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Disabling support for persistent cookies

Shaun Walker, June 30, 2008

I've blogged beforeabout how to make timeouts work correctly for persistent cookies, but thought I should also flag up a minor, but often requested,enhancement that will be in DotNetNuke 5.0. Whilst p...

New tools to prevent SQL injection attacks

More Whidbey stuff, June 25, 2008

I've blogged in the past about injection attacks. Microsoft publishes additional new tools to detect and protect against injection attacks. The first tool, developed by HP, crawls web sites to automat...

My Secure Development Interview from TechEd 2008

Misfit Geek, June 25, 2008

While at TechEd 2008 I got to spend some time in the "Fish Bowl" with Georgeo Pulikkathara. Georgeo interviewed me on Microsoft's Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) and my upcoming Developer Secur...

Ruby creators warn of serious flaws

InfoWorld: Web services, June 24, 2008

The Ruby programming language, which has become popular as the basis for Web 2.0 sites such as Twitter, contains serious security flaws that could allow attackers to take over an organization's We...

Using Custom Base Class for security , modulatirity and session management

The Code Project Latest Articles, June 21, 2008

Using Custom Base Class for security , modularity and session management...

Microsoft Patches Blocked for Some Admins

Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online | News, June 16, 2008

Microsoft works to correct issue that kept some administrators using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 from downloading the latest security updates....

Misleading Error Message about Trial Period Expiration in MOSS

Colt Kwongs Blog, June 16, 2008

A very misleading error message that I came across last week.. Trial period of my MOSS has expired? No way.. check out the permission and security settings first....

Majority of Data Breaches Go Unnoticed, Study Finds

Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online | News, June 13, 2008

Verizon Business reports that more than half of the data breaches on enterprise systems go undetected and are caused by general negligence and lax security....

DotNetNuke 4.8.4 Released

DotNetNuke Developer - DotNetNuke Core Team Member and Excellent Programmer, June 11, 2008

To go along with my earlier post about DNN today, 4.8.4 has been released due to some minor security issues that were found after the 4.8.3 release shipped. You can get information about the security ...

Enable SmartPart with AJAX in SharePoint

Colt Kwongs Blog, June 9, 2008

I just try SmartPart and enable AJAX functionality in SharePoint tonight, here are few notes:1. Download and install SmartPart (make sure SmartPart is deployed and affect all WSS sites as shown in the...

Introducing CallerID Part 3

IKVM.NET Weblog, June 2, 2008

This is the last part of a three part backward running series on the design, implementation and performance results of the CallerID feature. How To Pass Information From Caller To Call...

it never rains but it pours

Joe Brinkman, May 31, 2008

As per the old proverb , we're seeing a lot of activity around security these days....

Windows Cardspace Breach ? I think NOT

Softwaremaker, May 31, 2008

I was recently pointed to this post that highlights a "successful attempt" by some students in Germany to crack Microsoft Cardspace.After reading through the post several times, I became ...

Wiki Update for May 30th

Joe Brinkman, May 30, 2008

It has been a bit since I posted a Wiki status update so here goes a quick one for this Friday evening. There is one last issue to be tracked down in the WIki before we can recompile/package and submi...

DotNetNuke is a very secure platform

Joe Brinkman, May 29, 2008

This points to post following up on an article I wrote arguing the suitability of DNN for building groupware applications. The post reflects on the recent security scare that had a number of us locked...

DotNetNuke Security Update

Shaun Walker, May 28, 2008

I mentioned in my last blog that I would post an update once we were successfully able to work through the security issues reported last week. The most important update is Version 4.8.3 was released t...

SQL Server Reporting Services Subscriptions with custom security

Clarity Blogs: ASP.NET, May 28, 2008

I ran into an interesting 'gotcha' when working with an SSRS site that has a custom security extension implemented (instead of using the built in Windows authentication model, see the MSDN sec...

DotNetNuke 4.8.3 Released

DotNetNuke Developer - DotNetNuke Core Team Member and Excellent Programmer, May 27, 2008

Last week there was a security scare within the DNN world. I won't get into many of the details, but it was actually blown way out of proportion by what used to be a prominent vendor in the DNN commun...

Enhancing the SPSecurityTrimmedControl - Trimming UI on any critereon

Sahil Malik - blah.winsmarts.com, May 27, 2008

Okay so, first, what is the SPSecurityTrimmedControl? SPSecurityTrimmedControl is a web control in the SharePoint framework that lets you show or hide certain parts of the ...

Signing Requests (or anything) with Hashes

Karl Seguin [MVP], May 22, 2008

It's common practice to use hashes for signing purposes. For example, you can take a hash (MD5, SHA1, it doesn't really matter) of a file's byte contents and use that hash to ensure the fi...

Security Lessons Learned

Joe Brinkman, May 22, 2008

Over the past couple of weeks, the DotNetNuke project has had to deal with a few different security issues.  As Shaun pointed out in his post, we take these issues very seriously and make every ...

DotNetNuke Security Notice

Shaun Walker, May 21, 2008

Since the DotNetNuke application was originally released, we have been committed to providing a highly secure web platform to the Microsoft community. Security on the web is a challenging area and we ...

SQLAuthority Download - Providing Security for Web Applications and Infrastructure: Best Practices for Managing Security Risks

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave, May 19, 2008

Providing Security for Web Applications and Infrastructure: Best Practices for Managing Security RisksThe Windows Live Security team shares best practices - from platform and network security to incid...

Webcast Schedule for June 2008

Federal Developer Weblog, May 19, 2008

Register today for our upcoming webcasts! DATE TIME LOCATION TITLE AND REGISTRATION LINK PRESENTERS OWNER TARGET AUDIENCE June 20, 2008 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast Overview of Office Open...

