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http://exchangepedia.com/blog/2008/01/exchange-server-2007-renewing-self.html

Link above is for renewing the  self-signed certificate

GetMac

start > run > type cmd

Type GetMac into a command prompt for use GetMac /?

How to hide the physical drives in Windows Explorer

If you don’t want your individual physical drives/partitions to show up in Windows Explorer or My Computer (you’ll still be able to access them from the Run box), you can do so by editing the registry. Here’s how:

Open the registry editor and navigate to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer

In the right details pane, right click an empty space and select New, then Binary Value.

Name the new value “NoDrives” (without the quotation marks).

Double click the value and in the Value Data field, enter the following numbers, depending on the drive letter(s) you want to hide:

C: 04 00 00 00

D: 08 00 00 00

E: 10 00 00 00

F: 20 00 00 00

G: 40 00 00 00

H: 80 00 00 00

I: 00 01 00 00

J: 00 02 00 00

K: 00 04 00 00

If you have drive letters that extend past K, you’ve probably figured out the pattern by now. If not, see the full list here:

http://www.wxpnews.com/AJB4NJ/081202-Hide-Drives

Windows 7 has a much more aggressive firewall built in. And the added security that is on by defualt can also get in the way.

On Windows7 machines make sure that you have network discovery enabled along with file and printer sharing.

Open port 18086 inbound to the agent machine. Port 18082, 135, 139 and 445 need to be open for incoming and outgoing connection to the Vipre server. Note that port 139 and 445 are enabled by default if file and printer sharing is enabled.

If the system meets all these requirement you should be able to push deploy with no problems. As for installing with the MSI package the only thing i could see getting in the way is the User Account Controls. That being the case if you log on with and administrator account and then right click the MSI and run as an administrator it should succeed.

Confidential online connections like banking transactions made from public wireless hotspots remain vulnerable to attacks despite improved security that was supposed to fix the problem, researchers will demonstrate at the Black Hat security conference.

The vulnerability means that attackers can lurk in the middle of what victims think are secure SSL sessions with banks, retailers and other secure Web sites, picking off passwords and other information that can be used later to steal account funds or compromise confidential business data, say the researchers, Mike Zusman, a consultant with Intrepidus, and Alexander Sotirov, an independent researcher.

An improved method of qualifying businesses for SSL certificates – called extended validation (EV) SSL turns the address bar in browsers green to assure users that the connection is in fact being made using EV SSL certificates. It is supposed to indicate that end users are connecting with a legitimate business, not an attacker. To do so, the entity obtaining the SSL certificate has undergone prescribed scrutiny and qualified for the certificate.

But a green bar may hide the fact that the browser is actually connecting using SSL certificates approved via the traditional, less secure version of certificate issuance called domain validation (DV), which has no guarantee that such validation criteria were met, Zusman says. Those DV connections can be compromised by attackers.

Fixing the vulnerability is complex and would require all Web sites to conform, so the best defense is to avoid using insecure public Wi-Fi networks, he says. “Use EVDO [broadband wireless service] or some other mobile broadband service that makes it more difficult to execute this type of attack,” he says. “Keep yourself out of situations where attackers can get at you.”
To take advantage of this weakness, hackers would set up laptops in a public Wi-Fi zone and use well known methods for compromising the wireless access points such as ARP or DNS spoofing or hacking management platforms.

With control of the DNS for the access point, the attackers can establish their machines as men-in-the-middle, monitoring what victims logged into the access point are up to. They can let victims connect to EV SSL sites – turning the address bars green. Subsequently, they can redirect the connection to a DV SSL sessions under a certificates they have gotten illicitly, but the browser will still show the green bar.

“The scary part is that from the victim’s side there’s really no sign that anything went wrong unless they look at the EV SSL session on the certificate that is served,” Zusman says, which is something most users don’t do.” After the fact they may see that someone accessed their account, but during the attack it’s very difficult to detect.”

Attackers could drop malware into victims’ browsers that would grab passwords later when they access sensitive sites from secure networks that the attackers have not cracked, he syas.

Many Web sites are hybrid in that EV SSL is required to log in, but elements of the pages are protected by DV SSL certificates. One example is Google Analytics service doesn’t require EV SSL to access customer data, but that data could be part of a Web page that does require EV SSL certificates for entry.

“The fix requires pretty basic changes to the way browsers deal with EV certs,” Sotirov says. If elements of the page use DV SSL certs, the browser would not display them, he says, which could break Web sites from the user’s perspective. “It wouldn’t invalidate the entire site just that part with content from third-party, non-EV SSL servers.”

Web sites can fix their end of the problem by adopting all EV SSL certs for all the elements of their sites, even those served by third parties. That would require creators of Web sites to find out whether all the elements of their pages use EV SSL certificates.

But makers of Web browsers would also have to adapt. Web browsers need to be able to detect and prevent the intermingling of DV SSL protected content with EV SSL protected content, Zusman says. They would also need to consider the type of certificate involved when they apply same-origin policy, which determines how to handle elements originating from the same site. Once these changes are in place, a web server that serves only EV SSL-protected content should theoretically be immune from these types of attacks, he says.

