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November 29, 2005

12 Min Read
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==== 2. Security News and Features ==== Recent Security Vulnerabilities If you subscribe to this newsletter, you also receive Security Alerts, which inform you about recently discovered security vulnerabilities. You can also find information about these discoveries at http://www.windowsitpro.com/departments/departmentid/752/752.html Qualys Launches On-Demand SANS Top 20 Scanning Service The SANS Institute recently released the 2005 SANS Top 20 Most Critical Internet Vulnerabilities report. Now Qualys, provider of vulnerability-management and policy-compliance solutions, has released a free online scanning service that helps you determine whether your Internet-facing systems are vulnerable to any of the issues in the SANS report. http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/48569 Secure Your Wireless Network Along with the benefits of wireless networks comes a need to keep them secure. Owners of unsecured networks risk lost bandwidth on their Internet connection, virus and worm infection, and potentially even criminal or civil liability if their unsecured wireless networks are used to launch attacks against others. John Howie offers advice on how to secure your wireless networks in this article on our Web site. http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/47860 Use Guest Accounts to Fight Malware Security administrators face the dilemma of needing to limit the use of administrator privileges while still giving users adequate permissions to perform their routine tasks. One solution that accommodates both needs is to let users run most applications as administrators but configure users to run applications that are most vulnerable to a malware attack under the low-privilege Guest account. Mark Burnett looks at when you might want to use a Guest account and how to set one up. http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/48300

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==== 3. Security Toolkit ==== Security Matters Blog: Can't Get LC5? Try LCP Instead by Mark Joseph Edwards, http://www.windowsitpro.com/securitymatters If you're outside the United States and Canada, you can no longer buy a copy of the popular LC5, the most recent version of the L0phtCrack password-cracking tool. However, there are alternatives, as you'll discover if you read this blog entry on our Web site. http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/48567/48567.html FAQ by John Savill, http://www.windowsitpro.com/windowsnt20002003faq Q: What's a rootkit, and how can I check for rootkits installed on my machine? Find the answer at http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/48499 Security Forum Featured Thread A forum participant wants to know if there's a tool that can help him determine which users logged on to which computers at a given time. For example, he wants to know which users logged on to any of 15 computers between 1:00 P.M. and 2:00 P.M. Join the discussion at http://forums.windowsitpro.com/web/forum/messageview.aspx?catid=42&threadid=44677&enterthread=y

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