti virus software is an essential part of using a computer in toady’s connected world, and many people baulk at paying extra for this , although it has never been that expensive. Microsoft have released a beta of what was Morro,
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Lying is generally not a good thing, but as I was ordering something for my neice’s birthday I was asked to enter my date of birth and deliberately put in the wrong date. I can only imagine that the store concerned saw this as added security but I’m not
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DeepZoom is a cool technology for er zooming into photographs. Some fun loving security guys (yes we do exist) have come up with a security game using this technology.. To play go to IT Insecurity, on the TechNet site and if you
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It’s tough trying to work from home with the feeble broadband speeds that exist in many parts of the UK. I get 0.5mbps when I am paying for 8 (which is still poor even allowing for how far I am form the exchange) and so I often have to travel just to
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Hopefully the Getting Safe OnLine message is getting out there and you are ensuring that all computers are properly protected both at work and at home. But what about security worries when you’re offline, we all get statements from banks and utilities
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Every 6 months Microsoft publishes a freely available Security Intelligence Report (SIR) , looking at what’s happening to threaten the security of our personal and corporate computing. Mostly it‘s written in English and if you can’t find the time to read
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Deletion on computers is often a bit of a sham, as I found out when I got in at the ground floor of forensic computing a long long time ago. Back then file systems were very lazy so when you deleted something all that happened was the file system
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