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Saturday, March 29, 2008 9:21 AM

Which are the most popular blogs on Microsoft's TechNet and MSDN?

Thanks to Sean for publishing a list of the top twenty five most popular TechNet and MSDN blogs . Thank you for taking the time to read my blog as I'm delighted it's made the top twenty five. There are more than 1600 blogs on TechNet & MSDN. I started
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006 1:46 PM

Bill Hilf has published an annotated version of his Keynote from LINUX World - it's on Port25

Bill was the first Microsoft employee to deliver the LINUX World Keynote. As you may know Bill's closely with the LINUX community over the years and hence he has an excellent perspective on the benefits of different approaches to software development.
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Monday, June 12, 2006 3:35 PM

No I don't want any additional auto insurance, free ring tones or sexual embelishment

Like Steve Riley I'm fed up with receiving a large number of spam comments on my blog. I've just returned from a lovely holiday in the Yorkshire Dales to a large number of nonesense spam comments on this blog. Also like Steve I believe in free speech
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Thursday, May 11, 2006 10:09 PM

We're getting really close to Beta 2 of Windows Vista - I've moved across to one of the latest builds

I'm on 5353 which is really stable - so much so I've moved to it for my production system. Having said that the official advice remains "this is a test build and therefore shouldn't be relied upon in production". I like living on "the bleading edge of
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Tuesday, May 09, 2006 11:43 AM

The Microsoft Network Access Protection (NAP) Team have a blog at last

Thanks to Jeffrey Centex for posting about the NAP team's blog . There are some interesting posts discussing Network Access Protection (NAP) including comment from the RSA Security show.
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Thursday, April 27, 2006 6:08 PM

Looking for increased security via Trusted Platform Module (TPM) support such as Windows Vista's Bitlocker

Andy made an interesting comment regarding his interest in Trusted Platform Module (TPM) hardware based security to compliment the software controls in his environment. I'm not familiar with the 3rd party he refers to (Wave) though can highly recommend
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Monday, April 10, 2006 5:24 PM

How to recover from Malware infestation? How to avoid getting malware in the first place

I encourage customers to architect machines such that data is stored in a separate partition of the hard disk – this makes it far less painful should the worst case scenario of machine rebuild be required. It’s certainly true that insidious malicious
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Friday, April 07, 2006 2:40 PM

I'm NOT a Girl!

...but I have been to a Girl Geek Dinner and plan to go to more. As the name suggests they focus on the female perspective of technology. Of course I have no idea how many of you are Girl Geeks - if you are one then you can add your name to the WIKI and
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006 3:34 PM

Where can I find out how to write secure code?

The Microsoft Application Security Website is a UK based resource that aims to help you write more secure code. The site includes links to the Developer Highway Code which is named after something that's only likely to make sense to those of you who have
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Thursday, March 30, 2006 5:09 PM

Send a Muglet Birthday card!

Browse here to find out how to create a muglet together with a personalised song - you can send it to whomever you choose! Nothing to do with Security but I thought you'd enjoy it. I'm not going to post any more about Muglets now :-)
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Thursday, March 30, 2006 11:45 AM

Should you apply third party security fixes to Internet Explorer

In a word NO! There's a thorough explaination of the logic behind this answer on the Microsoft Security Response Centre (MSRC) blog here . The MSRC own the responsibility of balancing the compromise between the risk of our customers being exploited through
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Monday, March 27, 2006 5:33 PM

Secure I.T. or lose IT - an interesting securty blog

Browse here to read a new interesting security blog written by Paul Vincent - he's titled it "Secure I.T or lose IT" which I particularly like. Paul blogs about "Microsoft security and how we can stop the bad guys from stealing our stuff" - it's well
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006 4:21 PM

Evidence of a website that appears to be hosting a malicious keylogger trojan horse

Trojan horses (software that includes "features" that may work against the user's intentions) are hardly new, nor are keyloggers. I find it interesting that the "My Anti Spyware" blog includes a post detailing reports of an apparently malicious website
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006 4:17 PM

If you're looking for ammunition to justify why running as non-admin is important then look no further...

Thanks to the "MyAntiSpyware" blog for an interesting article talking about the importance of running Windows without administrative rights for day to day activities. Browse here to read the details for yourself. The author in turn refers to a recent
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Monday, March 13, 2006 8:32 PM

What threat do Keystroke Loggers pose to your environment?

Keystroke loggers take the form of hardware or software that record the keyboard activity of the target system. There's an interesting article discussing both hardware and software keystroke loggers on the InternetSecurityOnline blog. Reading the article
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