Rob Chartier ~ Contemplation...

Securing Windows 2000 Server Documentation

The guides are available at:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/prodtech/Windows/SecWin2k/Default.asp

PDF versions of the guides as well as the scripts, security templates, and job aids can be downloaded at:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9964cf42-e236-4d73-aef4-7b4fdc0a25f6&DisplayLang=en

New Artice Released: Creating a Flexible Configuration Library

Check out my latest article

Creating a Flexible Configuration Library 

http://www.15seconds.com/Issue/030219.htm

Multi-vendor Game Server DDoS Vulnerability (The Epic Games/Gamespy Exploit)

Read the security advisory:  http://www.pivx.com/kristovich/adv/mk001/

Source of the exploit: http://www.pivx.com/kristovich/poc/bf1942dos.c

 Epic Games threatens to sue security researchers: http://dotnetweblogs.com/RChartier/Story/2234.aspx

Epic Games threatens to sue security researchers, Epic Games Responds... http://dotnetweblogs.com/RChartier/Story/2288.aspx

Epic Games threatens to sue security researchers, Epic Games Responds...

"Again this was a moment-of-stupidity reaction and I sincerely apologize to Pivx and the entire security community."

Read the entire email:

http://dotnetweblogs.com/RChartier/Story/2288.aspx

.Net (Hardware) Acceleration

I couldnt find any place where this was actually published by the original author, or sqlmag.com, so I decided to share it.  If  I do eventually find a link to the content online I will post it.

http://dotnetweblogs.com/RChartier/Story/2243.aspx

Epic Games threatens to sue security researchers

Here'e the complete email from pivx.com to the NTBugTraq list...

http://dotnetweblogs.com/RChartier/Story/2234.aspx

C# Design Patterns - A Must Read...

Get it, read it, study it, pratice it over and over..

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0201844532

A few more recommendations from Andy Smith:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0201633612

and

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0735614229

Happy 5th to XML...

http://www.w3.org/

http://www.w3.org/XML/

 http://www.w3.org/2003/02/xml-at-5.html

Parasites...

Check this out...

http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/

runs a simple detection script agianst your browser to check for some annoying little infections...found the crappy Cytron "parasite" living in my browser..how very annoying.

Its gonna be a long night...

Sunday night, 1:30am, started at 8am...still going at it...going a little buggy with all the C#..i fear my dreams tonight. nothing but abstract classes fighting with interfaces, while my wsdl's cry in the corner...i hope i can sleep before 5am comes....

can you tell i have a deadline for tomorrow...