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Port Requirements for the Microsoft Windows Server System
The Windows server system includes a comprehensive and integrated infrastructure that is designed to meet the requirements of developers and of information technology (IT) professionals. This system is designed to ...
Document added on April 3, 2011PWL Files: The Achilles' Heel of Windows 9X Client Networks
What purpose does the PWL file serve? What information does the PWL file hold and why? Microsoft does not offer much detailed technical information on the PWL file, because they ...
Written by: Scott Winters and added on May 16, 2011CyberInSecurity: The Cost of Monopoly
A warning that relying on a single software vendor for effectively all software in certain categories inevitably leads to security problems.
Written by: Geer, Bacce, Guttman, Metzger, Pfleeger, Quartermain, Schneier and added on May 29, 2011Enforcing the "Least Privilege" Principle through Active Directory, OUs, GPOs, and Group Policy Filtering
This document presents an approach to further enforce the “Least Privilege” principle by combining Active Directory, GPOs, and Group Policy filtering techniques. This principle states that users should be given ...
Written by: Ricardo Rodriguez and added on Jan. 5, 2011Windows 9X in a Bad Neighborhood
This paper discusses security of Windows 9X machines under the control of certain registry settings and the impact of malicious code [see Notes 1] on maintaining registry setting. Specifically, it ...
Document added on April 6, 2011Discretionary Access Control Knowledge, a Practical System
The popular operating systems today are Microsoft NT 4.0 and Windows 2000. These operating systems offer a great deal of control over resources to endusers in the form of discretionary ...
Document added on June 5, 2011Top 10 Mistakes on Windows Internal Networks
In this paper I aim to highlight ten common mistakes on Windows systems, which make the job of a disgruntled employee or a malicious attacker who manages to get past ...
Document added on March 5, 2011The Dark Side of NTFS (MicrosoftÂ’s Scarlet Letter)
Admins & users know very little about a feature of the NTFS file system called 'alternate data streams' (ADSs). This paper describes in detail how ADSs are created and manipulated, ...
Written by: H. Carvey and added on Feb. 28, 2011Securing the Internal Network
The goal of this document is to define new guidelines in order to improve the security in Microsoft Windows-based internal networks. In order to be useful in real situations, these ...
Document added on June 28, 2011