Interesting Links
Going through the blogs I'm reading I wanted to share the following links with you.
Windows Mobile:
Version 2 of Windows Live Search for Mobile was released . There are versions for Windows Mobile 2003, Windows Mobile 5 and above, J2ME, and Blackberry.
Windows Vista:
According to Mary Jo Foley a preview of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 will be coming later this week, releasing to certain testers in just a few days. I personally can't confirm neither deny this, I just don't know when we will release SP1.
Jesper Johansson who used to work for Microsoft wrote a book about Windows Vista Security (which I ordered this week and I should arrive at my hotel tomorrow). Jesper also created some tools and I post the links to those tools hereunder because they don't come with the Book.
The tools are:
A couple of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Scripts that demonstrate how to interact with the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security. These scripts check if the firewall is on and which profile is active.
A very long (200 pages) Word document detailing the default security parameters for every built-in service in Windows Vista Ultimate. It has the ACL on the service as well as the process security parameters.
WMI script that dumps out all WMI data about the operating system
The default Group Policy settings for User Account Control (UAC) leaves out one of the UAC settings: the one that controls whether a locally defined administrator gets a full or filtered token when connecting to the computer remotely. To enable that setting to be managed using Local Security Policy or Group Policy requires a new sceregvl.inf file. The UAC chapter discusses the setting and how to use this file to add it to the security policy tools.
A tool that enables you to launch a process elevated from a command line. You run "elevate <program> [program arguments]" and it will give you the standard elevation prompt.
Netmon 3.1 has been released to the web.
Network Monitor 3.1 has the following new features:
- Mechanism for detecting new versions of Network Monitor 3 released through Microsoft Update
- Ability to capture wireless 802.11 frames in monitor mode, and scan across 802.11 physical layers and channels on Windows Vista™.
- New Reassembly Engine
- Performance improvements.
- Ability to capture on the VPN/RAS interface
- New protocol parsers
- More intuitive filtering
Technorati tags: Windows Mobile, Windows Vista, Security, Netmon