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

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