Security

Microsoft has released a beta version of UrlScan 3.0. UrlScan is a security tool that restricts the types of HTTP requests that Internet Information Services (IIS) will process. By blocking specific HTTP requests, UrlScan helps prevent potentially harmful requests from being processed by web applications on the server. UrlScan can also be configured to help against SQL injection attacks. Download UrlScan 3.0 beta: x86 version x64 version Supported platform: Internet Information Services 5.1, 6.0 or …

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Microsoft has released ISA Server 2006. ISA Server 2006 is the integrated edge security gateway that helps protect your IT environment from Internet-based threats while providing your users with fast and secure remote access to applications and data. Read more at the Microsoft ISA website and download a trial. 

Microsoft has updated the Windows Server 2003 Security Guide to version 2.1. This updated version of the Windows Server 2003 Security Guide provides specific recommendations for hardening computers that run Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) in three distinct enterprise environments. The Legacy Client (LC) environment must support older operating systems such as Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98. In the Enterprise Client (EC) environment, Windows 2000 is the earliest version of …

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