// Oprogramowanie Roman Ryltsov
Friday evening there was an email from the bank with a document in attached password-protected archive. The new security rules “for our safety” require that bank officers never send potentially sensitive information to outside world without reasonable security measures. Makes sense? At the same time the protection is nothing but a burden to both sender…
One thing is worth special mentioning in connection with previous post on DirectShow Filter Graph Spy on Microsoft Vista system: ATL’s CSecurityDesc class caused to waste some time. CRegKey Key; ATLENSURE_SUCCEEDED(HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(Key.Open(HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, pszKeyName, READ_CONTROL | WRITE_OWNER))); CSecurityDesc AdministratorsOwnerSecurityDescriptor; AdministratorsOwnerSecurityDescriptor.SetOwner(Sids::Admins()); ATLENSURE_SUCCEEDED(HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(Key.SetKeySecurity(OWNER_SECURITY_INFORMATION, &AdministratorsOwnerSecurityDescriptor))); The code compiles fine, but on runtime it gives error 87 (ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER, E_INVALIDARG) in the…
I have been receiving comments that Filter Graph Spy tool does not work with Microsoft Vista operating system. I never had a moment to check until recently, and this time I realized that it really does not work. I am definitely aware of dramatic changes introduced with this operating system, and in particular UAC feature,…
Security Essen 2008 is a global event for securty industry. The website lists exhibitors, but I would rather it is more usable in sense of listing and filtering exhibitors. Luckily, the list is parsed out for a better manipulation: And also a product category filtering: A categorized list of over 1000 exhibitors with addresses and…