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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-025

posted Friday, July 30, 2004 1:13 PM by andy
Apply this immediately! It fixes these vulnerabilities in IE which have an aggregated severity of 'critical': Navigation Method Cross-Domain Vulnerability - CAN-2004-0549 Malformed BMP File Buffer Overrun Vulnerability - CAN-2004-0566 Malformed Read More
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How to get those "missing" fonts to work in xpdf

posted Tuesday, July 27, 2004 11:26 AM by andy
It's take a little bit of know how to be able to view pdf's correclty on any *nix platform. This post explains how I configure xpdf on FreeBSD 4.10...it should work for other versions but I'm not making any promises. Also, while the specifics may not Read More
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IPF Article

posted Monday, July 26, 2004 11:40 AM by andy
Yet another firewalling article :) When writing this I actually found that IPF seems to have a lot more features than IPFW does. IPF Basics Read More
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The bottom line part deux.

posted Saturday, July 24, 2004 9:57 AM by andy
This is a follow up to the post I recently made in response to Scott Granneman's article on SecurityFocus. You can read my original post and his responsehere. I feel the need to clarify what I meant in the post. I could make this much longer but Read More
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Free Harddisk Image Cloning software (IE: this does something similar to Ghost)

posted Friday, July 23, 2004 3:35 PM by andy
I haven't gotten a chance to use g4u yet but it seems very promising.  I know that as a consultant there have been many times where I would have liked to have a tool like this handy to backup a machine before I start playing with it. Read More
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Microsoft apparently has a sense of humor

posted Friday, July 23, 2004 12:51 PM by andy
I got a chuckle out of this...hopefully it will make someone elses Friday humorous as well :) This is from the link to Lookout in MS's download center which I followed from Ryan's post: Overview Lookout is lightning-fast search for your email, Read More
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Lonely, sober hackers rejoice!

posted Thursday, July 22, 2004 7:18 PM by andy
If you're lonely and need a drink why not have some fun with it?  Play the snort drinking game  and if you really need to get trashed send a stupid question to the snort mailing list using Outlook first: And the Big Penalty Drink: If you Read More
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ipfw-graph

posted Thursday, July 22, 2004 9:59 AM by andy
This port was just too cool to not post about. Edwin Groothuis has created ipfw-graph which will graph the usage of the rules in your IPFW ruleset on FreeBSD: Displays a graphical overview of bytes going through your IPFW rules and a piled overview Read More
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IPFW Basics Article

posted Friday, July 16, 2004 12:17 PM by andy
Wahoo! Another article: IPFW Basics   ...and I even used the cool url naming feature thingy Ryan told me about. Read More
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Backup Exec 8.6 and Exchange/Windows 2000 woes

posted Thursday, July 15, 2004 4:12 PM by andy
I went to go restore a file for a client today and noticed that my backups had been failing with this error for a few days now: Unable to attach to \\<Server Name>\Microsoft Information Store\First Storage Group.The item was not found. ^ ^ ^ ^ Read More
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IE exploits

posted Tuesday, July 13, 2004 9:20 AM by andy
Lately these guys have been posting IE exploits like crazy on the various lists I'm subscribed to... they definitely deserve some linkage.  *tips hat to the greyhats* http://www.greyhats.cjb.net Read More
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Everything you wanted to know about Windows Server 2003 Security

posted Friday, July 09, 2004 11:45 PM by andy
This is more of a post for me to reference in one of those “Uh oh, I forgot how to xxxxx! Where can I look it up?” Security Services in Windows Server 2003 Read More
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The bottom line.

posted Friday, July 09, 2004 2:29 PM by andy
In his most recent article on SecurityFocus Scott Granneman claims, "Microsoft should make SP2 available to all users and backport the changes to older operating systems, or they risk putting profits ahead of security yet again." My question is this: Read More
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RFC's for those interested in TCP/IP

posted Friday, July 09, 2004 1:33 PM by andy
I've been doing a lot of RFC reading today and have come to the conclusion that the four listed below are the best to learn all about TCP/IP. I didn't include any routing because that's a whole world of it's own. RFC 1180: TCP/IP Tutorial Read More
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Awesome CSMA/CD Analogy

posted Friday, July 09, 2004 10:17 AM by andy
CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense and Multiple Access with Collision Detection) is the protocol(s) that run your network...well, unless your still on broken ring...err....token ring. I've been doing reading through some of the RFC's again and realized that Theodore Read More
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XPCREATE

posted Thursday, July 08, 2004 4:11 PM by andy
One of the easiest things anyone who installs Windows can do for themselves is create an install disk with the Service Packs already slipstreamed into them. However, its kind of a tedious process. Thank God someome had the time to automate...I haven't Read More
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