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April 2006 - Posts

Why Phishing Will Remain Lucrative For The Foreseeable Future

Posted Monday, April 24, 2006 8:19 AM by jesper
Today I received a message that purports to be from Discover regarding a 5% cashback program on gas purchases on that card. (For the non-American readers, Discover is a credit card widely used in the U.S.). The e-mail had a couple of links to click, both Read More...
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Some Password Policy Settings Are Not Enforced When Disconnected

Posted Friday, April 21, 2006 11:45 AM by jesper
This is a post I was asked to do a while ago and have been procrastinating on. I apologize for that. For various reasons, every so often, certain FAQ items come up again. One of them is whether certain password policies are enforced when a system is not Read More...
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"Temporary" Administrators

Posted Wednesday, April 19, 2006 5:14 PM by jesper
Several times in the past year someone has brought up an issue where they needed to "temporarily" grant someone administrative privilege to a system or a domain. Each time my answer has been the same: "why not just put them in the Administrators group Read More...
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A Fathers Pride

Posted Monday, April 17, 2006 11:12 AM by jesper
Every parent knows that the main reason you have kids is for the comic relief they provide. However, watching them grow up is also fascinating. Yesterday my oldest son, who is now seven and a half, and I were sitting in front of the TV when he asked what Read More...
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A Book on Just Passwords

Posted Monday, April 17, 2006 8:00 AM by jesper
Recently I was standing in a Geek bookstore in Sydney, trying to burn half an hour between meetings, when a book on passwords caught my eye. Naturally, given my somewhat odd interest in passwords, I picked it up to see if I had head of it before. Given Read More...
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RFID tags on Credit Cards? Is this a good idea?

Posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 1:26 PM by jesper
Bruce Schneier has been a very vocal opponent of the move to put RFID tags, or at least ones without security, on passports. For instance, there is this blog post , and this article . Passports are, of course, interesting, particularly when you have to Read More...
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TechEd Presentations

Posted Wednesday, April 05, 2006 1:35 PM by jesper
It appears I will be at TechEd in Boston this year after all. There are precious few sessions going around. Attendees have voiced a desire to hear more external speakers so the MS people are getting fewer sessions this year. Steve Riley (henceforth known Read More...
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