Jeffreys Ruminations - Network Blog

There’s another new MS blogger out there for the networking folks to subscribe to: Robert Hensing
He works on the MS Security Incidents Response team (one of the more thankless jobs at MS these days) and security is his forte. Actually, his first posting this morning (concerning using passphrases instead of passwords) has prompted [...]

There’s another new MS blogger out there for the networking folks to subscribe to: Robert Hensing
He works on the MS Security Incidents Response team (one of the more thankless jobs at MS these days) and security is his forte. Actually, his first posting this morning (concerning using passphrases instead of passwords) has prompted [...]

For those of you who run SSH servers (either on Windows or a UNIX variant), make sure that you are secure…� For the past few days, there has been an increase in SSH server scanning and vulnerability checking.� I noticed this yesterday when I was running an ethereal capture on the WAN side of our [...]

Here is a link to a review for some freeware Pocket PC SSH applications from eBCVG - http://www.ebcvg.com/articles.php?id=242
Link courtesy of PocketPC Thoughts…

OK - I am back from the abyss of work…
There is a new website in the Windows Server community at MS describing a technology that will be included in Windows Server 2003 Release 2 Network Access Protection. This is essentially a much more enhanced version of the VPN quarantine that debuted in [...]

I also wanted to pass along an update I got from PSS concerning WPA/PSK support on Windows 2003 Servers.. Regardless of what you may read in the Knowledge Base, there are no updates or hotfixes as of yet that will enable WPA/PSK on Windows 2003 Servers short of installing an upcoming service pack… This [...]

On the topic of Cable Guys articles - there’s a new one for July… From Joes Blog:
The July 2004 TechNet Cable Guy article is titled “Path Maximum Transmission Unit (PMTU) Black Hole Routers” and describes TCP connection problems caused by PMTU black hole routers (that silently discard packets that must be fragmented for [...]

I guess in my haze of constant work the past two weeks with office construction and server migration, I missed Joseph Davies announcement for his new blog. For those of you who don’t know Joseph, he is the head honcho on networking technical writing at Microsoft for the Windows platform (and is the wonderful [...]