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Critical vuln in MIT Kerberos implementation

Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 9:38 PM by tomek
This isn't something which is in line with my day to day work, however this is something which may affect many organizations so I've decided to add my blog to list of sties which will duplicate this information. Secunia has reported critical vulnerability Read More...
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Fix for DNS RPC management interface security problem

Posted Tuesday, May 08, 2007 11:03 PM by tomek
Some time ago I wrote about a serious problem which is affecting DNS service, to be more specific management interface available through RPC. As DNS is one of heavily used service in Active Directory networks this is real problem. With this month's security Read More...
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DNS server security problem

Posted Monday, April 16, 2007 11:36 PM by tomek
Most of you have probably read new (published few days ago) security advisory with number 935964 published by Microsoft. For those who haven't read it I think it is worth to take a look as this is about security problem in DNS service, which is quite Read More...
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BitLocker(ed)

Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2007 10:17 PM by tomek
Are You using some methods of securing data on Yours laptop hard drive? EFS anyone? I'm curious how many of readers are using TrueCrypt? Until today I've used TrueCrypt as a solution for secure file storing on my laptop machine. TrueCrypt is really cool Read More...
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ILM, the story continues

Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:39 PM by tomek
Just quick info - Microsoft have announced Identity Lifecycle Manager products line. Basically now we have a road map for next generation of IdM software. I'm now on conference in Seattle were we are talking a lot about it and I will post some more information Read More...
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Schema extensions for Vista new features

Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 10:58 PM by tomek
Vista introduces several new functionality and few of then (to be specific two) requires our AD environment to get prepared through schema extension. These schema extension needed to run new Vista's features will be part of LH schema, but LH is still Read More...
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Office 2007 ADM templates

Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 3:56 PM by tomek
Microsoft has published on Downloads Office 2007 ADM templates for downloads. As Office 2007 will be launched soon and may start to show up in our networks maybe it is worth to take a look at ADM possibilities before this will happen. Read More...
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Identity Metasystem whitepaper

Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 11:42 PM by tomek
I'm just catching up with my RSS feeds after few days being off-line (failed power supply may be very troublesome) and I found interesting link at Kim's Cameron blog . Kim is presenting Microsoft Whitepaper titled The Identity Metasystem: Towards a Privacy-Compliant Read More...
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Identity theft

Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:43 PM by tomek
For those who were expecting something more serious I own an apologies ... but this is funny and it is really what identity theft is all about. Great comic strip from Off the mark . Read More...
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Dual booting Vista and Linux on BitLocker and TPM protected drive

Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:29 AM by tomek
If You are interested in an answer to question "How to dual boot Linux and Vista on BitLocker protected drive?" You will find it on Cyril Voisin blog. Cyril is Security Advisor working in Microsoft France, and in his latest post he described how to configure Read More...
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Vista will open more access for security providers ...

Posted Saturday, October 14, 2006 9:25 PM by tomek
I just found at joe's site link to Washington Post's article which is informing about decission which was made at Microsoft to open access to system "guts" for security software providers. If it is true, and I don't have any reasons Read More...
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Windows Defender and Your Run key - what do You need to know?

Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 11:56 PM by tomek
Recently one of my friends who is running small (but very good - <ad word>If You need serious security guys, just call them</ad word>) security company sent me a link to some document. This document described simple experiment with security Read More...
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MIIS newbie tales - Export password attribute with Extensible MA

Posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 11:43 PM by tomek
Today I had a little chat on e-mail with Alex Tcherniakhovski which was about following topic: how to create export only attribute with Extensible MA to set initial password for newly provisioned account? (OK, this wasn't exactly such topic but this is Read More...
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VML patch (MS06-055) released out of band

Posted Tuesday, September 26, 2006 10:06 PM by tomek
As we can read on MSRC blog, Microsoft has published out of band patch for VML vulnerability existing in IE. This flaw was described in Microsoft Security Advisory (925568) published lately. Bug patched by this update allows remote code execution so it Read More...
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Disable simple bind without SSL on ADAM

Posted Sunday, September 24, 2006 9:57 PM by tomek
Today on ActiveDir.org ~Eric pointed out interesting feature in ADAM which allows ADAM administrator to configure ADAM instance to reject simple bind attempts on ports without SSL. To do this one have to edit properties of CN=Directory Service,CN=Windows Read More...
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