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		<title>Microsoft Vulnerability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday July 28th, Microsoft contacted MAPPs partners, of which Razor Consulting, Inc is a member, to inform us of a new vulnerability in the parsing of .lnk files, known as Windows Shortcut Files. Symantec coders were on top of it on the 16th.The vulnerability lies in Windows Shell, which is responsible for parsing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passwords and Beyond</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In most organizations, the only method of authentication by which users identify themselves to computer systems is the password. The concept of passwords has been around for decades and, while not perfect, it&#8217;s cheap to establish and easy to support. To gain maximum security you need a company-wide password strategy. In practice this will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Securing your Medical Practice  and Avoiding Law Suits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people assume that the typical cracker rarely ventures onto the premises of the company whose systems he wishes to attack. He prefers instead the anonymity of the internet and the freedom that it gives him to attack targets all over the world regardless of time zones. Consequently, most companies put all their IT security [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://razor-consulting.net/?p=190</link>
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		<title>Why bother with penetration testing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s only one way to discover the true state of your company&#8217;s IT security, and that&#8217;s to try breaking it. It&#8217;s possible to do this yourself using automated software products which try to mimic the behaviour of a typical hacker, and such products will be discussed later in this chapter. But the best way to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://razor-consulting.net/?p=188</link>
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		<title>Security Through Obscurity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Defeating crackers requires many different techniques. You can use encryption to protect confidential files, or user names and passwords to guard a private Web site. To prevent unauthorized copying of document files you can use digital rights management, and to block access to your servers you can install a firewall. But whatever security product, system [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://razor-consulting.net/?p=181</link>
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		<title>Your Information Security Policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every company needs a formal written document which spells out to staff precisely what they are allowed to use the company&#8217;s systems for, what is prohibited, and what will happen to them if they break the rules. This document goes under various names but is most often known as an information security policy or an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cookies Defined</title>
		<description><![CDATA[here are two types of computer cookies: temporary and permanent. Temporary cookies, also called session cookies, are stored temporarily in your browser&#39;s memory and are deleted as soon as you end the session by closing the browser. Permanent cookies, also called persistent cookies, are stored permanently on your computer&#39;s hard drive and, if deleted, will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://razor-consulting.net/?p=176</link>
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		<title>How to back up favorites in IE 8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you must use Internet Explorer, this is how you back up your favorites &#124;Version 8&#124; Instructions Step 1-&#62; On the right hand side of the browser look for the word &#34;Tools.&#34; Click on the arrow on the right hand side of &#34;Tools.&#34; Step 2-&#62; Scrolls down to &#34;Toolbars&#34; and verify that &#34;Menu Bar&#34; has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://razor-consulting.net/?p=159</link>
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		<title>Mcafee DAT 5958 Fix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As many people are already aware, McAfee released DAT 5958 today. This DAT contained a fault, which caused issues in hosts running Windows XP SP3. The fault led to a false detection of the W32/Wecorl.A worm, which was an MS08-067 based worm. This resulted in McAfee nuking svchost.exe killing all win32 services on the machine. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://razor-consulting.net/?p=156</link>
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