April 21, 2011
ColdFusion Lockdown Series - Multiple Partitions
One of the most frequent questions I get about the Adobe ColdFusion 9 Lockdown Whitepaper is:Why do you suggest using 3 partitions when installing ColdFusion?
February 16, 2010
Request Filtering in IIS 7 Howto
I've been doing some security work in Windows 2008 recently for a client, one feature I've really come to like in IIS 7 is Request Filtering.You can configure Request Filtering at the server wide level, and then override or enhance the filtering at a site / application level.
October 08, 2009
IIS: Disabling Weak SSL Protocols and Ciphers
It's no secret by now that if your web site sees credit card numbers (even if they are passed to a third party gateway) you need to comply with the PCI DSS standards.Requirement 4.
October 21, 2008
Remove X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Header
Have you ever noticed that IIS tends to brand every HTTP response with the header X-Powered-By: ASP.NET - it will do this even if your site is not powered by ASP.
December 06, 2005
Howto Disable the Server Header in IIS
Steven Erat just pointed me to a technote from Macromedia Adobe called: Configuring ColdFusion MX 7 Server Security in the comments of my securing apache config article.
November 23, 2005
Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities of 2005
SANS has published a list of the top 20 internet security vulnerabilities of 2005. The list is not however cumulative, it features security vulnerabilities that have been the most prevalent within the past year and a half.
September 01, 2005
Cheat Sheet Roundup - Over 30 Cheatsheets for developers
Lets face it, unless you have a photographic memory, no developer can remember all the different functions, options, tags, etc. that exist. Documentation can be cumbersome at times, thats why I like cheat sheets.
March 24, 2005
Apache mod_rewrite for IIS
mod_rewrite is easily my favorite module for Apache. You can use it to create very clean urls, and you can even use it for security validation.
February 22, 2005
Virtual Desktop Manager for Windows XP
The other day I blogged about a virtual desktop manager for Mac OS X - if your interested in getting one for Windows XP, you can get one from Microsoft's PowerToys download page. To enable it right click on your taskbar, goto the Toolbars menu, and select Desktop Manager.
December 06, 2004
SSH for Windows
I was recently pointed to an OpenSSH installer for Windows. This includes both the clients (ssh, scp) and a server (ssh shell server, and scp/sftp server). It also adds the clients to your path for you so you can use them from the command line.
November 09, 2004
Unix Utils for Windows
I work with unix operating systems quite a bit. So when I'm using Windows I'm often missing some of the handy little command line unix tools that are ubiquitous to unix but no where to be found on Windows. Just today I was wanting to use the GNU find utility.
July 22, 2004
Right Click to Open Command Prompt in Directory
Here's a handy tip that I got from a co-worker, who found it in the book Microsoft Visual C# .NET Step by Step. It creates a shortcut in the right click context menu of Windows Explorer to open a command prompt in the current directory.
April 14, 2004
Expose for Windows
Exposé is definitely my favorite feature in OSX, and just the other day, I found aWindows version of Exposé called iEx.
iEx does the job, but it can be a bit flaky.
December 09, 2003
xcopy - Handy tool on windows
xcopy is useful program that is included with Windows.
March 19, 2003
Right Click - Edit with Notepad
Developers and system administrators often need to open files of types that aren't mapped to a particular program. This ofcourse requires that slow "Open With" window to pop up. A trick I recently found is to add a shortcut to the right click menu, to open files with notepad.
February 01, 2003
FTP Scripts on windows
I found this Microsoft KB article today 96269 which shows you how to use the ftp program that comes with all versions of windows an automate a file transfer.
ftp -s:script.txt ftp.server.com
The contents of script.
October 18, 2002
Tab completion in Windows 2000
One of my favorite features of unix is tab completion. You can type the first letter of a directory, and then hit tab and it will complete the rest for you. This is enabled by default on Windows XP, but on windows 2000 it isn't. Here's how you enable it. Run regedit.
October 14, 2002
Uptime for Windows 2000, 2003, XP and NT
Almost every unix operating system comes with a utility called uptime that tells you how long your server has been running.Unfortunitly no such tool comes with windows, but there is a pretty fool proof way to determine the date you computer was last started.
October 10, 2002
Batch Files to Restart Services on Windows
I wrote some batch files today for restarting services on windows. The bat files can be used to restart ColdFusion MX or IIS services on Windows NT/2000/XP.Batch File to restart ColdFusion MX
@echo off
REM - File: cfmxrestart.
