Andy Warren points to a TechNet article about Security by Obscurity and wanted me to post some notes. Let's start with the example they used. Rename the Administrator account: I agree with Roger's take. We intentionally rename the administrator...
I have a CTP of SSRS 2008 deployed to one of my servers. Today I built a couple of reports and from one of my systems, they all tested fine. However, this system, because it is a testing server, doesn't receive the Group Policy Object (GPO) controlling...
The recent slate of attacks on IIS servers don't seem to be an attack directly against IIS or against SQL Server itself. In other words, they aren't going after vulnerabilities in the server product (either one). Rather, the attacks are targeting...