Security & Cryptography
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MIT Professor Develops NSA-like Email Data Visualization Software
See for yourself: https://immersion.media.mit.edu/ Continue reading
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Defend and Fix your site attacked by “lizamoon” and other types of SQL Injection
Before I discuss some of the more technical details regarding defense against “lizamoon” and similar attacks, an important note I would like to make to any business executives who may stumble across the article or hear it secondhand: PCI if… Continue reading
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Impersonation with Network Credentials in C# .Net
(Mostly) unmodified code, courtesy of Phil Harding (see references below for original post). References http://platinumdogs.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/net-c-impersonation-with-network-credentials/ Continue reading
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aspnet_setreg in Server 2008
The aspnet_setreg utility is very useful for storing encrypted domain credentials, connection strings and other values referenced in a web.config which should not be visible in plaintext. One such technique is when using the .Net “impersonation” mechanism. Typically, this would… Continue reading
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ZyXel Port Forwarding Issues
After what seemed like endless search over short period of time, and much wasted time on phone calls to support reps who were not familiar with telnet.. I finally stumbled across this article below from howtoforge Big thanks goes out… Continue reading
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Reset Password from Command Prompt in Server 2008
For a developer or IT admin working in Windows Server 2008 environment, you may have noticed ctrl+alt+del does not work over remote connection and you can no longer change your password from control panel. The best solution to this in… Continue reading
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File Shredder Shortcut using SDelete in Windows XP, Vista, 7
Computer enthusiasts have been using file shredders to delete files for many years. Sysinternals makes a very cool utility called “SDelete” that “shreds” a file See below for batch file code snippet to use with SDelete. Add to your “User/Administrator/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/SendTo”… Continue reading
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Strong Password Generator
Pretty good little web based site to generate strong passwords on the fly. Once I have some time to whip up a little tool to do the same I’ll be sure to post code here. (Requires javascript:) StrongPasswordGenerator References StrongPasswordGenerator,… Continue reading
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Encryption 101 and Security for the Paranoid
Modern day television, cinemas and news have created a big hype around security, especially computer security, usually without any good explanation. I’m not going to tell you that hype is false, there is definitely a growing need to be careful… Continue reading
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Quick .Net Encryption Reference
The code below represents a very basic .NET encryption class which has been tested and should work in your application – simply plug and play. 🙂 Contains two static methods that can be called without needing to instantiate the class.… Continue reading
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