http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F1FC413C-6D89-4F15-991B-63B07BA5F2E5&displaylang=en

I just found this the other day and will save me purshasing a conversation tool for word to PDF.

Hope this helps someone else in the future, Not sure Adobe will love MS for this but it is great for consumers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7707016.stm

The last time I saw 3.x was actually last month.. my dad still runs it for a flight sim!!

James

http://blogs.technet.com/neilcar/archive/2008/10/31/sql-injection-hijinks.aspx

Neil Capenter shows another example of why ASP and using Black list is a really bad idea.

This is really interesting because it shows
"ASP drops a percent sign from the query string if it isn't followed by two valid hex characters(0-9, A-F) when it actually interprets it via Request.QueryString. "

Neil proves this in a test page it shows that the earlier attacks are again being updated to go past filters. If companies have patched a fix over this type of hole then they will be facing a more complete attack soon.

http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1697

The new version of URL scan specifically checks for this and is worth having in your toolkit.

http://www.thefircrofttrust.org/blog/index.php
Well done Sam.

James

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7695933.stm

I think I am about to declare vista dead. Long live Windows 7.. Hopefully it will follow in the foot steps of Windows Server group because the server poducts seem to be getting better and better. As server/network admin though it means I am never going to be able to sell Vista at the business level, windows XP is going to rule until 7 has been released, this I have to say is a mistake on MS part if they are not seriously going to release 7 in the next 2 years, because peak shows like this just mean I have no chance of actually convincing someone in a business to spend money in a vista direction..Lets not even talk about the cloud...MS you really need to start delivering and show a real long term position rather than following the latest trend, your are effecting your long term partnership positions.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/22/anatomy_of_a_hack/

Having spent a good couple of hours this week cleaning up XP Antivirus 2008 and one case having to do it twice..Sigh It is was very interesting to see this article. Everyone should read it, the quality of the attack that XP Antivirus 2008 uses is quite scary and will probably start to set a bench mark for coming attack. It will require a lot of education to protect user for this time of threat.

Just tried searching in Cuil for Unwind Software Ltd, not sure I like the image ideas they have, considering they seem to get it horribly wrong. Surely this is lawsuit waiting to happen, have no idea who FDM Software are but they seem to imply by the logo they are Unwind Software Ltd.

I assume I am not the only one, why though are they using images across domains, surely that is a reciepe for complete disaster.. Could you not posion high profile site images logo in Cuil with an image if you crafted a page that had the right keywords and the wrong images on it..