Brett Hill

Brett Hill is technical product manager at Microsoft in charge of technical readiness for Microsoft Partners with Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite. He operates www.iistraining.com and maintains a blog at brettblog.com.

brett@iisanswers.com

Brett’s Recent activity

FireFox Discussion
Nov 22, 2004
Excellent discussion on the FireFox issues. I guess my point in all this is that FireFox is here to stay and only time will tell if that results in the opportunity for a more secure browsing environment. The post...
IE Explorer is the weakest link
Nov 16, 2004
Hardening servers is usually focused on keeping the bad guys out. But with the recent rapid fire release of serious exploitable problems in IE, server security needs to also include a renewed commitment to keeping...
Windows OS on Voting Machines not Pen Tested
Nov 11, 2004
Server hardening is not a simple task, and a voting machine in some cases is just another windows box. While I'm not a consirpacy nut or anything some details posted on BlackBoxvoting.org have to get your attention...
DoS attacks for Hire
Nov 10, 2004
It's probably harder to hack into a financial instuation web server/network than to simply bring it to its knees via DoS attack. This MSNBC.com article http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6436834/ reports of several instances...
FireFox: will this be the end for Internet Explorer
Nov 09, 2004
FireFox made it version 1 finally. A lot of people are advocating switching to using it instead of IE in order, primarily, to avoid the continuing stream of security issues with IE. I think there is some wisdom and...
Passphrases
Nov 02, 2004
Password strength continues to be a dominating weakness in terms of security. Crackers get smarter, processing power increases resulting in the need for longer and longer passwords.We actually way past the place where...
Prediction!
Oct 12, 2004
Microsoft has recently announced several critical security update as detailed at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin.ms04-oct-mspx.Two observations I'd like to offer. The time from annoucement of a...
This is how it goes sometimes
Oct 12, 2004
I find out about hacked servers like this "hey Brett, can you tell me if you've seen dufus.exe running on an IIS server?", or "My log files dissappears and our site was defaced, do you think I was hacked?"I'm being...
Welcome to the You've Been Hacked Blog
Sep 26, 2004
Greetings and welcome to the You've Been Hacked Blog! Over the next few monthsm we're going to be having a strong, frank discussion of security matters related to Micorosoft opearating systems, services, and products...
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