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Reason #341 for using stackoverflow.com
I’ve written about stackoverflow.com, a place to ask and answer programming questions. And here is an other reason to use it: they have great error pages 🙂 And today I’ve learned something new on SO from Oliver Giesen (also, his SO profile): you can’t delete executable files which are “in use” (programs are being run…
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You say features, I say (possible) vulnerabilities
I was listening to a recent MindOfRoot podcast (good podcast BTW if you are interested in IT type topics) which included an interview with a Microsoftie about WS-MAN (sorry for not recalling the exact name of the person). If you don’t know (I didn’t) WS-MAN stands for (drum roll please): web services management. That’s right…
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Can you test AV using VirusTotal?
Just a little post to bait Kurt 🙂 Many people are up in arms about the idea of submitting a sample to VirusTotal and interpreting the (usually rather poor) detection count. A few links to get you started: virustotal usage FAIL why perform virustotal based av tests? “Only X Out of 32 Antivirus Products Detect…
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Gimme Dope Obama
Via Assarbad’s blog: The original is from SWR3, host of other great shows like Wie war der Tag, Liebling?. Also, some new blogs I’ve subscribed to: Nothing for Ungood Threat Research Craigrow DebugInfo Black Magic Code Also, somebody seems to have had a lot of free time: (The idea is that you can put links…
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Mixed links
(Most of these links are from the GSD blog) The Dude – a network scanning and mapping software. Free and available for Linux! SmartSniff – not very interesting, but I found out that you can use raw sockets to sniff traffic (not just to craft arbitrary traffic). 4 Tools You Need To Predict The Death…
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Improvement to Software Restriction Policies in Windows 7
While listening to the episode of RunAs Radio about Windows 7 I’ve heard about AppLocker, a beefed up version of Software Restriction Policies. It is an interesting improvement, but I expect that it will still be enforced from User Mode, making it not as secure as it could be. Also, given the recent mishaps with…