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August 2007 - Posts

Technical Tips and Insights on MS07-049 and MS07-044

Jonathan's team from MSRC, researches potential mitigations and workarounds as part of the comprehensive investigations they do for each security bulletin. They regularly discover information that could help customers better understand how to protect Read More...
Posted Monday, August 27, 2007 8:58 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Wndows Security - Code Signing: Is it a Security Feature?

Code signing is a mechanism whereby publishers of software and content can use a certificate-based digital signature to verify their identities to users of the code, thus allowing users to decide whether or not to install it based on whether they trust Read More...
Posted Monday, August 20, 2007 8:22 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Windows Security - A Microsoft PKI Quick Guide

A very good structured and complete quick guide to MS PKI. Also includes many references and examples. http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Microsoft-PKI-Quick-Guide-Part1.html http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Microsoft-PKI-Quick-Guide-Part2-Design.html Read More...
Posted Monday, August 20, 2007 8:18 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Study Finds Spammers' Weak Spot

Junk email distributors are much more vulnerable at the receiving end than at the sending end, research finds. A given spam campaign may use thousands of mail relay agents to deliver its millions of messages, but it may use only a single server to handle Read More...
Posted Monday, August 13, 2007 10:04 AM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

What your hard drive can tell ID thieves

Many people believe that when they dispose of their old computer, the files they've erased from the hard drive are gone forever. Wrong. ConsumerReports.org bought a handful of drives on eBay and tried to recover old files by running simple and inexpensive Read More...
Posted Monday, August 13, 2007 9:59 AM by chsecblo | 2 Comments

Pharmacy spam king Rizler hit with 30 year jail sentence

Christopher Smith, nicknamed "Rizler", was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Experts at IT security firms have welcomed news that a notorious spammer who made millions of dollars selling medications online has been sent to jail. A lot less of these V1@GR@"mails... Read More...
Posted Monday, August 13, 2007 9:51 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Windows Vista 64Bit non-signed driver install tool (atsiv) blocked

The third party kernel mode driver named “Atsiv” provides a mechanismto load code that conflicts with the Kernel Mode Code Signing (KMCS) policy included in Windows Vista x64 editions. In Windows Vista x64 editions, the default KMCS policy is to only Read More...
Posted Monday, August 13, 2007 9:45 AM by chsecblo | 1 Comments
 
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