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October 2006 - Posts

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 12:16 AM

Here's a nice explaination of why patchguard prevents Windows Vista from being hooked

Jesper Johansson's post Microsoft blog includes an nice concise explaination of WHAT PatchGuard does AND why it's important for Windows Vista (and Server 2003 SP1 on 64 bit) to prevent the kernel from being hooked. Reading Jesper's post titled "Security
Posted by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
Thursday, October 26, 2006 12:06 AM

Windows Vista Gadgets are cool - I've just found a great one for Windsurfers

Windows Vista's Gadgets provide a cool way to customise your desktop with handy tools and information feeds. I'm an enthusiastic Windsurfer so you can imagine my delight when I stumbled across WindGuru's windspeed gadget. It's cool because the gadget
Posted by Steve Lamb | 2 Comments
Wednesday, October 25, 2006 6:14 PM

Why on earth do some people think that biometrics are a form of authentication?

Steve Riley's recent post links to a Myth Busters demonstration of three different techniques to beat an "Unbreakable" biometric door lock . I presume that the best practise advice from the lock's manufacturer recommended including a form of authentication
Posted by Steve Lamb | 2 Comments
Tuesday, October 24, 2006 11:52 AM

How to burn an ISO image onto a CD - how to upgrade your computer's BIOS

There are a wealth of third party CD Burning utilities out there on the market though not everyone has one on their machine. Windows XP can natively burn files to CD without any additional software HOWEVER it can't create a bootable CD. I'm upgrading
Posted by Steve Lamb | 4 Comments
Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:00 AM

Talks about Windows Vista Security and how to defeat Malware in Edinburgh in November

The Business Technology Alliance User Group are a very active community based in Scotland. On the 29th November 2006 there will be an evening of technical discussion no doubt including intense technical debate at Microsoft's Offices in Edinburgh. The
Posted by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
Monday, October 23, 2006 9:42 PM

Alun Rogers of the IT Pro Security User Group will be speaking @ NxtGenUG's Halloween Spooktacular 2 next week

Join Alun and the folk from the NxtGenUG on Monday 30th October in Birmingham (England!) for a talk about how to deal with Viruses and Malware. Click here to read the details for yourself . Last year's gathering was really good fun and included a technical
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Friday, October 20, 2006 12:04 PM

Blimey - the team at Microsoft Research (MSR) in Cambridge are smart!

I'm working at Microsoft Research (MSR) in Cambridge today and am staggered by the incredibly complicated formulae and associated calulations on the wall behind me. I studied Mathematics as part of my degree many years ago but I can't make any sense of
Posted by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
Thursday, October 19, 2006 2:07 PM

All you ever wanted to know about Windows Vista's Bitlocker drive encryption and secure start up technologies

Bitlocker is the feature of Windows Vista that I'm asked about more than any other. There follows a list of links to an excellent series of resources covering BitLocker in technical detail. Before I get to the guides I'd also like to refer you to the
Posted by Steve Lamb | 5 Comments
Thursday, October 12, 2006 9:53 AM

If you're in Newcastle (England) today and would like to talk about security then come and meet the GetSafeOnline team

GetSafeOnline is a partnership between Government, Law Enforcement and Commerce - in excess of fifty people have volunteered our time to get out on the road for a week. Our focus is to raise the security awareness of the UK consumers so if you have a
Posted by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
Wednesday, October 11, 2006 11:42 PM

embrace 'the virtual side'! it's an interesting source of information about teched emea

In the run up to TechEd EMEA we're posting video interviews and other interesting information taking you behind the scenes. The site will also be a good resource for those of you who can't join us at the event itself as we'll be filming interviews with
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006 9:50 AM

Early notice about an upcomming training course titled asp.net exploits and countermeasures

NxtGenUG and Dinis Cruz from IOActive have teamed up to run two 2 day "Advanced ASP.NET Exploits and Countermeasures" training courses. One will be held in London and one in Birmingham. The courses will be in-depth training on learning how sophisticated
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006 9:24 AM

Windows Live Writer is small, simple and powerful - if only I'd tried it sooner!

Eileen blogged about Live Writer back in August and together with James has been gently suggesting that I should give it a whirl (try it). It's a really nice way to write blog posts that lends itself to both online AND offline editing. Several times over
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Monday, October 09, 2006 8:00 PM

Who Will yahoo buy now that Google have announced their purchase of youtube?

Eileen's watching the news feeds regarding the announcement that Goole intend to buy YouTube. As she asks I wonder whether Yahoo will follow suit and buy a high profile video media site to increase the attention their advertising stream receives. The
Posted by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
Monday, October 09, 2006 7:53 PM

How to protect yourself from Worms, Viruses and Hackers on the internet - Getsafeonline

As James mentions we're back on the road eleven months after last year's GetSafeOnline launch. This week marks the start of the second year in a three year campaign where we share simple steps to help UK consumers protect themselves and safely enjoy the
Posted by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
Friday, October 06, 2006 3:12 PM

Another case of "Security Theatre" - this time - how to secure contactors PCs

During a security community gathering earlier this week I was staggered to hear a "security expert" cite a supposed best practise of giving contractors machines (to ensure a secure environment) AND the administrator password! Perhaps this is just a rant
Posted by Steve Lamb | 1 Comments
Wednesday, October 04, 2006 3:18 PM

How to view 2007 Office System ("Office 12") documents in Office System 2003

I'm running two machines at the moment - one's running a recent build of Windows Vista RC1 and the other's running Windows XP. As you may know, the file format used by the upcomming version of Microsoft Office is different from that used in previous versions.
Posted by Steve Lamb | 0 Comments
Monday, October 02, 2006 3:57 PM

Please can the miscreant that keeps posting "Well done" and "Nice Design" comments on my blog STOP wasting everyone's time!

The only reason I moderate the comments to this blog is to stop this rubbish getting through thereby increasing the number of hits to bogus websites. I'm sure many of you recieve comment spam on your blogs and are equally frustrated. I know that the chances
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