The Firewall Blog on Forbes has an interview with Craig Heffner about DNS rebinding and home internet routers. My recommendations: keep your firmware current. Disable web administration of your internet router. And, most importantly, have a complex password for your internet router.
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Open Outlook Attachment Folder
The Outlook Attachment folder is where opened attachments reside. You may want to inspect this folder to delete sensitive documents, or to recover the attachment you edited and saved. The script OpenOutlookAttachmentsFolder.vbs opens the folder for you. Tags: Outlook+Attachments
How to Stay Safe on Public Wi-Fi Networks
How to Stay Safe on Public Wi-Fi Networks is a good basic article about securing wireless in public places.
DailyTech – Opera 10.6, The World’s Fastest Stable Browser, Tested vs. IE 9
What is the fastest Browser? Opera 10.6. I use it sometimes, and have been generally impressed. It also has the advantage of being a small market share browser, thus having less incentive for malware authors to write exploits for it. DailyTech – Opera 10.6, The World’s Fastest Stable Browser, Tested vs. IE 9.
Trojan attacks now almost solely from legitimate websites – The H Security: News and Features
“According to reports, surfers are now almost always attacked from the hacked web sites of legitimate providers. Previously the general assumption was that malware was only found on sex sites and other shady web sites, but these days all you need to do is visit the site of your favourite newspaper to come under attack.”…
UAC and vbScripts
I am spending more and more of my time on operating systems with User Access Control. ReRunUAC.vbs is a script fragment (scriptlet) which allows you to force a vbscript to run with a UAC prompt when executed. It also allows you to select the host – cscript or vbscript. Tags: UAC
How to maximize a minimized HTA file
MaximizeMeTest.HTA (MaximizeMeTest.zip) is example code for how to maximize an HTA file that has had windowstate set to mimimize. There are quite a bit of remarks about this, see, ex: http://www.scriptinganswers.com/forum2/forum_posts.asp?TID=2103 Because the state is read only after the HTA loads, I use a pretty big kludge to achieve this. The HTA writes out a temporary vbScript that…
Get information about all Exchange mailboxes
This script, AllMailBoxes.vbs, queries all of your exchange servers, returning a report with these items: NT Name, Display Name, Limit Info, Box Size(MB), Total Items, Orphaned, Store name, StorageGroupName, Server Name. Orphaned mailboxes are those that have no associated AD account. [link fixed 6/23] Tags: Exchange, mailboxes
Compare Active Directory and SCCM databases
There is no good way to see what systems are in Active Directory which are not in SCCM, and sometimes you may want to manually delete systems from SCCM that are no longer in AD. AD_SMS_Compare_and Cleanup.vbs does both. It creates a temporary mdb file (whether or not Access is installed), and two reports on your desktop. …
Create search filter for Microsoft ISA (Proxy) server
The query interface for Microsoft’s ISA server can be tedious to use. This script, CreateDestinationAndTimeFilter.vbs, creates a filter to be used by ISA server to capture all traffic to an IP during an interval of time. It was tested only with ISA 2004 Standalone Cached mode. You can run it interactively or from command line, example:…