desiGeek.com

Amit Bahree (and family)'s humble playground

Home
Blogs

All Tags » .security » .microsoft (RSS)

Browse by Tags

Interesting IE 7 Security feature

When looking at the Dell battery replacement site, using IE 7 (beta 3), the certificate was expired and even though I said "please ignore that and continue", I saw this interesting feature as you can see in the screen shot. The address box has a red background - warning me and also a new Certificate...

Posted to ÎÜñ|‹ø\/\/ñ [ÐëÞrëçã†ëð]'s Blog (Weblog) by Amit Bahree on 08-16-2006
Vista's Address Space Layout Randomizer

Shipping with Vista Beta 2, there is a new security feature called Address Space Layout Randomization (a.k.a ASLR); other than being a mouthful, this helps defend against buffer overrun exploits. It does this by moving the entry points into the system dll's around randomly in memory. Its all about odd...

Posted to ÎÜñ|‹ø\/\/ñ [ÐëÞrëçã†ëð]'s Blog (Weblog) by Amit Bahree on 06-14-2006
Bypass for Windows piracy check

A tool provided by Microsoft could let people get around a check meant to prevent those with pirated copies of Windows from downloading additional software from the company, according to a security researcher. The threat is mitigated because the keys generated by the GenuineCheck tool expire "rapidly...

Posted to ÎÜñ|‹ø\/\/ñ [ÐëÞrëçã†ëð]'s Blog (Weblog) by Amit Bahree on 05-24-2005
Thinking of upgrading to x64 XP? You might want to rethink that

Yes, I know, I have been harping about XP 64 bit and how you can upgrade to XP 64 bit for free , but you might want to rethink for in the short term (for about 6-12 months). Why you ask? Well in addition to the drivers (remember your 32 bit drivers will *not* work), the two biggest Antivirus solutions...

Posted to ÎÜñ|‹ø\/\/ñ [ÐëÞrëçã†ëð]'s Blog (Weblog) by Amit Bahree on 05-04-2005
Running XP without SP2? Well your time is running out...

I don't agree with Microsoft's approach here . Essentially if you are running XP and don't have SP2 installed, then that will be forced down your throat. Now, I had SP2 running the day it went Beta and have not had any problems, but I am not sure if this really is to get the security patches out or forcing...

Posted to ÎÜñ|‹ø\/\/ñ [ÐëÞrëçã†ëð]'s Blog (Weblog) by Amit Bahree on 03-31-2005
Why you shouldn't be using passwords of any kind on your Windows networks

Robert Hensing writes a very interesting and controversial article where he recommends not to use any kind of passwords on a Windows network? Why you ask? Well because passwords are very easily cracked and worms such as Agobot / Phatbot / Polybot / SDBot / RBot / etc. ship with boat-loads of dictionaries...

Posted to ÎÜñ|‹ø\/\/ñ [ÐëÞrëçã†ëð]'s Blog (Weblog) by Amit Bahree on 12-07-2004
Another week, a bunch of MS Security holes plugged!

Microsoft today just released another update on a security hole. This honestly is good, that the holes are being identified and being plugged. Yes, I am sure there are the “bashers” who would scoff at it, but the reality is, in the millions of lines of code across various products, such thing...

Posted to ÎÜñ|‹ø\/\/ñ [ÐëÞrëçã†ëð]'s Blog (Weblog) by Amit Bahree on 10-12-2004
Another day, another security update (this one is Critical though)

Microsoft released today another critical security update - Buffer Overrun in JPEG Processing (GDI+) Could Allow Code Execution (833987) . A buffer overrun vulnerability exists in the processing of JPEG image formats that could allow remote code execution on an affected system. Any program that processes...

Posted to ÎÜñ|‹ø\/\/ñ [ÐëÞrëçã†ëð]'s Blog (Weblog) by Amit Bahree on 09-14-2004

Page 1 of 1 (8 items)

Powered by Community Server (Non-Commercial Edition), by Telligent Systems