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Articles & Tutorials for November, 2005

Protect your Web Servers with SSL: Date - Nov 29, 2005; Author - Deb Shinder; Section - Articles / Web Server Security; HTTP communications are fine for the average Web server, which just contains informational pages. But if you’re thinking about running an e-commerce site or other Web services that require secure transactions, you need to be able to encrypt communications between your Web server and its clients. The most common means is by the use of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), which uses public key cryptography to protect confidential user information (such as credit card or bank account numbers) that is transmitted across the Web. In this article, we’ll discuss how SSL works and show you how to enable it on your Internet Information Services (IIS) Web servers.
The importance of having a CSO/CIO: Date - Nov 24, 2005; Author - Don Parker; Section - Articles / Misc Network Security; In most midsize to large organizations there exists a computer security group. This group is made up of various sub-groupings. Typically you will have your technical people, as well as the management. Ideally the two groups will co-exist peacefully, and in reality it is a must for the technical folks to have strong representation by the CSO or CIO.
Windows & Active Directory Auditing: Date - Nov 22, 2005; Author - Derek Melber; Section - Articles / Authentication, Access Control & Encryption; If you are like most administrators, you want to know who is logging on, to which computer, and accessing resources on your servers. For your Windows computers and Active Directory environment, you have options to help you determine what you want to know.
Use Free Microsoft Tools to Protect your Computers: Date - Nov 17, 2005; Author - Deb Shinder; Section - Articles / Misc Network Security; As part of their trusted computing initiative, Microsoft has taken a lead in offering free security tools that you can download and use to help assess the security of your computers and protect your systems against viruses, spyware, and attacks. In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the utilities they’ve made available.
Shells for Sale! (Part 3): Date - Nov 10, 2005; Author - Don Parker; Section - Articles / Viruses, trojans and other malware; We have seen over the past two articles, both the planning and the first steps taken in a practice hack, for the purpose of accumulating exploited computers. In this final part we will see the conclusion of what a semi-skilled hack would look like. Lastly, we will also see how our hacker John, is also quickly caught trying to sell his wares.
MSTerminalServices.org – New Terminal Services and Server Based Computing Website added to the TechGenix Network!: Date - Nov 08, 2005; Author - The Editor; Section - Site News; We are pleased to announce the launch of our latest site – MSTerminalServices.org - a site completely dedicated to Terminal Services and Server Based Computing related topics such as Application Hosting, Security lockdown, Profile management, Virtualization and much more...
Backing up and Restoring GPOs using the GPMC: Date - Nov 03, 2005; Author - Derek Melber; Section - Articles / Authentication, Access Control & Encryption; Without the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) administration of Group Policy takes patience, imagination, and thorough understanding of the property sheets within the Active Directory Users and Computers. The GPMC solves these problems by providing a very intuitive interface for managing all aspects of Group Policy. This article will discuss the finer points of how the backup and restore options work within the GPMC.
Shells for Sale! (Part 2): Date - Nov 01, 2005; Author - Don Parker; Section - Articles / Viruses, trojans and other malware; With the groundwork having been laid out in part one of this article series, we now move on to the actual execution of the hack. This though is a hack with a slightly higher degree of skill involved. Read on to find out more.