Steve Riley on Security : September 2008

September 2008 - Posts

Passgen tool from my book: Way back in 2005, Jesper Johannson and I wrote Protect Your Windows Network . It’s still available , and although its product set is now somewhat dated (Windows XP and Server 2003), much of the practical advice about security policies, social engineering, Read More...
Posted 29 September 08 01:42 by Steve Riley | 8 Comments
Filed under my book, passwords
Sao Paulo, here I come: I have a new TechEd destination this year: Brazil. It’ll be my first time to speak at our event there; indeed, even my first time to travel to South America. I’m looking forward to it. The event runs during 14-16 October 2008 . I’m delivering the same Read More...
Posted 29 September 08 10:31 by Steve Riley | 14 Comments
Filed under TechEd
Internet Explorer security levels compared: A pretty good question came across the newsgroups the other day. Someone was asking what are the differences between IE's "medium" and "medium-high" security settings. I did some digging, and found only this on MSDN: About URL security Read More...
Posted 16 September 08 05:19 by Steve Riley | 6 Comments
Filed under Internet Explorer, configuration
The opt-out from hell: One problem with making your email address available (which I will continue to do, don't worry) is that folks with something to sell assume you're interested in their stuff. To wit, let's consider an email I received today (copied, headers and all, after Read More...
Posted 16 September 08 12:22 by Steve Riley | 7 Comments
Filed under email, public policy, spam, things that make me angry, advertising
Blamestorming: So, let's recap the sequence of events: The Sun-Sentinel newspaper in Fort Lauderdale accidentally republishes a six-year-old news story about the bankruptcy of UAL. It wasn't on the home page, but instead buried somewhere inside the web site. Google's Read More...
Posted 11 September 08 11:03 by Steve Riley | 4 Comments
Filed under false claims, public policy, things that make me angry, threats
Who is "dodacrazy" and what is a "montize buddy"?: Check this out: http://blogs.technet.com/steriley/archive/2008/06/25/directly-connect-to-your-corpnet-with-ipsec-and-ipv6.aspx#3122377 Hey Steve you and your montize buddy Scott will soon have your hands full after the federal officers come down on your Read More...
Posted 11 September 08 03:53 by Steve Riley | 3 Comments
Filed under blogging, things that make me laugh