http://praetorianprefect.com Information security, a little slower...a little deeper Fri, 16 Mar 2012 05:46:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/03/3473/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/03/3473/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:38:40 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=3473 Today is patch Tuesday for March 2010, and Microsoft has released two security bulletins for this round of updates, neither of which are deemed critical. The second bulletin addresses seven different vulnerabilities across various versions of Microsoft Office Excel.]]> http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/03/3473/feed/ 0 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/01/disable-acrobat-reader-pdf-in-the-enterprise/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/01/disable-acrobat-reader-pdf-in-the-enterprise/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:37:42 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=2856 posted instructions for users to disable JavaScript, giving them the option to enable it only when necessary. However, if you have made the decision to make this change across your enterprise or to a specific user base, this manual process is not practical. Therefore, a Group Policy Object is best to handle the task at hand.]]> http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/01/disable-acrobat-reader-pdf-in-the-enterprise/feed/ 2 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/regular-or-decaf-tool-launched-to-combat-cofee/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/regular-or-decaf-tool-launched-to-combat-cofee/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:21:34 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=2250 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/regular-or-decaf-tool-launched-to-combat-cofee/feed/ 8 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/six-bulletins-in-last-patch-tuesday-of-2009/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/six-bulletins-in-last-patch-tuesday-of-2009/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:39:55 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=2088 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/six-bulletins-in-last-patch-tuesday-of-2009/feed/ 1 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/11/how-to-crash-windows-7-and-server-2008/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/11/how-to-crash-windows-7-and-server-2008/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:16:28 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/11/how-to-crash-windows-7-and-server-2008/ his blog, demonstrating a much too easy way to remotely crash a Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 machine. The crash is caused by sending a NetBIOS header which specifies that the SMB packet is 4 bytes smaller or larger than it actually is. In this code sample below, you can see that the header has the length of the packet set to 9a rather than 9e (4 bytes smaller).]]> http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/11/how-to-crash-windows-7-and-server-2008/feed/ 25 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/10/server-2008-r2-active-directory-functional-levels/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/10/server-2008-r2-active-directory-functional-levels/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:12:14 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=758 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/10/server-2008-r2-active-directory-functional-levels/feed/ 8