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Limiting Tor access with ISA 2004/2006

If you have looked into "The onion ring", or just "Tor", you have probably wondered if it would be wise to block access from these anonymous servers (or maybe just the exit nodes). I am not gonna talk about how the encrypted Tor network works, as a great deal of info can be found "out there". Main source should be: www.torproject.org - and perhaps WikiPedia.

As a security guy (or ISA administrator maybe), you ask yourself "why do these people want to be anonymous"? In this case "anonymous" means that "they" don’t want targets on the Internet to see the originating IP address (the source). A "target" is typically a web site or some other web service.

The answer? Well, first you gotta ask yourself: "who are they"? And there’s really no good answer to that question I guess - who really knows? All we can do is guess, so let me turn these questions around: if I were to try out a hack, or some new exploit, would I do it directly over my personal WAN IP? Or would I try to "hide" my originating IP? If you look at it in that

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Written by Jakob H. Heidelberg on January 30th, 2008 with no comments.
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Starter GPO’s - what are they?

With Windows Server 2008 (Codename Longhorn) you will notice a new container called “Starter GPOs” inside the GPMC (version 2.0 - BTW this version will also be available as a separate download for Windows Vista with SP1).

This new container can hold what I would call “templates” for creating new GPO’s - with the limitation that only Administrative Template settings are available. When creating new GPO’s you can choose to use a Starter GPO as the source (read: template) - which makes it easy and fast to create multiple GPO’s with the same baseline configuration.

But, the very cool thing is that you can now “export” those GPO templates (Starter GPO’s) to a Cabinet file (.CAB) and then import into another environment - completely independent of the source domain/forest! So, you can create the PERFECT Starter GPO and then bring it around the world, share it on the Internet (if legal?), deploy it on all systems you can get a hold on etc. etc.

When you ‘enable’ Starter GPO’s in the domain for the first time, a folder called “StarterGPOs” is created inside the SYSVOL folder (\\domain.com\SYSVOL\domain.com\StarterGPOs) - this is where all the “magic” is done… For

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Written by Jakob H. Heidelberg on October 1st, 2007 with no comments.
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Windows Script 5.7 released!

Microsoft just gave us an updated version of the Windows Script engine that we all love so much… This version brings very few additions, but great many fixes.

From release notes:
This release of Windows Script brings the improvements in scripting made during the Vista development cycle to downlevel platforms. During any release cycle we test with increasingly effective analysis tools designed to expose stability problems, memory leaks, and potential security weaknesses in code. The results from this testing comprise the vast majority of changes. Of course, we also include all the current security updates. This is the fastest, most robust, and secure release of Windows Script available.

Why Version 5.7?
The primary reason for changing the version number from 5.6 to 5.7 is to simplify servicing and support by synchronizing the versioning to a consistent scheme based on Vista build number. The minor version increase does not indicate significant new features. The scripting feature set is substantially the same as 5.6, with only minor additions.

Whatâ€™s New
In addition to the general improvements noted above, the following are some of the notable changes in this release.

JScript
â€¢ This package includes the improved garbage collector (GC) shipped

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Written by Jakob H. Heidelberg on September 2nd, 2007 with no comments.
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