The questions have started rolling in : how to stop the recent vulnerability discovered in Windows applications termed “Windows DLL hijaking”. This is quite a serious exploit, considering the ease of use of the tools already written to exploit this, and the huge number of applications found to be vulnerable. Add to that the difficulty … Continue reading First line windows DLL hijacking mitigation
IIS HTTP compression w/ gzip wasn’t working
I had followed the rather simple commands as per the microsoft KB article here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/502ef631-3695-4616-b268-cbe7cf1351ce.mspx?mfr=true The server was still not compressing anything and the temporary compression directory remained empty. This was really frustrating, until I ran across this article: http://panvega.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/http-compression-in-iis/ There is an extra step that technet seems to have forgotten. The above site nails … Continue reading IIS HTTP compression w/ gzip wasn’t working
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