What Nobody Ever Told You About Securing SQL Server
Security Monkey post on SQL injection, featuring videos More...

Sending VBS Results To Microsoft Excel
"I decided to adapt some of my Vbs scripts to use excel as the output rather than sending the results to a text file" More...

GHDB - Google Hacking Database
"We call them 'googledorks' (gOO gôl'Dôrk, noun, slang) : An inept or foolish person as revealed by Google". Very useful in pen-testing! More...

Manuallly finding spyware/rootkits
"Root cause of some inexplicable reboots or other strange events on your systems might be a rootkit" More...

ShowSizePE
An Explorer replacement - might be useful as it allows admins to see how your disk space is distributed in various folders and files and also to get a list of files not used in many days. Importantly a Pie Chart display is available! More...

Disable USB drives
"It is easy to lock a machine down, disable the floppy, and cdrom in the bios. Many times when you try to disable USB - it disables it entirely. This can be a real pain on newer laptops or systems that don't even have a PS2 interface for the mouse or keyboard." More...

Free Space in Exchange

A formula for calculating how much space is left before Exchange 2000/2003 (Standard) shuts down. Next step is to script all this and have the results emailed.

Space left before shutdown = MAXDBSIZE - (PRIV1.EDB + PRIV1.STM) + FSDB

Where:
MAXDBSIZE is 16 GB for Exchange Standard version, 75GB for Exchange 2003 SP2
PRIV1.EDB is the physical size of the database file
PRIV1.STM is the physical size of the database file
FSDB is the value listed in the Event ID 1221 for the Private Information Store

Sysprep Admin Passwords
Chris has a good article on this old chestnut. More...

Troubleshooting Windows Firewall
Don has a good article on this at Mcpmag.com More...