Archive for April 27th, 2010

“Narcissistic Vulnerability Pimps”Is it just my perception or are there a diminishing number of good rants on the Internet?“Admin” on the Verizon Security Blog posted a really great one last week that deserves comment.“Admin” is David Kenne... »

“Finders keepers” isn’t exactly a legal conceptMany bloggers and commentators are making much of the fact that San Mateo police served a search warrant on the home of Gizmodo blogger Jason Chen and confiscated computers, servers and other equipme... »

Make big money! $.80 to $1.20 per 1,000People in China, Bangladesh and China are bidding on jobs solving CAPTCHAS so spammers can create new email accounts, but the work is a bit tedious, according to a story in the New York Times. Many brokers and mid... »

Hi everyone – I’m Carlene Chmaj, new to the Security Response team and here to tell you that the re-release of MS10-025 is available.    Again, this only affects those with Windows 2000 Servers in a non-default configuration with Windows Media Services installed.  All customers with this configurartion are advised to install this re-released update.   Thanks,... »

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/04/26/using-alternate-credentials-with-wmi-and-powershell-take-2-hyper-v.aspx'; Last week I did a post about specifying alternate credentials to use with WMI and PowerShell for controlling Hyper-V.  Well – thanks to some tips and tricks given to me by my readers – here is a new an improved version: # Setup variable for optional commandlet parameters$extraParams = @{} # Setup parameters for... »