Windows Security

• by Chris Gates
• Published on 18 Jan. 2006

User2sid and Sid2user are two small utilities for Windows NT, created by Evgenii Rudny, that allow the administrator to query the SAM to find out a SID value for a given account name and vice versa. User2sid.exe can retrieve a SID from the SAM (Security Accounts Manager) from the local or a remote machine and Sid2user.exe can then be used... Read More

• by Microsoft
• Published on 11 Jan. 2006

The updated Threats and Countermeasures guide provides you with a reference to all security settings that provide countermeasures for specific threats against current versions of the Microsoft Windows operating systems... Read More

• by Robert J. Shimonski
• Published on 3 Oct. 2003

In this chapter you learn about Windows 2000 security but only as it relates to this subject matter. In other words, this chapter is not a general Windows 2000 security chapter, but rather is one customized to fit the needs of designing security within the DMZ. Of course, the chapter covers many security topics revolving around Windows 2000, but all... Read More

• by Dmytro Bolotov
• Published on 7 April 2003

This article describes a security flaw which allows unauthorized users to get administrator rights on computers that are running Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system... Read More

• by Application Security, Inc.
• Published on 29 Jan. 2003

This article documents the process of finding and exploiting buffer overrun bugs in many versions of Microsoft's SQL server... Read More

• by Microsoft
• Published on 10 Nov. 2002

• by Simple Nomad
• Published on 16 Oct. 2002
• Section: The Unofficial NT Hack FAQ

• by The Editor
• Published on 16 Oct. 2002

HP-UX 9.07 version security... Read More

• by Simple Nomad
• Published on 16 Oct. 2002
• Section: The Unofficial NT Hack FAQ

• by Simple Nomad
• Published on 16 Oct. 2002
• Section: The Unofficial NT Hack FAQ