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All web applications exposed on the Internet are vulnerable to brute-force password cracking, spammed posting, or denial of service attacks. The solution to prevent such attacks is to use CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers...
Various Microsoft Windows Operating Systems support varieties of network authentication protocols, such as LM (LAN Manager), NTLM, NTLMv2 and Kerberos. The obvious thing is that the older OS won’t be able to use the newer and more secure authentication...
If you are using Windows Vista as your primary operating system, you are likely to encounter problem in accessing some SSL enabled sites, which you have been surfing smoothly using Windows XP in the past. Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista will simply...
Stop! Have you read my previous post on “ Multiple Web Sites in IIS – Part 1 ”? If you have not, I strongly recommend that you spend some time reading my previous post. As I’ve discussed in my previous post, you can configure IIS...
Microsoft Internet Information Services can be configured to host multiple web sites. I knew everybody knew this. So why am I wasting my time writing this? Or why should you waste your time reading this? Well... I am just trying to make sure that you...
Ever wonder why Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) does not work or stops working for custom host header enabled sites after installing Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1? You have ensured that you did include the site URL in the Local Intranet site...
Ever wonder why Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA) has problem displaying message composer for composing new messages and replying others' mails? It is all because of missing DHTML Editing Controls, which are not included in Windows Vista build, specifically...
When using Basic Authentication, with or without SSL, in IIS 6.0, the token created on the IIS server after authenticating the credentials provided by the browser is cached for 15 min, by default. The effect of token caching is that when another request...
Recently, GotDotNet has come up with a project on ASP.NET Internet Security Reference Implementation . For those who are wondering how to architect and implement secure ASP.NET 2.0 web applications, this is a sample that should not be missed out. "Extracted...
I bought this USB key a few months back from Sim Lim Square. It is 256MB, the brand is Imation. I don't know where I dropped it or left it in the taxi. Hopefully, someone found it and kind enough to call me and return it. I have lots of important...