Robert Hensing's Blog
Software Security . . . and stuff.
Microsoft and double standards
Well said Joe:...
Author: rhensing Date: 10/31/2007
Wherever you go - there you are! (If you own a Mac with Leopard)
Also a classic line from The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 8th Dimension and also very...
Author: rhensing Date: 10/29/2007
LOLCODE.NET
I give you - the newest CLR language:...
Author: rhensing Date: 10/27/2007
It begins . . . (PDF spam run)
F-Secure is reporting that a PDF spam run has started that exploits the Adobe URI handler...
Author: rhensing Date: 10/26/2007
Microsoft Security Intelligence Report v3
Available now: https://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/sir.aspx
Author: rhensing Date: 10/24/2007
Elcomsoft password cracking - now 25x faster?
Thanks to the parallel processing ower of modern GPUs:...
Author: rhensing Date: 10/24/2007
Getting Microsoft Updates offline . . .
So I just got done reading Larry's article on XP SP3 over here:...
Author: rhensing Date: 10/24/2007
Redhat fixes their 1,000th CVE
We now have several years worth of solid CVE / vuln data that has accrued (both for us and our...
Author: rhensing Date: 10/18/2007
Microsoft now has two open source licenses!
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force...as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and...
Author: rhensing Date: 10/17/2007
Apple to release Vista soon
https://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html#security Looking through the feature set . . . lets...
Author: rhensing Date: 10/16/2007
Unbreakable - good Lord . . .
https://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20071015/tc_pcworld/138431 27 database vulns - 5 of which are remote...
Author: rhensing Date: 10/16/2007
Russian Business Network
I've attended a number of briefings on the RBN in recent months and there is actually quite a lot of...
Author: rhensing Date: 10/14/2007
Yes Virginia, they really are out to get you . . . (Spear phishing for fun and profit)
Not content to let the Chinese dominate the attachment based espionage game . . . it looks like the...
Author: rhensing Date: 10/07/2007
Vista updates
Install these updates:...
Author: rhensing Date: 10/04/2007
Bluehat - favorite quote && H.D., Metasploit and the iPhone
https://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/02/Security-researchers-look-beyond-Vista_1.html Halvar: One...
Author: rhensing Date: 10/03/2007
Another one bites the dust . . .
Bot-herder - indicted:...
Author: rhensing Date: 10/02/2007
Darth Apple and the iPhone?
Interesting blog from my friend Adam Shostack here:...
Author: rhensing Date: 10/02/2007
Halo - the future of gaming?
Okay - this is hilarious in an EPIC 2014 sort of way:https://www.loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/228...
Author: rhensing Date: 10/01/2007
MIT gets their Halo3 fan-boy groove on!
Friggin' awesome M.I.T.!!!! https://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2007/halo3_john_harvard/
Author: rhensing Date: 09/25/2007
Targeted Attacks continue . . .
Gee - I wonder who's behind this? https://www.first.org/newsroom/globalsecurity/153958.html...
Author: rhensing Date: 09/25/2007
MMPC on Storm Worm
MMPC == Microsoft Malware Protection CenterThey blog.They release the MSRT (Malicious Software...
Author: rhensing Date: 09/25/2007
Bill Gates
It's hard being a Microsoft employee. These days it seems that everyone loves to hate us. When I get...
Author: rhensing Date: 09/24/2007
Adobe 0-day . . .
I've talked a lot this year about Office documents that were used in very limited targeted attacks...
Author: rhensing Date: 09/22/2007
The State of the Intertubes (according to Arbor)
Their 3rd annual world-wide report and stuff:...
Author: rhensing Date: 09/21/2007
Uninformed.org
So this web site has quickly become my favorite source of hard-core technical reading material...
Author: rhensing Date: 09/19/2007
Indeed we do . . .
On national 'Talk Like a Pirate' day I think we should all take a moment to reflect on how we...
Author: rhensing Date: 09/19/2007
Office 2003 SP3 RTW's!!!!
If you are running Office 2003, please install service pack 3 NOW. If you are hesitant, I encourage...
Author: rhensing Date: 09/18/2007
Cool shirt - I want one. :)
Ahem. :) https://www.splitreason.com/productdetail.php?id=468
Author: rhensing Date: 09/18/2007
Blue Monster - Change the world or go home!
So I was not aware of the 'Blue Monster' phenomenon within Microsoft or how it even started . . ....
Author: rhensing Date: 09/17/2007
Sweep the leg Johnny!
Man - first the Transformers movie, and now this: https://www.sweeptheleg.com/ Just goes to show...
Author: rhensing Date: 09/13/2007
Hacked by Chinese? (again)
"Hacked by Chinese" - a phrase made popular back in 2001 by the now infamous Code Red worm. For many...
Author: rhensing Date: 09/12/2007
I can feel it coming . . .
Okay - it’s as if someone got inside my head and decided to make a commercial out of what’s playing...
Author: rhensing Date: 09/10/2007
NSA@Home
Okay this is hilarious: https://nsa.unaligned.org/
Author: rhensing Date: 09/06/2007
Mr. Bean - 733t h4x0r!!??
I dunno why I find this so funny - probably because Mr. Bean - well that's just comedy at its finest...
Author: rhensing Date: 09/04/2007
Google blogger attacks?
Interesting article over @ BBC talking about a rash of Google blogger blogs that have been updated...
Author: rhensing Date: 08/31/2007
Synthing the Space Shuttle
Live Labs - doing some cool stuff with Photosynth for NASA:...
Author: rhensing Date: 08/06/2007
Hybrid sleep in Vista and S0 - S5 explained
Okay it's time for another shameless 'wow - Vista rocks' type blog post. :) So I have a notebook and...
Author: rhensing Date: 08/05/2007
NBC sends a reporter to DefCon - hilarity ensues
Man I picked a hell of a year NOT to attend BH / Defcon:...
Author: rhensing Date: 08/04/2007
Our response to Atsiv . . .
Well that didn't take very long - here's our authoritative response as described by Scott Field -...
Author: rhensing Date: 08/03/2007
eWeek article on Atsiv / x64 driver signing
I will admit - I like Larry Seltzer's articles . . . he tends to be more of a 'big picture' guy when...
Author: rhensing Date: 08/02/2007
Haute Secure
So this is an interesting company making an interesting product:...
Author: rhensing Date: 08/01/2007
New Kernel mode threats
First up we have Atsiv - a signed driver that lets you load un-signed drivers on Vista x64:...
Author: rhensing Date: 08/01/2007