hacking iis and iis security

A paper on IIS 6.0 security. IIS 6.0 is much more secure out-of-the-box than II5, which means the challenge comes in opening 6.0 up enough to make it work (whereas 5.0 needs closed down enough to be secure). This is easier said than done when unfamiliar with what is actually needing to be opened up…

Want to know how to Hack IIS? Then read the Hacking IIS Tutorial. I have not read this yet, but it looks pretty useful and thorough.

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stop hot-linking of images

Here is a forum post describing how to stop hot-linking of images from your website by others, including a means to create a public folder that can be hot-linked from. Pretty useful, and not something that I configure every day, or even every month, but not a tidbit I really want to lose after 12 months either.

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