With the move of my blog to a new server, so comes a few new tweaks. Fortunately, I’m on an Windows 2008 Hosting account and I have had delegation enabled so I can remotely manage all the features in my IIS7 website with the IIS7 manager (but more on that in a later post). Earlier […]
Quickly Configure or Disable ETags in IIS7 or IIS6 Read More »
The number of SQL Injection attacks across the Internet continue to rise. I’m seeing regular posting on the SANS RSS feed related to SQL Injection and XSS these days and clients are finding that applications they thought were not vulnerable turn out to be vulnerable because of patches and custom mods they’ve had made to
SQL Injection Help .. Microsoft to the rescue with URLScan 3.0. Read More »
My previous blog post attempted to explain SQL injection and why it’s a problem. It’s started to get media coverage now and the media is looking for a target (scapegoat). So as is often the case, someone gets wrongly blamed and right now it’s of course Microsoft. It’s NOT Microsoft’s fault. Here’s what’s happening, recently
SQL Injection attacks continue, Is it Microsoft’s Fault? Read More »
It’s a shame but not many website owners or for that matter, web developers are familiar with what SQL Injection is and just why it’s something they need to worry about. I’m noticing through various forums, friends, etc an increased number of sites being exploited for Cross Site Scripting through SQL Injection. Most blog readers
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If you want Windows Update to check for updates without firing up a browser you can do this via CLI: wuauclt.exe /detectnow If there are updates available after a couple minutes you’ll see the little update notification in the system tray:
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A question that’s been coming up rather often lately is: “How do I configure the Windows Firewall on my Dedicated Server / VPS Server?” Not many people realize that in SP1 Windows 2003 got a software firewall feature added and even fewer are familiar with how to configure it correctly. Because of this I wanted
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Have you ever sat in a presentation and saw a command execute that you never knew about and was just blown away? Yesterday was one of those days. I was watching a demo of a new SAN solution and the presenter created a new volume on an NTFS drive but didn’t use the full drive
Extending NTFS Volumes Quickly. Read More »
How often have you had someone come up to you and say “Hey, you know computers. I think my PC is infected what do I do?” Generally, their AV is out of date or non-existent. Today it was pointed out to me that Dr. Web has a free cleaner called “Dr. Web CureIt!“. The application
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Like any die-hard computer geek/junkie, when Vista was first released I moved to a new desktop running Vista. The downside to going to a new desktop is that same old problem “what do I do about my old desktop? I don’t want to (or I can’t) re-install all my programs, documents, etc?”. So for the
Migrating your old workstation to your new workstation with virtualization. Read More »
A new version of the Linux Additions for Virtual Server is now available from the Microsoft Download Center via the following webpage: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/virtualserver/downloads/linuxguestsupport.mspx These new Additions add support for some updated distributions of Linux and are designed to work with Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 which is available at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver Currently Qualified Linux Guest Operating
Linux Additions for Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 updated Read More »