News of the day…
The daily link list...
News of the day... whatever.. here it is.
Network Access Controls - NetworkWorld has a great article entitled 'How much can a LAN Switch protect your network".. It's a high level, quick reference guide to 802.11x, packet filtering and VLAN "schwinging"
Mozilla rolls out 1.5.0.8 - The actually interesting point of this article wasn't that there were more vulns in Firefox and that an update was required... but that Mozilla plans to end support and security updates for Firefox 1.5.x in April of 2007. Just a quick heads up for everyone.
PNRP (Peer Network Resolution Protocol) - I'm probably slow to the gate on this one, but I came across PNRP for the first time today.... I can't say I'm overly impressed, or see a real use to this... The "technical documentation" is not technical at all... giving no real details to how it works.. It looks like routing to me... "Do you know how to get to this address". This technical document also outlines how it overcomes DNS shortcomings like caching, but then goes on to mention how PNRP hosts will look in their cache... It's also an IPv6 only technology... I'd love more details if anyone has them... perhaps something technical instead of this Microsoft marketing speak... I may do more research on this in the near future.
Vista RTM - Not much else to say but Vista has gone Gold.
Process Monitor - This product comes out of the Microsoft/Sysinternals team... It's a combination of Filemon and Regmon. From the Microsoft Site:
Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and Regmon, and adds an extensive list of enhancements including rich and non-destructive filtering, comprehensive event properties such session IDs and user names, reliable process information, full thread stacks with integrated symbol support for each operation, simultaneous logging to a file, and much more. Its uniquely powerful features will make Process Monitor a core utility in your system troubleshooting and malware hunting toolkit.
Vista Security Guide - From the site:
Welcome to the Windows Vista Security Guide. This guide provides instructions and recommendations to help strengthen the security of desktop and laptop computers running Windows Vista™ in a domain with the Active Directory® directory service.
In addition to the solutions that the Windows Vista Security Guide prescribes, the guide includes tools, step-by-step procedures, recommendations, and processes that significantly streamline the deployment process. Not only does the guide provide you with effective security setting guidance, it also provides a reproducible method that you can use to apply the guidance to both test and production environments.
The key tool that the Windows Vista Security Guide provides for you is the GPOAccelerator.wsf script. The tool enables you to run a script that automatically creates all the Group Policy objects (GPOs) you need to apply this security guidance. The Windows Vista Security Guide Settings.xls file that also accompanies this guide provides another resource that you can use to compare setting values.
That's it for today... I've got a bigger issue, regarding the MS/Novell deal... however it requires it's own post.
Peace,
HT