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SQL Injection General Guidance
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over 6 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
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There s a lot of noise arround currently ongoig SQL injection attacks and even if that is quite an "old" topic, there are still a lot of unprotected servers out in the cloud. This has nothing to do with vulnerabilities in the products (Webserver, database...
Windows Server 20008 Active Directory Certificate Services Upgrade and Migration Guide
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over 6 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
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Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) provides customizable services for issuing and managing public key certificates used in software security systems that employ public key technologies. This document discusses the planning and implementation...
Thoughts of a Teenage Bot Master
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over 6 years ago
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One day in May 2005, a 16-year-old hacker named "SoBe" opened his front door to find a swarm of FBI agents descending on his family's three-story house in Boca Raton, Florida. With an arm and leg in casts from a recent motorcycle accident, one agent grabbed...
Hackers Find a New Place to Hide Rootkits
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over 6 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
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Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer's microprocessor, hidden from current antivirus products. Called a System Management Mode (SMM) rootkit, the software runs...
Virtual machines aren't really more secure
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over 6 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
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Roger A. Grimes: "I've been at several recent conferences where virtual machine (VM) and security “experts” were telling audiences how VM technology can be used to improve computer security. Wow! They are either drunk on the marketing Kool-Aid, misinformed...
Draft guidance for securing servers (NIST)
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over 6 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking comment on its draft guidelines for securing servers, released this week. NIST Special Publication 800-123, "Guide to General Server Security," makes recommendations for securing server...
Microsoft Expands Security Information Sharing Program to CERTs
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over 6 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
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Today at the annual AusCERT Asia Pacific Information Technology Security Conference, Microsoft Corp. announced the extension of the Microsoft Security Cooperation Program (SCP) to include computer emergency response teams (CERTs), computer security incident...
Windows Server 2008 Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT)
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
1
Comment
RSAT is the collection of Windows Server 2008 management tools which enable IT professionals to manage their Windows Server infrastructure from their PCs running Windows Vista with Service Pack 1. Where to Install: • Microsoft Remote Server Administration...
Cyber-Attacks and Cyber-Disasters: Are You Prepared?
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
Have you seen the recent television commercial that shows the Pentagon and says, "This building gets attacked 3 million times a day." The sad news is that it's true. Cyber-warfare and cyber-attacks have now become a reality. Ever consider how your...
Critical infrastructure central to cyber threat
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
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The United States is increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks that could have catastrophic effects on critical physical infrastructure and severely damage the country’s economic, military, and strategic interests, cybersecurity specialists said today....
Microsoft is winning the NAC war, expert says
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
1
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Security guru Joel Snyder from Opus One recently starred as the guest of a live Network World chat where he discussed the state of network access control. Snyder says that Microsoft is emerging as one of the clear winners of NAC, but that Microsoft's...
Securing the Internet's DNS
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
The Internet is slowly inching closer to ratcheting up the security of its Domain Name System (DNS) server architecture: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN ) plans to go operational with the secure DNS technology, DNSSEC, later...
Application Lockdown with Software Restriction Policies
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over 6 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
1
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When IT professionals look to reduce the total cost of ownership, or TCO, of their desktop machines, there are two key strategies that often come to mind. The first one is to get your desktop users' accounts out of the Administrators group. And the second...
The Great Debate: Security by Obscurity
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over 6 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
Security by obscurity is, in a nutshell, a violation of Kerckhoffs' Principle, which holds that a system should be secure because of its design, not because the design is unknown to an adversary. The basic premise of Kerckhoffs' Principle is that secrets...
Managing the Windows Vista Firewall
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
2
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If you're an IT pro who is looking a bit more seriously at Windows Vista for your enterprise environment, you should take a close look at the firewall. Once you realize what the Windows Vista firewall can do, you may want to renegotiate the agreement...
Microsoft Botnet-hunting Tool Helps Bust Hackers
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over 6 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
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Botnet fighters have another tool in their arsenal, thanks to Microsoft. Microsoft is giving law enforcers access to a special tool that keeps tabs on botnets, using data compiled from the 450 million computer users who have installed the Malicious...
Advances in BitLocker Drive Encryption
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
What's new in Windows Vista SP1 or Windows Server 2008 Bitlocker? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc510321.aspx Urs
New Elevation PowerToys for Windows Vista
Posted
over 6 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
Run as Administrator for third-party scripting tools Run as Another User Prompt Here as System for CMD and Windows PowerShell Drag-and-drop Elevation Gadget http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc510320.aspx Urs