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Sponsor |  c3 | Oct 6, 2007 9:28am | Plug one of the Big holes in Vista....Hidden Shares
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Turn Off Hidden Shares
With all the attention that spyware, phishing, e-mails, and corporate hackers get on any given day, we mustn't forget that good ol' Windows itself can be the source of a security hole. It turns out that Vista has a back door that could permit someone else to read any file on your hard drive, and the same problem exists in Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP. But don't expect a fix anytime soon. This bug is a "feature."
Enter Administrative Shares, which let network administrators perform maintenance remotely. The feature--which is turned on by default--works by sharing your entire hard drive, and then hiding the share by adding a $ character as a suffix. But unless you're in a corporate environment, you have nothing to gain by leaving this back door open--and everything to lose. 
Plug the hole
In the Windows Registry (Start | Run, regedit), navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver\parameters, and create two new DWORD values, AutoShareServer and AutoShareWks, both set to zero.
Better yet Toss the Vista disk out the window. Company's like dell will be still sellinging OEM Version of Xp until June Next Year...
What does that tell you about Vista....Another WindowsME ?
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Sponsor | | hitsland | Oct 7, 2007 4:43pm | | Thanks c3... very important info... |
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|  CrazyBastard | Oct 14, 2007 11:28am | Hardrive Secrets.....
NTFS Performance Hacks----------->tinyurl.com/dwto9 [tinyurl.com/dwto9]
  NTFS Performance Hacks by Mitch Tulloch
One way of improving the performance of your Windows XP machine is to tweak the NTFS file system. In certain scenarios, simple changes can make a big difference; that's because hard disks are often a primary bottleneck in today's machines, which have fast processors and lots of memory. Let's look quickly at ten ways you can boost performance using NTFS (or not using NTFS) on Windows XP.
1. Disable Short Filenames By default, NTFS creates an 8.3 filename every time it creates a long filename, which adds a bit of time to the file creation process. To speed things up, you can disable short filenames using the fsutil command:
fsutil behavior set disable8dot3 1
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| | TunaFishEnTonial | Oct 19, 2007 6:36am | You are as secure as THEY WANT YOU TO BE.....
As Secure As They Want You To Be by Chris Pirillo on October 17, 2007 at 6:17 pm · · Related Posts
Categorized in GnomeREPORT Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Comcast has announced its new surveillance policy. Its storage practices regarding customer information closely follows the letter of the law. Anything you do online can be tracked by your Internet provider, as mandated by law enforcement officials.
The Comcast Cable Law Enforcement Handbook outlines all aspects of what information is collected, stored, how long it is stored, and under what circumstances that information is released.
All of Comcast's policies seem to follow the letter of the law, and seem to weigh customer privacy with law enforcement's requests. This is in apparent contrast to AT&T and a number of other telecommunication companies, which have been only too happy to give over subscriber records. According to the handbook, Comcast keeps logs for up to 180 days on IP address allocation, and it does not keep all of your emails forever (45 days at most).
VoIP phone records are stored for two years, and cable records can only be retrieved upon a court order. Let me repeat, this is in contrast to AT&T and other companies' policies regarding information sharing.
Comcast has actually stepped up to the plate, and stated outright that it will not release this information without proper court procedure being followed. Several telecommunications companies don't follow this, and tend to just hand over customer information willy-nilly.
If you don't want them collecting and storing your information, be careful what you do online. Don't do anything illegal, and you'll be fine (so we're told). Want to embed this video on your own site, blog, or forum? |
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Sponsor | | SlowHand | Oct 21, 2007 4:00am | Security Hole
If you have RealPlayer installed and use Internet Explorer to browse the web, beware: an exploit in circulation can allow an attacker to take complete control of your machine, Symantec is warning.
"If you have RealPlayer installed, simply visiting a malicious Web page can put your computer at risk," a Symantec blog post explains. "The player does not need to be running."
The ActiveX object being exploited resides in the the RealPlayer component ierpplug.dll. Attack code reviewed by Symantec causes RealPlayer to download and execute a copy of Trojan.Zonebac. |
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| | SickBastard | Oct 22, 2007 5:57pm | thank you.
I was Leary a About Real Media player even way back in 97 |
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Sponsor | | c3 | Oct 22, 2007 11:25pm | | :) |
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|  BlackHat | Oct 23, 2007 4:35pm | Forget about XP SP3, and Vista SP1, Have a Taste of Windows 7 - Just 25 MB and Tuning with 40 MB Ram
By: Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor
tinyurl.com/33ge58 [tinyurl.com/33ge58]
Enlarge pictureThe third service pack for Windows XP and the first major refresh for Windows Vista, are not even out in final form, as Vista SP1 moved from pre-beta to fully fledged beta, followed by a preview of XP SP3, but the releases are already old news. In parallel with the development of Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, Vista SP1 and XP SP3, Microsoft is also focusing on building Windows 7, formerly codenamed Vienna. Windows 7 is designed to be the successor of Windows Vista, and is currently planned for 2010. Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Eric Traut gave a presentation of the kernel of Windows 7, the operating system's core, which is designed to have a minimal footprint.
MiniWin "is the core of Windows 7. It is a collection of components that we've taken out. A lot of people think of Windows as this really large, bloated operating system, that's maybe a fair characterization, I could admit. It is large, it contains a lot of stuff in it, but at its core, the kernel and the components that make up the very core of the operating system, actually its pretty streamlined. It's still bigger than I'd like it to be but we've taken a shot recently at really stripping out all of the layers above and making sure that we have a very clean architectural layer", Traut revealed.
MiniWin is an internal only product. Microsoft plans in no way to productize MiniWin; however, the bare-bone kernel will act as the core for a lot of the company's solutions. Traut gave a presentation of the Windows 7 source code base that occupies only 25 MB of disk space. The amount is virtually insignificant compared with the 4 GB that Windows Vista manages to take out. Of course that the MiniWin stripped down kernel is an integer part of Microsoft's strategy to deliver a modular installation of its operating system, something already done with Windows Server 2008's core installation. MiniWin is composed of approximately 100 files and it will run with just 40 MB of RAM. But at the same time it does not come with a graphics subsystem and only brings to the table a rudimentary HTTP server. You can access a video of Traut's presentation of Windows 7 and MiniWin via this link. " |
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