Earlier today Microsoft released the newest version of the .NET Framework. If you have any previous beta versions installed, you must uninstall them before installing the final release. Make sure to install the Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF), November 2006 CTP as... Read more

Just noticed this, apparently it was announced several weeks ago, but TechEd 2007 is now back in Orlando instead of New Orleans. Microsoft has made the difficult decision not to hold TechEd 2007 in New Orleans. With this event drawing a large number of attendees from around the... Read more

eWEEK Security Center Editor Larry Seltzer just published an article on eWEEK.com providing his opinion on the benefits, and limitations, of PatchGuard. In the article, Larry reiterates some of the points I made in my post on PatchGuard a few days ago, namely: Only 64-bit Windows... Read more

And you thought it would never happen… Secunia, a Danish security vendor, has found a vulnerability in the WMI Object Broker ActiveX Control (WmiScriptUtils.dll) that allows an attacker to gain access to the system. If the attack is successful, the attacker would have the same rights as the local user.... Read more

If anyone has been following this technology closely, there have been a lot of complaints by some of the security vendors regarding PatchGuard. I first heard about this technology at TechEd 2006 in a lot of the Vista sessions. The recent controversy caused me to do a little more research... Read more