Robert Hensing's Blog
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/robert_hensing
Software Security . . . and stuff.
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- 209 from 23 Aug 2004 to 2 Nov 2008
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2008 91
- This week's Fail Open Goat Award goes to - Credit Card Processing
- Microsoft SideSight?
- SmoothHD
- Mass SQL Injection : The Chinese Way
- Out of band security update planned for today (MS08-067)
- Flash 10 & IE8b2 Per Site ActiveX
- Flash 10 is out - install it like . . . yesterday.
- MAPP + Exploitability Index == Protected Customers, Better Security Update Prioritization
- Shostack on "Threat Modeling"
- iPhone running WM 6.1?
- I'm a PC and I fight for the users . . .
- Extreme Ad Makeover - We are now entering "the 2nd phase"?
- Zune 3.0 - Using wifi to download songs right from the ZMP (speed test)
- GOVCERT.NL and German authorities recommend against installing Chrome!?
- Why I'm not running Chrome anymore (back to IE8 beta 2 for me)
- It begins . . .
- On Chromium and Practical Windows Sandboxing
- Google Chrome coming today? Launch early and iterate? srsly?
- The truth about the Dowd / Sotirov Vista memory protection bypass stuff
- Happy Patch Tuesday - Random thoughts
- VMWare Fail Closed Goat Award
- OpenID Fail Open Goat Award
- Today's Fail Open Goat Award goes to: Insecure 3rd party software updaters
- 2% of a big number, is a big number
- Microsoft Mojave
- Antivirus fail . . .
- DNS Fail Open Goat Award
- Pwnie Awards - Vista nominated for . . .
- Dan's DNS checker - We need a new ship!
- Chris Rohlf joins Matasano
- Memory dumpers for Windows
- Adobe Acrobat 9 - Creamy Security Goodness (on Vista / WS2008)
- Dino secretly wants Apple to release 64bit Vista
- Today's FOGA goes to Google for (implicitly) admitting they have a problem (via stopbadware.org)
- SQL injection is teh suck . . .
- Security 'silly season' has officially begun . . .
- Microsoft Blogs and Web Resources about Security
- More FireFox 3.0 entertainment (Fail Open Goat Award)
- USA Today writes an article about FF 3.0 - hilarity ensues . . .
- Our comically un-creative product naming continues . . .
- Freeware un-delete software pwns fancy schmancy 1024 bit encrypting malware?
- Security Bonuses for Vista programmers
- Mama always had a way of explainin' things so I could understand . . .
- Client side cross domain security whitepaper
- ISV best practices, Corrupted Heap Termination, the pursuit of (security) happiness . . .
- IE vs. Firephox? Don't count out Opera . . .
- A new way to get your favorite tools
- Windows Desktop Search: Now with less suck!
- Adobe PDF exploit generator and targeted attack info
- Static analysis paper
- Adobe (non)0-day
- Dear China, I can haz power now plz? okthxbai
- SensePost blog on arbitrary file downloads in a Juniper AX
- Safari "carpet bombing" Fail Open Goat Award
- Live.com video search!
- Gmail - Fail Open Goat Award
- Security news feed
- Mah Bluehat blogz - let me show you them!
- PayPal throws down . . .
- Flash NULL pointer + offset code execution . . .
- Hyper-V
- Espionage using Office documents in the news
- IE8 - DEP enabled by default?
- I feel dirty . . .
- Get Kraken!
- Apple opting into /GS, DEP and ASLR?
- Yet another product with 360 in the name . . .
- On Vista, OSX and security researchers
- CanSecWest Day 3 - PWN2OWN update - Vista pwnd
- And the Mac falls within 10 minutes on day 2.
- CanSecWest - Day 2 Part 1
- Well done Apple - Safari 0wns!
- Apple offering free attack surface increase to Windows users.
- The web is broken . . .
- Mass SQL injection coming to an IIS + ASP server near you . . .
- I'm closing out CanSecWest 2008?
- Walmart drops Linux PCs from stores
- From China with love . . .
- Jonathan Morrison's kernel blog & LOST
- Hypervisor based rootkit detection?
- The fragility of the Internets - as demonstrated by Pakistan / Youtube
- Practical application of the concept behind photon sails / laser elevators
- Cold boot attacks on encryption keys
- SWI Defense in the news
- Asus / Apple / Wii pwnage & The press starts to wonder if maybe it's time to consider 3rd party apps dangerous?
- SecureWorks / Team Cymru solve the mystery of the Mega-D Trojan
- New measure of code quality
- The Stig
- Massive Linux / Apache hacks spewing forth browser based malware
- GMER discovers a new MBR based rootkit in the wild . . .
- Bill's last day . . .
2007 96
- OSX vs. Vista security
- Notable changes in Vista SP1
- Pwning Second Life users via QuickTime
- Fly with the Blue Angels?
- CNet 3 part series on Securing Microsoft (complete list of articles)
- Patches . . .
- How your CxO will get owned next year . . .
