Dana Epp's ramblings at the SanctuaryLife, the Universe and everything SecurityMSDN Ignite Security Conference - My "Thinking like a Hacker" slidedeck- January 29, 2008 So it's been fun today. I have been a speaker at the Ignite MSDN Virtual Security Conference presenting to a few hundred developers interested in secure software development. I presented on how to "Think like a Hacker", where I discuss the views, motives and processes an adversary may use to attack your applications. For those that asked, you can download a copy of my slidedeck here. I have to apologize for a few of the pauses during my presentation. We are having a snow storm and the heat in..http://silverstr.ufies.org/blog/archives/001038.html Stop it! Can we stop with everyone being OpenID providers, and start being more consumers- January 17, 2008 So everyone is a buzz that Yahoo announced that it is now joining the OpenID craze. At the end of the month you will be able to visit openid.yahoo.com and set your Yahoo account to sign into other sites that support OpenID. Sounds great. Anyone tried to use their OpenID from a different IdP to get into Yahoo Ya, not so easy. Nor will it be expected too. How about AOL Or Google They all are fine being the IdP... but no one wants to trust the IdP I want to trust. This is the problem with...http://silverstr.ufies.org/blog/archives/001037.html Know of an inexpensive ASP.NET module that can collect SCORM results from Camtasia- January 15, 2008 Hey guys, If any of you out there know of a really inexpensive ASP.NET module that will collect quiz results via SCORM, can you please drop me a line at danavulscan.com I want to be able to collect the quiz results from Camtasia Studio output for use in some content where we want to measure the retention rate with small quizzes. I really don't want to buy an LMS just to do this. If you know of any solutions, please let me know. Thanks!http://silverstr.ufies.org/blog/archives/001036.html Find your bandwidth in Vista really slow Here is a simple hack for you.- January 14, 2008 So, since the beginning of beta testing on Vista I have always found the new TCP stack to be overly hyped, and rarely with the performance you would expect. Charlie and I have always hacked the registry to turn off autotuning, TCP Chimney and Receive-side scaling. Recently I had 3 employees within a matter of minutes come up to me complaining that their bandwidth sucked, which was actually affecting customers as they were getting dropped from our online chat support system. Not good. So I...http://silverstr.ufies.org/blog/archives/001035.html The Lone Server Story- January 9, 2008 I got a chuckle off of the Lone Windows Server 2003 story. Check it out. More info here.http://silverstr.ufies.org/blog/archives/001034.html RSA restructuring within EMC causes layoffs. Are you one of the employees affected Then read this!- January 9, 2008 Recently EWeek pointed out that RSA reported that they would be laying off up to 1,250 people globally in their research and sales teams as part of the EMC restructuring. I don't normally talk about business on my personal blog, but this seemed like an opportune time to point out that all is not lost. Sometimes when one door closes, another opens. If you are a driven sales associate of RSA with a proven track record in Canada, the United States, or Australia you might want to check out the...http://silverstr.ufies.org/blog/archives/001033.html Awarded with the Windows Security MVP designation for another year!- January 2, 2008 Happy New Years everyone! For a third year in a row I have been given the MVP Award from Microsoft. I am in good company. Looking back in the last year it's been really fun. I have spoken in the community from Microsoft's campus in Redmond all the way to their campus in Sydney Australia. I have keynoted at a few conferences and even helped work on the technical track at SMB Nation. I have been a subject matter expert in many areas of new products that aren't even public yet at Microsoft, and..http://silverstr.ufies.org/blog/archives/001032.html |