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Friday, October 10, 2008 10:12 AM

Never, ever run executables which arrive unexpectedly by mail.

I had this waiting for me on my home PC this morning. From: Microsoft [mailto:customerservice@microsoft.com] Sent: 10 October 2008 02:25 To: {My home account} Subject: Security Update for OS Microsoft Windows Dear Microsoft Customer, Please notice that
Posted by jamesone | 3 Comments
Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:40 AM

A novel password policy

Setting up some demo servers recently Steve and I tripped over the Windows 2008's default password policy: it needed to be relaxed to get to easy password we use in demos. Steve advocates pass-phrases "IHateChangingmyPasswordEvery30Days" is
Posted by jamesone | 0 Comments
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 5:38 PM

Security, Security, Security.

The story last week that someone had left a secret folder of documents on a train - which were then given to the BBC brought back memories for me. Shortly after my wife and I had moved into our first house, she brought home a brown paper envelope she
Posted by jamesone | 5 Comments
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 5:23 PM

Core! that firewall management has some tricks.

Quite a lot of the last few days has gone into preparation for the Road-Show and making sure I had all the things right for show Windows Server Core. Core, as you probably know by now, is server 2008 with support of only a subset of features, and most
Posted by jamesone | 0 Comments
Friday, February 22, 2008 12:04 PM

While you were sleeping ... an attack on bitlocker etc

I'm always suspicious of people talking down security vulnerabilities, but I don't like to see them over-hyped  either; so I'm going down the former path. You are allowed to be skeptical. A couple of people have mailed me this morning about this
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Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:32 PM

Vista vulnerabilities - a comparison.

Perhaps it's a bit strong to say "if complete and utter chaos was lightning, Jeff Jones would be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards' " (as a favourite quote has it) but you must
Posted by jamesone | 6 Comments
Sunday, December 09, 2007 11:36 AM

Vista SP1 to drop "Reduced functionality mode"

I guess I'm not the only person in Microsoft who thought that stopping software working when it seemed to be pirated was a good idea. To be honest, I still do. However, the process has to be infallible. If it's 99.9% correct and you sell 100 Million copies
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Tuesday, December 04, 2007 10:08 AM

Do you trust your search engine ?

No, not a question about the information Google keeps on you... Catching up on my news stories from last week I found Hackers hijack web search results - which was "a campaign to poison web searches and trick people into visiting malicious websites".
Posted by jamesone | 0 Comments
Thursday, November 01, 2007 2:46 PM

A police state ?

I've talked about serendipity a few times before. And a couple of strands in the News today show it at work. The information commissioner has served notices on 4 polices forces telling them that some information they hold about people is no longer relevant
Posted by jamesone | 6 Comments
Thursday, November 01, 2007 12:19 PM

Security and blogging.

This would normally be one for Steve, but he's got a few days away... Kim Cameron's blog got hacked; normally I'd just say "Blog hacked: Film at Eleven ". Except Kim is a big noise in the Microsoft security world. ZDNet broke the story , and the comments
Posted by jamesone | 1 Comments
Thursday, October 18, 2007 10:41 AM

Windows Activation (Server 2008 style)

One of the things we've done with Windows over the years is to try to make life a bit harder for people who pirate it. This isn't just about protecting Microsoft's revenue (or even keeping that revenue out of the hands of criminals) but investigations
Posted by jamesone | 9 Comments
Monday, October 08, 2007 9:54 AM

One of those "Oh no" moments

Someone was asking me about gadgets, and went off looking for something and turned up a page at Gadgets.co.uk innocently in a corner is something which you'd expect to find in Q's lab in a James Bond movie, but not in the "Amuse your friends by plugging
Posted by jamesone | 4 Comments
Saturday, May 05, 2007 3:10 PM

Privacy. And a tale of headless riders, Police blogs and security theatre

When dealing with data privacy, we need to think about proper use of Personally Identifiable information (PII) - the kind which can be used to identify someone and which tells us something about them. In the UK, the Information Commissioner , oversees
Posted by jamesone | 4 Comments
Friday, April 27, 2007 2:38 PM

Rights managed mail. Windows Mobile 6 pulls a new trick.

Digital rights management get a bad press. To most of us, as consumers of music or video it's something which limits what we do. We can tell right from wrong, we don't need stuff to limit us ... right ? Of course People who create "intellectual property"
Posted by jamesone | 0 Comments
Thursday, January 18, 2007 4:30 PM

Ooops. I gave out some duff information about limiting logons

As Eileen has already said our team spent last week at the BETT show . My first "proper" IT job after leaving university was working for RM who are the biggest supplier of IT to education and I did a couple of BETT shows when I worked for them; it's the
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