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Hi , I had an interesting issue with a customer recently. After a recent promotion of a couple of Domain Controllers , it came to light some time later that users were able to set their passwords to 0 e.g. minimum password length = 0. On investigation
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Hello Again, I got a really good tip from a Colleague Richard Diver the other day which helps verify whether a customer had the conficker virus. This was a tip passed on to him by Lesley Kipling a Senior Support Engineer within Microsoft Security team
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I had a few “Hit the button at the wrong time” issues :) with my post about Security Essentials the Other day. So I wanted to make a few things clear. 1. This is the replacement for ONECARE – although we will be supporting customers until the end
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Hi Everyone, If you have received this Security Alert 971492 and you wish to verify whether your IIS 6.0 Web Servers have the Webdav Extension enabled, then please see below for a useful script which you can run across your environment. Please of course
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One of the most interesting and thought Provoking sessions I attended @ Teched was by Laura Chappell. Her session on Internet Safety was absolutely excellent plus also her session on "Why the network is slow ". This can be viewed from this location webcast
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My two boys are growing up fast and as a consequence are using the computer more and more. I think I am a responsible parent who is pretty Internet and security savvy and ensure they are exposed to an Internet Environment that I monitor and control. However
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I seem to be on a run of recommending books, oh well must be that time of year. Anyway one fact you my not know about me is that I used to be in the Royal Navy working in Radio Telecommunications. Therefore I have a background in using Cipher and One
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John Westworth has a nice blog on the advantages of downloading the updated version of Windows Defender . I heartily recommend this as I find one of the most annoying aspect of surfing is the amount of potential spyware that pollutes your p.c. and eventualy
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I like learning new words. Especially ones that have multiple connotations. The word Steganography is a great example of this. I came across this word when I was reading around security techniques and variations on cryptographic techniques. The discussion
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There was recently some articles in the press that received allot of coverage regarding UK Bank details being sold in Nigeria, due to the fact that old recycled PCs had not had their hard disks adequately wiped. Well this got me thinking as both in my
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I came across at the weekend a really interesting article on Wserver News The article that caught my eye talks not only about Bump Keys , but also the physical security, or lack of it for laptop locks . It certainly made me sit back and think, especially
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