Vista Security Debate Continues with Follow-Up Study

Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online | News, May 16, 2008

Security software vendor PC Tools last Friday fired the latest salvo in the argument over whether Windows Vista is as secure as Microsoft says it is....

Unit tests for WCF (And Moq)

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax), May 16, 2008

As you may know, testing WCF services is not as simple as referencing a service implementation and start writing unit tests against it. If the service we want to test has a high dependency with the op...

DNS trouble knocks NSA off Internet

InfoWorld: Web services, May 15, 2008

A server problem at the U.S. National Security Agency has knocked the secretive intelligence agency off the Internet....

Study: Top Web Application Vulnerabilities Remain Unfixed

FTPOnline ASP.NET Channel, May 13, 2008

Organizations still aren't doing enough to protect their data from Web application vulnerabilities, according to a study released Tuesday by security firm Cenzic....

Survey: IT Struggling Over Security, Compliance Issues

Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online | News, May 12, 2008

IT pros are having a hard time balancing security, software patch management and IT auditing with a host of other duties, says a Shavlik Technologies survey....

Query string encryption for ASP.NET

The Code Project Latest Articles, May 8, 2008

Clear text query strings are a potential security threat for your web application. Thus, query strings should be always encrypted....

Understanding Code Access Security in .NET...

DotNetJohn.Com, May 6, 2008

This article discusses the concept of Code Access Security, its functions and the permissions related concepts....

eWeek Says - Scott Guthrie the 28th most influential person in IT !

Misfit Geek, April 30, 2008

... or so says eWeek. [ HERE ] Scott is in fine company with 10 of the 100 most important (according to eWeek) being Microsofties. 3. Steve Ballmer CEO, Microsoft 6. Jean-Philippe Courto...

Hacker's Delight

Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online | Todays Top Picks, April 30, 2008

A sample of one week's newly discovered vulnerabilities can keep hackers busy and security experts on their toes....

eWeek Says - Scott Guthrie the 28th most influential person in IT !

Misfit Geek, April 30, 2008

... or so says eWeek. [ HERE ] Scott is in fine company with 10 of the 100 most important (according to eWeek) being Microsofties. 3. Steve Ballmer CEO, Microsoft 6. Jean-Philippe Courto...

Use encoded query string with ASP.NET

The Code Project Latest Articles, April 30, 2008

In order to improve the security of ASP.NET web applications, query strings should be always encrypted....

Bad Database Security

Simple Talk, April 29, 2008

Tony Davis, on the security loopholes that arise from poor database security....

Feedback for OWASP .NET Project

ASP.NET Announcements, April 28, 2008

Hi all,We're starting up the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) .NET Project Reorganization and I'm looking for your feedback.   OWASP is a worldwide free and open communi...

Microsoft Health & Life Sciences Event Presentations

Misfit Geek, April 27, 2008

Thanks to everyone who attended my AJAX Sessions at the Microsoft Health & Life Sciences Developer's Conference in Atlantic City last week. Here are links to the PowerPoints and Demos ASP.NET A...

Microsoft Health & Life Sciences Event Presentations

Misfit Geek, April 26, 2008

Thanks to everyone who attended my AJAX Sessions at the Microsoft Health & Life Sciences Developer's Conference in Atlantic City last week. Here are links to the PowerPoints and Demos ASP.NET A...

Code Access Security Primer

Guy Barrettes WebLog, April 24, 2008

I was trying to explain quickly what Code Access Security is to someone when I found this blog entry from Emmet Gray:http://home.hot.rr.com/graye/Articles/CodeAccessSecurity.htm In a nutshell, he expl...

Federation Over TCP With WCF

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax), April 21, 2008

One of the discussions that we had during the last summit with the rest of "Connected Systems" MVPs was the possibility of supporting a Federation Scenario over TCP in WCF. For many of us that scena...

Microsoft Investigating LocalSystem Access Bug

Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online | News, April 18, 2008

Security personnel in Redmond are investigating a newly reported zero-day bug vulnerability in Microsoft operating systems and server systems....

A Park Bench, An Office, or A House

Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online | Todays Top Picks, April 14, 2008

How much security you need in Vista and Windows Server 2008 depends on where you're connecting. Choose carefully....

Weekly quickTIP: A Park Bench, An Office, or A House

Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online | Columns, April 14, 2008

How much security you need in Vista and Windows Server 2008 depends on where you're connecting. Choose carefully....

SPSecurityTrimmedControl

Software/Technology Discussion, April 14, 2008

This is one of those blog posts that I cannot take credit, but want to keep the information handy for a later time. The SPSecurityTrimmedControl shipped with WSSv3 is a very powerful control. It basi...

Security Exceptions during debug of .NET application

kbAlertz.com :: Visual Studio 2005, April 12, 2008

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OpenID 2.0 for .NET now available

Rob Howards Blog, April 12, 2008

The OpenID open source project for ASP.NET (DotNetOpenID) now supports the OpenID 2.0 specification and is available for download on Google Code: http://dotnetopenid.googlecode.com/ For businesses or ...

Microsoft, Symantec Rethink Security Approach

Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online | News, April 8, 2008

If the traditional notion of infrastructure-based perimeter security is not yet dead, it's not for lack of effort by keynote speakers at this week's RSA Security conference....

'Stirling' Beta Security Solution Released

Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online | News, April 8, 2008

Microsoft's released a public beta version of an integrated security solution, code-named "Stirling."...

Apps security testing companies ride wave

InfoWorld: Web services, April 3, 2008

Providers of applications security testing tools say business is taking off, as more customers are building such capabilities into their development lifecycles and large platform providers have picked...

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