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November 2005 - Posts

Wednesday, November 30, 2005 8:41 AM

Free Hands on lab for Rights Management - try it for yourself

The following resources make it easy for you to get to grips with Rights Management - enabling you to share more with less risk. General business and technical information - www.microsoft.com/rms - RMS 2-min flash demo – http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/demos/rms.html
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005 11:45 AM

Here are some great free webcasts covering security and many other topics including Threat Modelling

There's a wealth of webcasts available from TechEd Orlando - I know it's a while since the event but the shear breadth of content makes this a handy source of knowledge. Many of the topics remain highly relavent including the following: Michael Howard's
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Monday, November 28, 2005 11:12 AM

What's a Geek Dinner and when can I go to one?

*This post has been edited to correct the "Click here" link - thanks to Marc Liron for letting me know it was broken * Many of you have heard me talking about the fun to be had at Geek Dinners. For those of you who are in the London area there's an interesting
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Monday, November 28, 2005 11:03 AM

Fill a few more braincells with security knowledge at these events

Tuesday 29th Nov- Public Key Infrastructure – tell me in plain English AND THEN deep technical how PKI works - deep technical session taking place in Reading (England) - it's free to join us - just follow the link to register Wednesday 30th Nov - British
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Sunday, November 27, 2005 4:57 PM

Tips for using syskey to store the start up key on a USB token

Following my last post there were some comments asking questions - I'd like to make sure that anyone who might have read that post sees this & I know that not everyone reads the comments. Syskey CAN be used to store the computer startup key on a USB
Posted by Steve Lamb | 5 Comments
Friday, November 25, 2005 5:55 PM

How to use Syskey to make it more difficult to break into your laptop(s) via offline password guessing

Windows XP (and Server 2003) rely upon a series of "Master Keys" to protect both user specific secrets (including EFS and S/MIME key) and computer secrets (such as IPsec keys and SSL keys). The Master Keys are themselves encrypted with a "computer startup
Posted by Steve Lamb | 10 Comments
Thursday, November 24, 2005 8:44 PM

A really handy trick that let's you display multiple timezones in Outlook 2003's Calendar

John Howard posted a description of how to display multiple timezones in Outlook 2003 - it's so handy if you work with people on the other side of the globe. Click here to see how to set it up - it's very easy and IMHO really useful. Thanks John. Here's
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Wednesday, November 23, 2005 8:55 AM

What is a Virus, Worm or Bot(net) - here's an excellent security awareness video

There's an excellent security awareness video that was produced on behalf of the Dutch Government for their highly successful National Security Awareness day - it's good IMHO as the content is highly visual, colourful and thought provoking. If you want
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Tuesday, November 22, 2005 4:22 PM

How do you know when you've been on the road for too long?

I've been on the road for the last three and a half weeks. I'm beginning to notice some symptoms of "too long on the road" such as: * When going to breakfast in the hotel I often quote a room number on a floor that they don't have * I'm getting used to
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Friday, November 18, 2005 1:51 PM

Life is NOT Binary!

As technologists we tend to forget that there are problems that can't be solved purely with technology. This week I've spent every day with 4000 other highly technical people at IT Forum. It's been very interesting and the range of technical questions
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Thursday, November 17, 2005 2:50 PM

The "We Share Your Pain" Video can be viewed here - as shown @ IT Forum 2005

Jesper showed the following video @ IT Forum - many people I've spoken to asked where they could find it - Click on the image below to view the video
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Sunday, November 06, 2005 11:21 AM

Child Internet Safety resources available here

We visited an London Secondary School and spoke to 150 Children aged 11 - 12 years of ago about how to stay safe on the Internet. I was staggered how many Children HAD sent photographs of themselves to people they only knew online. On a positive note
Posted by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
Thursday, November 03, 2005 9:24 AM

How to secure your web server and transactions via PKI and ISA - check out my detailed article in TechNet Magazine

I've recently written an article for November/December's TechNet Magazine which looks in detail at how to secure both your web server and transactions between it and your customer's browser(s). It's pretty technical and is approximately two and a half
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Wednesday, November 02, 2005 4:23 PM

News from the consumer awareness campaign - GetSafeOnline

We've been evangelising to the good people of Birmingham today - local radio, the main library, the BullRing shopping centre, the University and the Town Hall. We met the Major and showed in the demonstrations and material we're using around the City.
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Tuesday, November 01, 2005 2:45 PM

Teaching Security to Developers

Thanks to everyone @ VBUG Birmingham last night for making me so welcome. I was greated with lots of Halloooween pumpkins - one of which was carved with a semi-colon in it rather than a face - a C# joke apparently! I delved into how Malware gets onto
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Tuesday, November 01, 2005 2:14 PM

Join us on 29th Nov to find out in Plain English AND deep technical HOW PKI works

Many of you have asked me questions about Public Key Infrastructure with regard to it's use for securing web transactions (SSL), wireless (PEAP & EAL-TLS), email (S/MIME) and Rights Management. Prior to joining Microsoft I was a security consultant
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