Monthly Archives: February 2007

Tarpits

Posted on 20. February 2007 by Bennett

While working on a client’s Exchange server, I stumbled across an interesting knowledgebase article: SMTP tar pit feature for Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Tarpits insert a delay into certain SMTP communications that are associated with spam or with other unwanted … Continue reading →

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Automated, Scheduled Domain Controller Diagnostics

Posted on 18. February 2007 by Bennett

Wouldn’t it be nice to have the time once a week to run the dcdiag against all of your domain controllers and review the results? (yeah, right) Well, I wrote a script to automate that process. It works like this: … Continue reading →

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Retina WiFi Scanner

Posted on 13. February 2007 by Bennett

I audited my Wireless Access Point using the free Retina WiFi Scanner from eEye Digital Security. According to it, my WPA PSK key length was too short, so I increased it to around 25 characters. If you look at the … Continue reading →

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Troubleshooting SQL Server with Filemon

Posted on 13. February 2007 by Bennett

Today I came across an interesting problem while changing the SQL server service to run on a non-administrative domain account. Previously the service was configured to log in as localsystem, which has full rights locally, but no domain rights. With … Continue reading →

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Earlier Postings

Posted on 11. February 2007 by admin

…stuff imported from an earlier journal 2/3/07  I stumbled across a number of useful SQL security tools at SQLSecurity.com: http://www.sqlsecurity.com/Tools/FreeTools/tabid/65/Default.aspx 1/23/07  I ran into a problem configuring SQL XML support in IIS 6.0. When I went to do a query … Continue reading →

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