- The Firefox security myth . . . busted.
- CNet 3-part series on securing Microsoft.
- How your mom will get owned next year . . .
- Geekonomics?
- Is your Mac laughing at you?
- Cisco Telepresence Magic
- The second coming of Zune . . .
- Overclocking the new 45nm Intel chips to 4Ghz?
- Hushmail - not so quiet after all!
- Click-through cloaking (coming to a hacked site near you).
- Apple patches 7 more QuickTime vulns . . .
- Happy Birthday Vista!!!
- US-CERT weekly vulnerability summary, Vista, the meaning of life . . .
- Taiwan vs. China (he said / she said?)
- I make it me?
- Microsoft and double standards
- Wherever you go - there you are! (If you own a Mac with Leopard)
- LOLCODE.NET
- It begins . . . (PDF spam run)
- Microsoft Security Intelligence Report v3
- Elcomsoft password cracking - now 25x faster?
- Getting Microsoft Updates offline . . .
- Redhat fixes their 1,000th CVE
- Microsoft now has two open source licenses!
- Apple to release Vista soon
- Unbreakable - good Lord . . .
- Russian Business Network
- Yes Virginia, they really are out to get you . . . (Spear phishing for fun and profit)
- Vista updates
- Bluehat - favorite quote && H.D., Metasploit and the iPhone
- Another one bites the dust . . .
- Darth Apple and the iPhone?
- Halo - the future of gaming?
- MIT gets their Halo3 fan-boy groove on!
- Targeted Attacks continue . . .
- MMPC on Storm Worm
- Bill Gates
- Adobe 0-day . . .
- The State of the Intertubes (according to Arbor)
- Uninformed.org
- Indeed we do . . .
- Office 2003 SP3 RTW's!!!!
- Cool shirt - I want one. :)
- Blue Monster - Change the world or go home!
- Sweep the leg Johnny!
- Hacked by Chinese? (again)
- I can feel it coming . . .
- NSA@Home
- Mr. Bean - 733t h4x0r!!??
- Google blogger attacks?
- Synthing the Space Shuttle
- Hybrid sleep in Vista and S0 - S5 explained
- NBC sends a reporter to DefCon - hilarity ensues
- Our response to Atsiv . . .
- eWeek article on Atsiv / x64 driver signing
- Haute Secure
- New Kernel mode threats
- Flash and true irony
- Microsoft.com seem faster to you lately? :)
- Hacking Vista - eEye style
- TechReady 5 drama . . .
- PC World reads me?
- JRE pwnage
- Iowned
- Glass houses . . .
- Strange DLLHost crashes on Vista
- Sytem (Code) Integrity audit logging
- ARP spoofing for fun and profit
- I'm in ur security conference stealin' all your bandwidths . . .
- DON'T install the Safari for Windows beta (unless you LIKE getting 0wn3d)
- Linux car finishes dead last at Indy 500
- Google - Evil - OpenDNS
- Microsoft Update suckage
- Random articles - 3rd party apps and Google advertising social experiments
- "Free Public WiFi" worm?
- 2007 FIRST conferrence featured at the FIA GT race at Silverstone 5/6/2007
- 2007 FIRST conference
- VBootkit vs. Bitlocker in TPM mode
- ANI vuln - Please enable DEP on IE7 on Vista yesterday.
- Vista @ 90 days . . .
- Vista security portal
- Wanted: Security Czar
- The great UAC debacle
- JimAll on Vista
- Vista test drive!!
- Precognition in Vista
- Exposure exposed!
- Apple's up . . .
- Hak5 produces 120GB LM hash rainbow table - complete charset!!!
2006 8
- DoD Battles Spear Phishing
- Secunia Software Inspector
- Microsoft's New Identity - Secure OS Vendor?
- Random Vista Security Factoid Du Jur
- Ever found malware hiding in the "Default User" profile on Windows? Ever wonder how it got there or why it was there?
- OSX Deepsight Security Report
- Web Attacker Toolkit - From Russia with Love
- I'm back (again(again))
2005 13
- New security features in VC2005
- So what is it – ya do here? Allow myself to introduce . . . myself (again).
- Robert Hensing’s Incident Response Blog – Reloaded
- New Rootkit Revealer available!
- New weapon in the war - F-Secure reveals Blacklight - an anti-rootkit tool - try it today (remember to rename it <G>)
- Rootkit Revealer vs. Hacker Defender - How the miscreants are defeating Rootkit Revealer and how to fight back
- Rootkits - revealed!
- Microsoft does 733t speak . . . it's like an SNL skit - only funnier.
- The MSRC @ RSA - the webspace
- Windows Server 2003 spanks Red Hat's monkey?
- Introducing Tim 'The tool man' Rains - PSS Security Techlead, fellow blogger, maintainer of WOLFv2
- Anatomy of a WINS server hack (MS04-045) . . .
- Miscreant hiding techniques: Would the real explorer.exe please stand up? And the relevance of 1979 when doing searches . . .