TONYSO : Security

Free-as-in-beer Security Baselines for Win7, BL and IE8

tonyso — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:36:36 GMT

The Security Compliance Management Toolkit Series provides organizations with an end-to-end solution to help them plan, deploy, and monitor security baselines of Windows operating systems and 2007 Microsoft Office applications. Recent updates include...(read more)

This Is Your Brain on Drugs

tonyso — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:37:06 GMT

Scientists in Switzerland map the human brain on hallucinogens. Measured this way, all tripper’s brains look the same, yet internally, each drug-takers experience is different and personal… Warning : clicking the link subjects you to a short commercial...(read more)

“Xmas Came Early!”: Free Risk Tracker 1.0 Tool from Microsoft

tonyso — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:49:28 GMT

The customer-focused information security team have released the free-as-in-beer Risk Tracker 1.0 on Codeplex. This sample app (did I mention it was free?) helps the Microsoft Information Security Team track information security risk across the company....(read more)

Hyper-V How To: Understand Security Auditing

tonyso — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:07:00 GMT

Read the Windows Server 2008 R2 security auditing resources below – and you’ll be up to speed: Advanced Security Audit Policy Step-by-Step Guide This step-by-step guide for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 demonstrates the process of setting up an...(read more)

Answeredness as a Competitive Advantage

tonyso — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:33:59 GMT

Microsoft’s community forums have a nifty feature that is a little hard to find because you need to begin to ask a question before you see it. Let’s say you go to the Hyper-V Forum, and you have a question about Processor affinity. You can search “How...(read more)

Free-as-in-beer Security Protection from Microsoft

tonyso — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:55:32 GMT

I’ve been dogfooding Microsoft Security Essentials for quite awhile now and recommend it to everyone one I know. Download it free today here . Did I mention that it is free-as-in-beer? Event though I use remote assistance and PSR to help friends and family...(read more)

Hyper-V How To: Turn Off IPV6

tonyso — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:52:49 GMT

By default, IPv6 is enabled in Windows Server 2008. If you want to disable IPv6 for any reason – perhaps you have some VMs you want to exclude for testing, you have to use Registry Editor to completely disable IPv6. For those who prefer not to muck about...(read more)

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About AzMan * but were afraid to ask

tonyso — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:06:00 GMT

John Howard has a 3-post series on his blog that explains the Hyper-V authorization model, and shows you how to achieve delegated VM administration with AzMan, the engine and toolset for making role based access checks and defining authorization policy...(read more)

Hyper-V Common Criteria Certification

tonyso — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:00:12 GMT

Q: Is Hyper-V Common Criteria Certified (Common Criteria level EAL4 augmented by ALC_FLR.3)? A: Heck ya: : http://www.bsi.de/zertifiz/zert/reporte.htm#Midsize_Systems :-) Congrats to the Hyper-V team....(read more)

Day 0 Has Arrived: Go Read SecBul 972890 Now if Your Users are XP/2003

tonyso — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:09:00 GMT

Yesterday was Day Zero for the Video Active X control vulnerability reported in Security Advisory 972890 . Luckily, this only affects XP and Windows Server 2003 users, so those who are on current OS versions are protected. Unfortunately, many, many of...(read more)

Don’t Get Nineballed

tonyso — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:56:27 GMT

According to the Washington Post yesterday there is a new kind of click fraud waiting to take out your unsuspecting users of internet search . Slashdot says: “The Trojan, dubbed FFsearcher by SecureWorks, was among the pieces of malware installed by sites...(read more)

Stupid User Bailout - Free-as-in-Beer Microsoft Security Essentials Beta

tonyso — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:10:53 GMT

You spend more time supporting users than you’d like – you’d like to be doing more proactive stuff, right? You spend the majority of that time bailing users out of security issues. Why should only big banks, insurance, and car companies get bailouts?...(read more)

IT Pro and the “remix”

tonyso — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:42:19 GMT

As an IT Pro, you may or may not be aware of the “ remix culture ”. Really, when you read TN/MSDN blogs, you are participating in it…even if you don’t think about it that way. I’m looking for some feedback from you about an idea I’ve been discussing with...(read more)

Hyper-V How To: Monitor Hyper-V R2 VMs in a Sidebar Gadget

tonyso — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:03:00 GMT

Over in the Windows Server R2 Virtualization Forum Dale Unroe shared a nifty tip: Once you install the RSAT tools for Win7 , you can use Tore’s Hyper-V Monitor Gadget for Windows Sidebar to monitor your R2 VMs - slickness....(read more)

Free-as-in-beer Technet Virtual Conference

tonyso — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:31:00 GMT

Andrew’s blog post gives the details : Windows 7 – Deployment and Management Windows Server 2008 R2 - 10 things to make life easier for IT Pros An overview of Office Communications Server R2 and voice capabilities The trials and tribulations of SharePoint...(read more)