Hi All,

Another site dealing with security has been launched... go check out http://www.securitytube.net

I received this link via a Group Membership from Google Groups... the little blurb that came with it says the following,

"a community driven videos website for
computer networking and security related fields. Though there are many
video sharing websites available online, SecurityTube.Net is strictly
focussed on hosting computer networking and security videos only."

I have not really gone through all the content but it seems pretty decent with some interesting stuff for those trying to get to grips with some the terms and technologies.

Regards

Chris

Absolutely recommend this to everyone... the first one was great and I have used it to test the use of default passwords on a domain I was pen-testing

Show me a hacker that looks like Maggie Q in DH4 

Hi Firemastrr,

First question is what is it you want to do? As a general OS Vista is better than XP... we ran Vista since beta 2 and the question that I always asked my pilot user group at the end of each 'bug' report session was.. 'Ok who wants to go back to XP'... no one ever did and since we have rolled it throughout the enterprise life has become a lot simpler as far as support goes. However third party apps are still playing some catch up so you may need to run emulators and virtual machines to get your old apps to function properly

Is Vista more secure than XP... yes it is due to its dual user and user account control very little happens without the user being aware... that being said security is all relative and already some hacks and rootkits exist for Vista. Not as many as any other OS but then again Vista is the new kid on the block and not that prevalent yet.

From a business and commercial point of view you need to ask yourself... what added benefits will Vista give me at this time should I upgrade... is there software that you need that only runs on Vista? Is your hardware built for Vista? etc...

The one downside is that it is a resource monster and you will not get away with less than 1.5GB of RAM just to have some decent performance from your machine.

Is Vista good... how long is a piece of string I guess... hope this post has helped answer your question a little.

C

I agree. Let's create one from scratch that we know belongs to the EH community and something that everyone can contribute to.

Don, perhaps you could think of an incentive competition to get the new 'flag' off the ground in this forum 

Chris

Good day All,

I have been playing with the trial versions of Forefront as well as running OneCare on my private machine for some time now and if I had to find one word I'd say all-in-all it works. The two are miles apart in my experience but allow me to elaborate.

OneCare is a total 'care' package for the desktop and runs as a standalone. The thing I enjoyed most about it is that it prompted you to defrag and backup as well as running live protection for malware. Is it the best AV engine? I really don't know but the best part about it as with every MS product is it integrates well into the full Microsoft Suite.

Forefront is an enterprise product. As you know there are many flavours of Forefront some released and some still in beta. Forefront client security is released but a bit of an issue to install as it needs a whole host of add-ons that run on a management server. Although I am reluctant to install version 1 of any AV but Microsoft in their literature state that this client in fact takes the AV Databases of 5 or so vendors, and by so doing it does not run its own independent AV database. This too for the AV engines in the client it runs. So it is in fact a hybrid application taking what MS believe to be the best of everything and integrating it so nicely for you. The real adoption for Forefront in an enterprise environment though will be aided by existing licensing agreements which will outbid competing AV products on volume discounts. As always with their products it integrates well with WSUS, System Center and ISA as well as the newer IAG they are pushing.

Either way you see it... pro or against MS, I believe they have taken a step in the right direction in securing their products as well as breaking into the AV market with half-decent products. They have also touted security as the fundamental to their new generation of client and server OS's.

The best of everything to all for 2007!!

Chris

Great insight and well done on getting it. :-D

Hola All,

I have been running Vista RC2 for the past couple of weeks and find it quite stable and usable... at this point I would not want to go back to XP SP2.

If only they would get all the necessary hardware drivers ready we would not need the many workarounds we have been dealing with 3rd party devices which do not have an MS partnership.

On the whole though there will be a few patches once its relaeased but I still think its the best OS yet.

I am sure you will all disagree... so please go ahead :-)

Later

C