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January 2008 - Security Briefs
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I managed to get this recipe manager installed last night. The instructions for Windows users are pretty old and out of date (the primary audience for this software is in the linux world). But I managed to get it installed and running nevertheless, and...
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So I'm a divorced father who cares for his three sons 50% of the time. It's a challenging but tremendously fun task. Since the separation, I've been spending much more time with my kids than I ever did before, and I'm loving it. But I'm still a geek at...
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This is one of my favorite places, and I've been away for quite awhile. During the week of February 12, I'll be teaching our Applied .NET 3.0 course , and covering some of the new stuff in 3.5 as well. This class is an introduction to the 3.x platform...
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In my quest to get unit testing and code coverage, I was disappointed to find that NCover requires administrative privileges to run. I posted on their forum about this , and was informed that the authors "haven't had a good enough reason" to fix the problem...
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I started working in education back in 1996, when I wrote a class on COM and started teaching it at the University of California/Irvine extension. After my first class, I was hooked. I loved meeting new people, finding out what they were working on, and...
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I spent most of the day yesterday getting CruiseControl.NET set up here at Pluralsight . We're always working on little projects (well, some larger than others) and making use of continuous integration seemed like a great idea. I was surprised how easy...
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Before posting my discussion of code signing cert costs , I took a quick look at my trusted root store and didn't find anything by Comodo. I guess I should have looked more closely. There it is! Apparently John's found an excellent deal . It turns out...
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UPDATE: It turns out that John *did* find a bargain. Please be sure to read this followup post . In my recent post about Windows Live OneCare Firewall and Security, I mentioned that code signing certificates aren't cheap. If you look at the major vendors...
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My continuing saga using Windows Live OneCare ... Like most security products, this one puts an icon in the taskbar. This one glows green if everything is OK, yellow if there's somthing minor wrong, or red if there's something really wrong. For example...
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I work at home, and like most techies I know, I have a router that sits behind my cable modem and provides Internet access for all the computers in my house, both wired and wireless. This router provides a firewall and NAT like most devices of its ilk...
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FlexWiki 2.0 shipped yesterday! Craig has been instrumental in making FlexWiki what it is today. He's donated a lot of time and effort to the project (I know this, because many of the features he added were ones that I requested). Now that he's leaving...
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I've recently installed Windows Live OneCare and generally have been very happy with it. I'm using the Family Safety option to help my kids access the Internet safely. But one thing that's been bugging me is the outbound firewall. If your software is...
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Over the last few years the software industry has been figuring out better ways of solving security problems. One of the remaining conundrums has been figuring out where to put authorization logic. When you start thinking about this, you often end up...
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In my previous post in this series, I showed how easy it is to work with enumerations in PowerShell. Here's the code I've been walking through in this series: $dacl = (dir foo.txt).GetAccessControl() $newRule = New-Object Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule...
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