Hey guys, Check out the Security Challenge that was launched yesterday by Visual WebGui. Basically, you should uncover the identity of the OWL (a secret agent's code name) by breaking into the Visual WebGui NOC application, which contains the NOC list with that information. In order to claim the $10...

The contest bets $10,000 that no one can hack their Empty Client Platform, Visual WebGui Tel Aviv, Israel —November 3, 2008 — Gizmox , the developer of Visual WebGui open source platform, today announced a contest, sponsored by the Company, which will pay $10,000 to anyone who can hack into its Visual...

As Jason Hogg mentions in his blog post, the Geneva Identity Management Framework (renamed from Zermatt) was announced yesterday at PDC 2008. Genvea includes: Geneva Framework - A .NET framework for writing interoperable, claims aware applicatoins Geneva STS - An STS integrated with AD. Supports issuance...

while surfing i found out that there is people that love to share knowladge. one of them is Richard Grimes. He shared a full workshop about three subjects; Fusion Workshop This workshop teaches you all of the aspects of how .NET locates and loads assemblies. Security Workshop This workshop teaches you...

One of the main benefits developers use Microsoft Enterprise Library Application Blocks for is handling application security aspects. Authorizing users against some tasks is always an essential requirement in any application. I am using .netTiers and I am more than pleased in the way it utilizes Enterprise...

Playing around with the sockets in Silverlight 2 beta 1 I found out that it works fine on my local host. When publishing my sample to a real Web server (I mean a Web server that is reachable in the Internet with a domain) I got always a socket exception saying that access is denied . I looked around...

In my last post I wrote about how you can use sockets in Silverlight 2 beta 1 . Well, when publishing my application to a Internet domain the code didn't work. I always get a socket exception: error code 10013, access denied. I have put an example online at http://frankfurt.schwarz-interactive.de:4510...

I got notice today, as others did, I have once again been named a Microsoft MVP for 2008 in the area of Visual Developer - Security. Thanks again, Microsoft, and my MVP lead Rafael Munoz, and all those who have been very supportive of my community work this past year (with my speaking at several conferences...

Like Dominick Baier and Christian Weyer of Thinktecture , I also wondered why I couldn't use a UsernameToken with Transport Security in WCF v.1. I wanted to put together a simple demo for a client and that feature just wasn't there. Dominick mentions in this post it will finally be available in WCF 3...

Once again, for the 4th year in a row, I enjoyed the one conference I make sure to book well in advance. I haven't traveled to conferences as much this year, instead focused on client-related work. This was one conference, however, I was really looking forward to attending and presenting. I am originally...