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Welcome to Jesper Johansson's blog. This is my home for pontification on the web. In case this is your first time here, I have been working on information security for about 20 years, and have been writing and speaking on the topic for about 10. I am also a Microsoft MVP in Windows Security.
My most recent book is the Windows Server 2008 Security Resource Kit . Because I am also a scuba instructor you may find some posts related to that topic as well. Just because it took me so long to get it, I also like to say that I have a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Minnesota.

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Hey, Mozilla: Quotes Are Not Legal in a URL: When I was a child, I learned a saying that I still find important to keep in mind: Those who are sitting in a glass house shall not throw stones The good folks at Mozilla may want to look up what that really means. Two days ago, Mozilla published Firefox...
Posted 20 July 2007 10:25 PM by jesper | 35 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Security, Security Pontification, Security, Windows Vista

At Least This Snake Oil Is Free: Snake oil , for those that are not familiar with the U.S. English vernacular, is a derogatory term for some product that makes unverifiable or exaggerated claims. True to the tradition, we now find " Vista Firewall Control ," complete with a...
Posted 19 July 2007 09:33 PM by jesper | 2 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Security, Security Pontification, Windows Vista

Blocking the Firefox -> IE 0-day: Thor Larholm, unhelpfully, published details on what he claims is a 0-day exploit for Internet Explorer (IE) yesterday. This exploit is actually for Firefox, but Thor exploited it by making IE launch Firefox. Firefox creates three protocol handlers. A...
Posted 10 July 2007 08:55 AM by jesper | 26 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Security, Security Pontification, Security

Security Vendors: Microsoft is making Vista Too Secure: McAfee today joined Symantec in complaining about Microsoft making Windows Vista too secure, making it difficult for them to rootkit the OS to do their security voodoo. The arguments are centered on two main complaints, which I will attempt to translate...
Posted 04 October 2006 12:24 PM by jesper | 17 comment(s)
Filed under: Windows Security, Security Pontification, Windows Vista

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