Stumbled across some great articles about FTP, SSL and Active/Passive settings made by Alun Jones (Security MVP). How FTP Data Connections Work Part 1 (OR: Don’t Open Port 20 in your Firewall!) How FTP Data Connections Work Part 2 (OR: Fun With Port 20) FTP 7.5 + SSL + Non-default port / AspNetAuth Thanks to … Read more
The IIS team has made the URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 Release To Web (RTW) available for download. This is a final, production-ready release that is officially supported by Microsoft. Overview URL rewrite module provides a rule-based rewriting mechanism for changing requested URL’s before they get processed by web server. The module can be … Read more
Stumpled across a interesting new module for IIS 7.0: Helicon APE (APache Emulation) by Helicon Tech, currently in beta and available for download. Helicon Ape is a unique module that emulates Apache execution environment on Microsoft IIS. It literally implements Apache configuration model (like .htaccess and httpd.conf files) and all most demanded Apache modules in … Read more
About a week ago, the IIS Team released an updated version 3.1 of the URLScan tool. If you are running ver. 3.0, it’s recommended that you upgrade to URLScan 3.1. URLScan is the tool to protect your websites against SQL Injection Attacks, the new version is updated to handle new variation of attacks. Our internal … Read more
The IIS Team has released the final version (1.0) of the IIS Media Pack. IIS Media Pack 1.0 currently includes the Bit Rate Throttling and Web Playlists extensions for IIS 7.0, which enable you to: Save bandwidth costs by throttling the speed at which content is downloaded Decrease network traffic by metering your media deliveries … Read more