Manage your AD – ADManagerPlus

ManageEngine has a product called ADManager plus. ADManager plus runs a self website and can run on your Windows based OS like XP, 2000(3). The free edition is limited to manage a single AD domain in a forest.Here’s the list of features Delegate-able administration – … “Manage your AD – ADManagerPlus”

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SHA-1 Is Now Crack-able

Cracking MD5 (Message Digest 5) and now, SHA-1 (Secure Hashing Algorithm), she and her team are a bunch of geniuses. They managed to crack the widely used SHA1 hashing algorithm which supposedly, succeeded MD5 after being scrambled by the same Chinese Associate Prof. Wang Xiaoyun … “SHA-1 Is Now Crack-able”

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If you use Windows 2000 DNS (for Active Directory ..etc) use only Secure Updates

Windows 2000 and later gives you the option to configure your DNS as Active Directory Integrated Zone (ADIZ). This mode is required for name and service automatic update and its super crucial to a successful Active Directory (and some of other MS products like Exchange) … “If you use Windows 2000 DNS (for Active Directory ..etc) use only Secure Updates”

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Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a cool free Site Tracking tool from, oh, you guessed it, Google. I use it for my blog sites (this) and other sites that i help manage. The best thing of it is that its free. You would need of course a … “Google Analytics”

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Malaysian DVD Pirates Out To Kill Sniffer Dogs?

Funny article. Apparently, some bad-ass Malaysian DVD pirate ring wants to hunt down and kill 2 dogs, Lucky and Flo, apparently, sniffed out their stash of DVDs and caused those pirates RM3mil in losses. As its media worth, Malaysian govt will now beef up security … “Malaysian DVD Pirates Out To Kill Sniffer Dogs?”

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RSA into AntiTrojan

RSA, famous for its authentication and encryption techniques recently announced a service to protect users from trojans. Called RSAFraudaction, is a service, an end-to-end solution that covers the identification, analysis, blocking, and shutdown of attacks. RSA will get my vote in their offerings. They have … “RSA into AntiTrojan”

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Convert stuff for free at Zamzar

Was given this site http://www.zamzar.com. It has the facility to convert stuff like movies, document, images and audio straight from your browser to your email. For free, for real!. Did try to convert a MOV (Apple Quicktime) and it did quite a wonderful job. What’s … “Convert stuff for free at Zamzar”

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Windows 2003 Service Pack 2 (and XP Pro 64bit) Released

Without much notice, publicity, hue and cry, Microsoft released Service Pack 2 for Windows 2003. This release introduces significant collection of patches and a couple of new features to the operating system. From experience, upgrading SP1 of Windows 2003 a while back broke a lot … “Windows 2003 Service Pack 2 (and XP Pro 64bit) Released”

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Firekeeper – An IPS for Firefox

I came across and installed this tool from mozdev.com that protects Firefox (1.5 or higher) against common browser based attacks on malicious sites. You can create your own rules and block off anomalies if you know how to script the rules out. The product is … “Firekeeper – An IPS for Firefox”

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