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Trustworthy Administrators

I just read an article by Steve Riley called Trustworthy Administrators . He hits the nail right on the head. Network administration is a position of trust. It's not really just preventing disgruntled admins from doing their dirty work. It's also...

Published 12-15-2008 4:30 AM by Microsoft Philippines Community

Filed under: Security, Steve Riley, Trustworthy

Windows Vista: Security and Innovation vs. Compatibility

I'm so much involved with the deployment of Windows Vista here in Singapore. An important prerequisite of deployment is application compatibility testing. I came across documents and books explaining why Windows Vista has compatibility challenges...

Published 12-11-2008 4:42 AM by Microsoft Philippines Community

Filed under: Windows Vista, Security, Windows Client Deployment, Application Compatibility

DDoS Extortionist Hits Filipino Blogger

Ryan Cleary alias “ViraL”, one of the three hackers who conspired to bring down 4chan with a DDoS attack, posted this threatening comment on my blog the other day. ViraL on August 21st, 2008 at 2:02 pm Are you serious right now? Remove all...

Published 08-22-2008 6:53 PM by Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog

Filed under: Security, Blogging, felony, 4chan, ViraL, crime, Ryan Cleary, DDoS

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) Security Assessment

I was informed by Baldwin Ng, Senior Product Manager of the Microsoft Solutions Accelerators Team of Microsoft of a recent addition to the MAP Toolkit: the Security Assessment for Client Machines feature. Therefore the MAP toolkit is not only useful if...

Published 08-17-2008 8:05 AM by Microsoft Philippines Community

Filed under: Windows Vista, Security, Windows Client Deployment, Deployment

SiteMeter crashes thousands of websites on IE7

Over the weekend, thousands of websites inexplicably crashed when browsed via Internet Explorer 7. The common thing about them is that they all use Sitemeter and a bug in the site tracking service caused all the havoc. Sitemeter has promptly fixed the...

Published 08-03-2008 8:10 AM by Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog

Filed under: Tech News, Security, sitemeter, analytics

Microsoft Asia Security Roadshow: some notes

Once again, I watched kick-a$$ Microsoft security guru Steve Riley in the Microsoft Asia Security Roadshow held in Microsoft Philippines on March 14, 2008. Some notes I would like to share: TCP/IP Stack developed in the 70's used in the 90's We...

Published 03-15-2008 5:38 AM by Microsoft Philippines Community

Filed under: Security, Steve Riley

The Accountant as a Contributor in Network Security?

Why not? I've always advocated the importance of proper implementation of the Software Asset Management (SAM) practice in organizations as part of its network security strategy. By ensuring that only legitimate software is used, then the organization...

Published 03-05-2008 8:16 AM by Microsoft Philippines Community

Filed under: Security, SAM

BDO Email Scam Alert

Banco de Oro sent out a security bulletin to all its customer about a recent internet scam being circulated in emails that is part of a bigger modus operandi. The scam being circulated through email attempts to lure recipients into giving details of their...

Published 02-14-2008 1:47 PM by Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog

Filed under: Security, e/m-Commerce

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