July, 2001
Network Security Auditing
The most important factor in your overall network security is how well you manage the network. Even well-built, well-managed systems, however, are vulnerable to ever-new security risks, so running one or more network security auditing tools is essential.
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February, 2001
Restricting Processes
David LeBlanc shares some code to help you control the access levels that a process uses in Windows 2000.
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November, 2000
Detecting Alternate Data Streams
Alternate data streams occasionally crop up as security concerns because an attacker might use these streams to hide files. Find out how you can track down these data streams so that you can protect your systems.
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October, 2000
Understanding Process Tokens
Learn how process tokens work, and find out about a piece of code that can expose the information within these tokens to help you debug your code.
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October, 2000
Defeating Denial of Service – CPU Starvation Attacks
This week, David tells you how to protect yourself from CPU starvation attacks, where an attacker leverages your mistakes to cause your system to consume all available processing resources.
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September, 2000
Defeating Denial of Service Attacks
Learn how attackers attempt to starve the resources associated with your application and how to protect yourself from these types of Denial of Service attacks.
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September, 2000
Structured Exception Handling and Security
Learn how to use the structured exception handling (SEH) function that comes with the Win32 API to let C code handle errors in your application in much the same way that C++ handles exceptions.
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August, 2000
Setting Security, Part 2
In Part 2 of his series on Setting Security, David LeBlanc presents an application you can use to initialize the discretionary access control list on a Registry key to give Administrators full control, making your applications more secure.
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August, 2000
Setting Security
If your information is the least bit sensitive, inherited security permissions typically won’t be appropriate for your needs. Learn how to create and apply an ACL to protect your sensitive data.
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July, 2000
Controlling Socket Connections
When you're dealing with sockets and other network connections, you want to be selective about which hosts you accept connections from.
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June, 2000
Secure Services
Securing services is important to overall network security. Programmers need to be aware of the user context that a service will use and be careful when deciding which choice is right for each service.
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June, 2000
Bind Basics
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May, 2000
Parsing POP
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May, 2000
Writing a Secure POP3 Server
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April, 2000
Overflowing Buffers
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April, 2000
Avoiding Buffer Overruns with String Safety
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March, 2000
Good Programming and the Rules for Writing Secure Code
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August, 1999
Securing Custom Applications
Many software companies don't design programs with high security in mind. Protect your self by examining your system very carefully before, during, and after installing new software products.
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August, 1999
Where NT Stores Passwords
Learn about where NT stores passwords and how to protect your system.
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August, 1999
BackOffice Security
Prevent unwanted access by being aware of where passwords are stored on your system.
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