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JimAll on Vista
Jim Allchin in his longest blog post to date explains the security trade-off's we had to tackle with...
Author: rhensing Date: 01/25/2007
Vista test drive!!
Update 1/25/2007:Sorry to my overseas readers - it has been pointed out to me by an individual in...
Author: rhensing Date: 01/24/2007
Precognition in Vista
So if you've ever seen the movie Minority Report - you'll know all about precognition.Vista has...
Author: rhensing Date: 01/22/2007
Exposure exposed!
Anyone who has ever debated the whole "Microsoft vs. Linux security" thing needs to read this series...
Author: rhensing Date: 01/19/2007
Apple's up . . .
W00t - they are now at 4.7 - 5.1% of the total PC market in the U.S. depending on who you ask:...
Author: rhensing Date: 01/19/2007
Hak5 produces 120GB LM hash rainbow table - complete charset!!!
So the Hak5 folks have produced complete hash tables for the LM version of the password hash used by...
Author: rhensing Date: 01/16/2007
DoD Battles Spear Phishing
This is a very interesting article: https://www.fcw.com/article97186-12-26-06-Web My favorite part of...
Author: rhensing Date: 12/28/2006
Secunia Software Inspector
Soooo Secunia entered the vulnerability assesment market last week with a free tool they call the...
Author: rhensing Date: 12/14/2006
Microsoft's New Identity - Secure OS Vendor?
Roger Grimes has a great piece here on some of the hundreds of security improvements / tweaks we've...
Author: rhensing Date: 12/12/2006
Random Vista Security Factoid Du Jur
So domain-joined Vista no longer exposes the admin shares by default (i.e. admin$, c$ etc.). My...
Author: rhensing Date: 11/16/2006
Ever found malware hiding in the "Default User" profile on Windows? Ever wonder how it got there or why it was there?
(Edited to fix idiotic bug – I meant to refer to the ‘Default User’ profile on disk not the ‘All...
Author: rhensing Date: 11/15/2006
OSX Deepsight Security Report
So I'm not a HUGE fan of SYMC these days - but I have to give them props for releasing this:...
Author: rhensing Date: 11/15/2006
Web Attacker Toolkit - From Russia with Love
So here's a very interesting blog post I came across recently:...
Author: rhensing Date: 11/14/2006
I'm back (again(again))
So I've decided to try and do the blog thing again . . . I'm just going to post my random, personal...
Author: rhensing Date: 11/09/2006
New security features in VC2005
So this is a pretty nice summary of some of the cool / new features of VC2005 that will hopefully...
Author: rhensing Date: 09/29/2005
So what is it – ya do here? Allow myself to introduce . . . myself (again).
Okay – if you are still subscribed to this feed – then you probably remember me from back in the day...
Author: rhensing Date: 07/14/2005
Robert Hensing’s Incident Response Blog – Reloaded
After nearly 7 years in Product Support Services helping our customers on issues ranging from...
Author: rhensing Date: 03/23/2005
New Rootkit Revealer available!
Sysinternals yesterday released a new version of Rootkit revealer after receiving feedback that...
Author: rhensing Date: 03/23/2005
New weapon in the war - F-Secure reveals Blacklight - an anti-rootkit tool - try it today (remember to rename it )
F-Secure has finally taken the wraps off a new anti-rootkit tool they call Blacklight (I dig the...
Author: rhensing Date: 03/10/2005
Rootkit Revealer vs. Hacker Defender - How the miscreants are defeating Rootkit Revealer and how to fight back
So over the last week we've started to get cases where Rootkit Revealer (having been downloaded by...
Author: rhensing Date: 03/10/2005
Rootkits - revealed!
Well what do you know - that day that I was talking about in my previous post? It was...
Author: rhensing Date: 02/22/2005
Microsoft does 733t speak . . . it's like an SNL skit - only funnier.
So yesterday this hilarious URL probably arrived in your inbox via your own personal friend network...
Author: rhensing Date: 02/18/2005
The MSRC @ RSA - the webspace
Wow - this is really really cool. So . . . select members of the MSRC are off at RSA this week doing...
Author: rhensing Date: 02/17/2005
Windows Server 2003 spanks Red Hat's monkey?
Interesting information from RSA, it's nice to see someone other than me notice the pure creamy...
Author: rhensing Date: 02/17/2005
Introducing Tim 'The tool man' Rains - PSS Security Techlead, fellow blogger, maintainer of WOLFv2
Folks it just occured to me that I haven't formally introduced you to a colleague of mine, Tim...
Author: rhensing Date: 02/07/2005
Anatomy of a WINS server hack (MS04-045) . . .
Okay - so here is my analysis of a recent WINS hack a customer experienced. The customer caught this...
Author: rhensing Date: 01/27/2005
Miscreant hiding techniques: Would the real explorer.exe please stand up? And the relevance of 1979 when doing searches . . .
At long last - a blog post about Incident Response in the self-proclaimed 'Incident Response' blog!...
Author: rhensing Date: 01/10/2005
The future of passwords?
Given what I do, I tend to be pretty interested in technologies that will allow me to do away with...
Author: rhensing Date: 08/23/2004