If you’ve ever had Windows Update fail, you know what a headache it can be to get it working again. Sometimes it happens because the file was somehow corrupted during the download or interrupted, and Windows tries to install it anyway. It will keep trying because it thinks the update files are there. If your computer hasn’t been formatted in a while this can also free up a lot of space on your hard drive. I’ve seen it clear up to 2 GB of space, because the updates are installed but the cache is never deleted.

1. Open a Command Prompt. Click Start > Run and type “cmd” then hit “OK” This should bring up the black box that is the Command Prompt.
2. Type “net stop wuauserv”. This shuts down the windows update service so you can delete the files.
3. Still on the Command Prompt, type “cd /d %windir%” or “cd\windows” If you have problems at this step type “cd..” until you only have C:\ then type “cd windows” and you’ll be in the right directory.
4. Type “rd /s SoftwareDistribution”
5. And you’re done. We just need to restart the windows automatic update service again by typing “net start wuauserv” so that the downloads that were stuck will re-download.

This is my first post as a guest blogger on Summeylabs.com   I’d like to thank Ryan for the opportunity to share some knowledge.  -Andrew

I wrote an application in c# called “YourTube” to help you download your YouTube videos.

This app will allow you to download YouTube vids in the following  qualities:

-Regular quality

-High quality

-High Def (720)

I hope this will help you archive your favorite YouTube vids, and remember please donate!

DOWNLOAD

Thank you

-Summey

In the never-ending battle to protect computer networks from intruders, security experts are deploying a new defense modeled after one of nature’s hardiest creatures — the ant.
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Unlike traditional security devices, which are static, these “digital ants” wander through computer networks looking for threats, such as “computer worms” — self-replicating programs designed to steal information or facilitate unauthorized use of machines. When a digital ant detects a threat, it doesn’t take long for an army of ants to converge at that location, drawing the attention of human operators who step in to investigate.

The concept, called “swarm intelligence,” promises to transform cyber security because it adapts readily to changing threats.

“In nature, we know that ants defend against threats very successfully,” explains Professor of Computer Science Errin Fulp, an expert in security and computer networks. “They can ramp up their defense rapidly, and then resume routine behavior quickly after an intruder has been stopped. We were trying to achieve that same framework in a computer system.”

Current security devices are designed to defend against all known threats at all times, but the bad guys who write malware — software created for malicious purposes — keep introducing slight variations to evade computer defenses.

As new variations are discovered and updates issued, security programs gobble more resources, antivirus scans take longer and machines run slower — a familiar problem for most computer users.

Glenn Fink, a research scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Wash., came up with the idea of copying ant behavior. PNNL, one of 10 Department of Energy laboratories, conducts cutting-edge research in cyber security.

Fink was familiar with Fulp’s expertise developing faster scans using parallel processing — dividing computer data into batches like lines of shoppers going through grocery store checkouts, where each lane is focused on certain threats. He invited Fulp and Wake Forest graduate students Wes Featherstun and Brian Williams to join a project there this summer that tested digital ants on a network of 64 computers.

Swarm intelligence, the approach developed by PNNL and Wake Forest, divides up the process of searching for specific threats.

“Our idea is to deploy 3,000 different types of digital ants, each looking for evidence of a threat,” Fulp says. “As they move about the network, they leave digital trails modeled after the scent trails ants in nature use to guide other ants. Each time a digital ant identifies some evidence, it is programmed to leave behind a stronger scent. Stronger scent trails attract more ants, producing the swarm that marks a potential computer infection.”

In the study this summer, Fulp introduced a worm into the network, and the digital ants successfully found it. PNNL has extended the project this semester, and Featherstun and Williams plan to incorporate the research into their master’s theses.

Fulp says the new security approach is best suited for large networks that share many identical machines, such as those found in governments, large corporations and universities.

Computer users need not worry that a swarm of digital ants will decide to take up residence in their machine by mistake. Digital ants cannot survive without software “sentinels” located at each machine, which in turn report to network “sergeants” monitored by humans, who supervise the colony and maintain ultimate control.

The source

These are the settings for uTorrent. others can be found here

http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-encrypt-bittorrent-traffic/

1. Go to: Options > Preferences > BitTorrent

2. Go to ‘Protocol encryption’, you can choose between ‘enabled’ and ‘forced’. ‘Enabled’ will give you more connections but offers less protection against traffic shapers.

I would recommend to try ‘enabled’ first, if that doesn’t increase your speeds you need to swich to ‘forced’.

3. Ticking ‘Allow legacy incoming connections’ allows non ecrypted clients to connect to you. This improves compatibility between clients but makes you more vulnerable to traffic shapers.

I would recommend to tick this box, but if that doesn’t increase your speeds, untick it!

Good luck and happy torrenting

-Summey

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3899/

This toolbar will help you in testing sql injections, XSS holes and site security. It is NOT a tool for executing standard exploits and it will NOT learn you how to hack a site. Its main purpose is to help a developer do security audits on his code. If you know what your doing, this toolbar will help you do it faster. If you want to learn to find security holes, you can also use this toolbar, but you will probably also need a book, and a lot of google.

-summey