Thursday, August 21, 2008

Enable Maintainanace plan for SQL Server 2005

run the script:

use msdb
GO
sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1;
GO
RECONFIGURE;
GO
sp_configure 'Agent XPs', 1;
GO
RECONFIGURE
GO

go to maintainance plan to see details about how to create them

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

SMMS - Short Message Mailing System

SMMS i.e. Short Message Mailing System

A system which provides the feature of a mailing system like (address, lists, reply, forward etc) based on SMS.

Additionally it can have a feature where a person can expose a contact list to someone he know, without the other person being aware of who all are the contact list(acting as a middle man).

This can be a faster, reliable and social way to make people aware of  things going on.

 

Monday, August 11, 2008

Windows vista security - rendered useless by researchers

LAS VEGAS -- Two security researchers have developed a new technique that essentially bypasses all of the memory protection safeguards in the Windows Vista operating system, an advance that many in the security community say will have far-reaching implications not only for Microsoft, but also on how the entire technology industry thinks about attacks.

In a presentation at the Black Hat briefings, Mark Dowd of IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS) and Alexander Sotirov of VMware Inc. discussed the new methods they've found to get around Vista Protections such as Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR), Data Execution Prevention (DEP) and others by using Java, ActiveX controls and .NET objects to load arbitrary content into Web browsers.

By taking advantage of the way that browsers, specifically Internet Explorer, handle active scripting and .NET objects, the pair have been able to load essentially whatever content they want into a location of their choice on a user's machine.

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1324395,00.html