by Damien Stolarz
Editor’s note: This hack was written by Silvio Fiorito, who contributed it to O’Reilly’s Car PC Hacks book.
Microsoft’s XP Embedded OS can help you do what XP normally can’t—boot off …

by Mitch Tulloch, author of Windows Server Hacks
11/01/2005I’m really enjoying reading Jesper Johansson and Steve Riley’s book Protect Your Windows Network. It’s the best book on Windows security by far that I’ve seen, …

by Mitch Tulloch, author of Windows Server Hacks
11/08/2005Shadowing Terminal Services sessions is a cool feature of Windows Server 2003 that lets you remotely control the desktop session of another Terminal Services user. You …

by Mitch Tulloch
11/15/2005The security threat posed to companies by USB flash drives has been known for some time now. LabMice has a good summary of both the tremendous usefulness of these devices and …

by Anton Chuvakin
11/22/2005

Spyware
Spyware is a new strand of malicious software (or malware), annoying, and capable of robbing computer users all over the world.

In This Article:

How Spyware Works
Protecting Yourself
The Future

Spyware is such …

by Mitch Tulloch, author of Windows Server Hacks
11/29/2005An important part of hardening Windows servers against attack is disabling any unnecessary services on your machines. A freshly installed member server running Windows Server 2003 …

by Wei-Meng Lee
12/06/2005

Virtualization
Virtualization allows you to have multiple “virtual machines,” each with its own operating …

by Mitch Tulloch, author of Windows Server Hacks
12/13/2005In a previous article we looked at the bare minimum services that need to be running on a member server running Windows Server 2003 or Windows …

by Jesse Liberty
12/20/2005In my previous column I said that I will be working on an application and discussing it as I go. Well, it turns out that real customers and real life haven’t …

by Wei-Meng Lee
01/03/2006 Unit testing is one of the tasks that every programmer worth their salt needs to …

by Mitch Tulloch
01/17/2006IPSec has traditionally been used to secure remote access connections using virtual private network (VPN) tunneling protocols such as Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP). In the last few years this has …

by Wei-Meng Lee
01/24/2006 If you have ever developed mobile applications, you know the importance of using emulators. Emulators …

by Jesse Liberty
01/31/2006 Back in November, I wrote a column in which I promised to create a project …

by Mitch Tulloch
02/07/2006In my previous article An Inside Look at IPSec in Vista, I discussed how IPSec has been moving steadily from the WAN to the LAN as it finds application for securing …

by Jesse Liberty
02/14/2006 In my previous column I began writing my application PeopleLikeMe in earnest.
Quick summary: PeopleLikeMe lets …

by Wei-Meng Lee
02/21/2006Last year, I wrote a preview of IE 7 Beta 1 when Microsoft released Windows Vista Beta 1. Since then, six months have passed and the IE 7 team has released …

by Mitch Tulloch
02/28/2006As a follow-up to my previous articles on Windows DevCenter about the enhanced IPv6 and IPsec support in Windows Vista, I wanted to share with readers the following interview I had …

by Mitch Tulloch, author of Windows Server Hacks
03/07/2006Group Policy is the primary method for remotely managing the security and configuration of computers throughout an Active Directory-based network. With the upcoming release of Windows …