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December 2007 - Security Briefs
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The more I work with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) , the more I'm impressed with its consistency. I'm finding it so intuitive to navigate, and just plain fun to use. The other day I was trying to build something that behaved similarly to an ASP...
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Vittorio has just concluded a series of posts where he's sharing a sneak preview of the Identity Framework (Fx for this post). Based on what he's shown and his descriptions, I've put together a little list of some features we can probably expect from...
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This morning I was installing the recently released .NET 3.5 redistributable on a machine and had to laugh when it showed me this. Note the title bar - the application is literally asking me to close it so it can continue. FWIW, pressing ignore seemed...
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It's ironic that only yesterday I posted about the dangers of using passwords for encryption. Well this morning another "feature" of passwords hit me square in the forehead. I tried to activate Windows Live OneCare (I've decided to give their family safety...
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I remember making a joke not long ago about my kid sister attacking a password database using her Nintendo DS. Looks like the PS3 has an architecture that makes it especially well suited for this type of attack . Security researcher Nick Breese used a...
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I recently heard a colleague lamenting that he was having difficulty using PrincipalPermissionAttribute at the class level in a certain scenario under WCF. I recommended caution in my guidebook , because of the nasty type load exception that you can run...
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As part of a disaster recovery script, early on I wanted to ensure that all of the vdirs on a server were using ASP.NET 2.0. That meant that I wanted to run aspnet_regiis.exe -r but I didn't want to make any assumptions about what drive or directory Windows...
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When you're thinking about the security of a web server, it's a good idea to think about the worst case scenario. What if the machine (or the data/programs on the machine) is destroyed somehow and you need to get back up and running as soon as possible...
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