Today I’ve released a new Software, called RDPEdit. RDPEdit is used to customize .rdp connection files in a more convenient way than a Microsoft tool or a texteditor does. You can have a look and download here:
The current revision is 0.0.1.1, please note that this is work in progress. Right now, RDPEdit only supports connection files up to RDP 5.2, support for the next RDP version (RDP 6.0, used on Vista and Server 2008) is coming soon.
When using RDP Files, you might have encountered that, when editing by hand, you have to specify the widget-offets for not having annoying scrollbars in the RDP window.
Some time ago, I’ve posted the offsets for the standard Windows XP Theme, now here are some new offsets for Windows Vista standard Theme.
Offsets for Windows Vista
Offsets for Windows XP
If you have some more offsets (for instance the good old Windows 2k Theme), please let me know, thanks!
Today I am attending the third day on the Blackhat Europe 2007 in Amsterdam. This Blackhat is my first one, and all expectations for this event (includes briefings als well as trainings) are satisfied till now. The training I’ve attended was called “Web Application (In) Security” and was held by two trainers of NGS Software Ltd. from London. The course material we got from NGS fas most quite complete, covering the basics from webapplication security to the lastest state-of-the-art attacks for exploiting webapplications. Some things were common for me, based on the fact that I am doing some pentesting for webapplications for my employer, the University of Karlsruhe.
Surprisingly, one of the trainers (Dafydd Stuttard) was the maintainer of burpsuite, a brilliant collection of tools for testing webapplications. burpsuite allows a very convenient way of attacking webappplications in various ways. I am not going into details for now, better check out for yourself - I’ts worth having a look.
The talks today I’ve been in, were quite technical (which I personally like much), and pointed out some interesting ideas and thoughts. Adam Laurie held a talk about the RFID-security (and presented (of course!) some new ways of 0wing a Hotel. Top notch.) was one of the highlights today, as well as the talk from Olli Whitehouse covering GS and ASLR in Windows Vista.
The Blackhat is located in the Moevenpick Hotel in Amsterdam. It is nice, but definitely too far way from the city centre (about 20 Minutes), whereas the “old” Place, the Hotel Krasnapolsky, was located in the middle of Amsterdam. This evening is the party event (sponsored by Microsoft), hope that boozing there won’t be that desastrous ..
After installing the new Outlook 2007, I noticed that there had been some changes the way mails and tasks are tagged and categorized. In previous versions of Outlook it was possible to categorize and mark the different items for follow-up. The main difference I noticed, was the coloured categorization from the beginning. After starting Outlook 2007 the first time, the different tags from the previous versions are merged with the follow-up tagging from Outlook 2003. After having finished the merger, the categories view looks like a rainbow, but the new way items are tagged is very helpful.
A new feature (for me) is the possibility to the items with keyboard shortcuts (STRG-Fn) for faster categorization. This is also helpful if you use am IMAP server containing your email. The normal operation of Outlook 2007 does not allow to tag email items that are stored on an IMAP server: If the menu bar is extended with the categorizer addon, it shows up in a disabled manner. If you have migrated from a Office 2003 installation, you might notice that there are some tagged emails! Using the right-click on the IMAP mails, you can add/remove the different categories to/from the item.
So, if you want to tag IMAP based mail hat does not have a tag, you have to use the keyboard shortcuts: et voilà , it works. Why the categorization using the menu bar does’t work is not reasonable. Maybe this is fixed with the next servicepack .. 
Es hat den Anschein, das der Quellcode von MS-DOS 6.0 über die Google Code Search gefunden worden ist. Hier geht es zum Artikel bei digg.com
Die Serie “IT Crowd” sollte eigentlich jedem aus dem Bereich IT ein Begriff sein. Es gab mal die Folge “Aunt Irma Visits”, in der eine Internetseite über Roy und Moss zu sehen war. Hier ist sie: http://www.ladyproblems.org.uk/.
Nachtrag: Wenn die Einstellungen für die Fenstergrößen bearbeitet werden, sollte bedacht werden, das bei der Größenangabe für das Fenster die Windows-Widgets berücksichtigt werden müssen.
Aus diesem Grund kommen mit den Windows-XP Standardeinstellungen bei der Breite noch einmal 8 pixel hinzu, in der Höhe sind es 34 pixel (obere Fensterleiste!). Ein RDP-Fenster mit der Auflösung 1024 x 768 hat also eine Fenstergröße von 1032 x 802.
Es ist ja mittlerweile nichts ungewöhnliches mehr, wenn Microsoft Programme manchmal nicht das tun, was sie sollen. Oder sich nicht entsprechend verhalten. Dies ist auch bei dem Remote Deskop Client der Fall.
Wenn mehrere RDP Verbindungen verwalten werden sollen, gibt es die Möglichkeit diese zu speichern, um sie mit einen Klick wieder aufrufen zu können. Ärgerlich wird es erst, wenn später Einstellungen an dieser Verbindung gemacht werden, die aber durch erneutes Abspeichern nicht gespeichert werden. Dies betrifft beispielsweise die Parameter der Fenstergröße - es ist einfach nicht möglich einzustellen, dass später eine andere Fenstergröße dauerhaft verwendet werden soll. Es wird immer die Einstellung verwendet, die beim ersten Speichern der Verbindungseinstellungen verwendet worden ist.
Abhilfe schafft hier nur eins: Ein einfacher Texteditor. Damit lassen sich die Verbindungseinstellungen “von Hand” korrigieren.
Microsoft hat dies auch mit einen Artikel in der KB dokumentiert, hier ein Link zu den Parametern: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;885187.