Larry Seltzer

Security Web Digest 03-05-2003 Security Management Winternals Software announced that the new Recovery Manager is “a couple weeks away from general release.” An enterprise-oriented tool for recovery of damaged and non-bootable Windows NT/2K/XP systems. While basically similar to Windows XPs System Restore function, Recovery Manager supports Windows 2000 and NT, can be centrally managed and […]

The past year or so had been marked by few significant Internet attacks—and none of the caliber of Code Red, ILoveYou and other pioneering attacks of years past. Then Slammer/Sapphire hit the Internet in January. The Microsoft SQL Server worm was definitely a technical innovation: Almost unbelievably, the majority of the systems affected by it […]

A significant vulnerability has been found in the popular Sendmail SMTP server that could allow an attacker to gain root access to the server. At the same time the vulnerability was announced patches and a new Sendmail version 8.12.8 were provided by many vendors. Vendors are urging administrators to apply them with all due speed. […]

According to the latest Netcraft Web Server Survey, a large number of Windows-based Apache servers are still vulnerable to known problems that have already been patched. Whats more, the authors seem to be making all the same mistakes every other Windows developer made.

Editors Note: When this review appeared in the print edition of PC Magazine (February 25, 2003), Deersofts SpamAssassin was awarded our Editors Choice. However, as we noted in the SpamAssassin review, Network Associates acquired Deersoft as we were going to press. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to us at the time, Network Associates has decided to pull SpamAssassin […]

Microsoft has released a set of documents geared towards helping network administrators secure Windows 2000 servers. According to a Microsoft posting on SecurityFocuss Bugtraq mailing list, “This is the first of several prescriptive security solutions planned for release this year. These new security solutions are designed to provide customers with authoritative, proven, and tested solutions […]

It really burns me up that security should be an issue at all with computers. That it is, I believe, says more about societys failures in teaching right and wrong than it does about computers. But security issues have always been there with computers. With the Internet, which makes all our computers accessible to all […]