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IT toolbox: Scripts for streamlining VMware ESX

2008-04-14 11:54:17 by Hannah L. Drake in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
VMware ESX can be customized by executing scripts. Learn to control availability and system transparency, and how to use the VI3 SDK to write your own scripts with this tip
 
Tags: vmware esx, scripts, control availability, vi3 sdk, system transparency, tip
 
 
 
 
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Understanding remote scripting: Managing Windows networks using scripts, Part 9

2008-05-28 00:00:00 by Mitch Tulloch in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
...scripts -- but sometimes we hit a wall when we do this. Learning the fundamentals can often help us avoid the wall. In this tip from his series on managing Windows networks using scripts, Mitch Tulloch describes the fundamentals of remote scripting, focusing on the process of connecting to the remote computer and then running the script
 
Tags: windows networks, remote, scripts, remote computer, mitch tulloch describes, wall, fundamentals, script, avoid
 
 
 
 
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Matt Asay again shows that he doesn't know much about open source security

2008-05-15 22:43:17 by HASH0x8b563c4 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...scripts which run in Nessus, which are likewise no longer and some say never were open sourced. I know Ron Gula pretty well and understand perfectly why Nessus is no longer under a GPL license for a few years now. I also understand the economics and reasons why they would charge for their NASL feed. I think it is good business and more power...
 
Tags: matt, matt asay, matt sticks, matt talks, comments matt leaves, source, reason matt, scripts, word scripts
 
 
 
 
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Enabling hierarchical nant builds

2008-03-07 05:49:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
...scripts are run with tasks, and they see those properties. But if I want to drill down into the tree and run one of the build scripts lower down, suddenly there's problems because it depends on properties that are only defined in the root script. I really like being able to run builds from anywhere in the tree for perf - if I'm trying to fix...
 
Tags: nant, root script defines, script, root, task, simple nant task, root nant project, return path, return
 
 
 
 
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Enabling hierarchical nant builds

2008-03-07 12:49:00 by keith-brown in Security Briefs
 
...scripts are run with tasks, and they see those properties. But if I want to drill down into the tree and run one of the build scripts lower down, suddenly there's problems because it depends on properties that are only defined in the root script. I really like being able to run builds from anywhere in the tree for perf - if I'm trying to fix...
 
Tags: nant, root script defines, script, root, task, simple nant task, root nant project, return path, return
 
 
 
 
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Enabling hierarchical nant builds

2008-03-07 12:49:00 by keith-brown in Security Briefs
 
...scripts are run with tasks, and they see those properties. But if I want to drill down into the tree and run one of the build scripts lower down, suddenly there's problems because it depends on properties that are only defined in the root script. I really like being able to run builds from anywhere in the tree for perf - if I'm trying to fix...
 
Tags: nant, root script defines, script, root, task, simple nant task, root nant project, return path, return
 
 
 
 
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Automating web application security testing

2007-07-16 11:40:00 by Panayiotis Mavrommatis in Google Online Security Blog
 
...scripts to perform unauthorized actions in the context of the victim's web session. Any web application that serves documents that include data from untrusted sources could be vulnerable to XSS if the untrusted data is not appropriately sanitized. A web application that is vulnerable to XSS can be exploited in two major ways Stored XSS -...
 
Tags: web application, application, input, input parameters, accepts user input, xss, xss vulnerabilities, security, security team check
 
 
 
 
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The Zeus Crimeware Kit Vulnerable to Remotely Exploitable Flaw

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2008-06-18 17:45:15 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...scripts (web shells and backdoors) from the directory in which it stores the stolen data. Ironically, "Zeus users are advised to take care of their directory permissions, and forbid the execution of scripts from the folder holding all the encrypted stolen information The implications of this flaw are huge, since, what used to be the practice...
 
Tags: zeus, russian business network, crimeware kit, zeus users, vulnerability, vulnerability research, kit, security community, security community starts
 
 
 
 
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Planning for Failure

2007-12-02 11:27:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
...scripts in place that will reinstall your web applications as soon as the sysadmin plugs in a new box with a fresh, blank, patched OS I happen to be using PowerShell to build some of this out for Pluralsight, and hey, like most of us, I'm still learning it
 
Tags: security feature, disaster recovery plan, security, web applications, web server, sysadmin plugs, machine, scenario, hey