Microsoft Tightens Windows Server 2003 Security
Microsoft Corp. has made available for download the first release candidate of a major security update to Windows Server 2003.
The 316MB download contains many of the changes that Windows XP Service Pack 2 brought to that operating system against buffer overflows and other common attacks, including specific support for "no execute" processors.
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It also adds a new Security Configuration Wizard, which uses a role-based approach to remove unnecessary services, diminishing "the attack surface." The wizard asks a series of questions about the tasks performed by the server and disables services unnecessary to those roles. The wizard is not installed by default.
