Robert Hensing's Blog
Software Security . . . and stuff.
Flash and true irony
Yeah this is old - but I just love the true irony of warning people about the dangers of the...
Author: rhensing Date: 07/29/2007
Microsoft.com seem faster to you lately? :)
I was at TechReady last week and one of the sessions I attended was from some folks who run...
Author: rhensing Date: 07/29/2007
Hacking Vista - eEye style
So this video has been out for a few months now but it's making the rounds so I thought I'd give my...
Author: rhensing Date: 07/29/2007
TechReady 5 drama . . .
UPDATE 7/29/2007: Whatever. Stupid notebook. Stupid Heisenbugs. Sooooo on Friday at the conferrence...
Author: rhensing Date: 07/27/2007
PC World reads me?
I was in the Charlotte airport this morning checking email when I got a note from a friend informing...
Author: rhensing Date: 07/25/2007
JRE pwnage
So this is a great write-up by Symantec on the rise in not only vulnerabilities but active...
Author: rhensing Date: 07/23/2007
iOwned
Interesting article in the NY Times today about a company that has found a vulnerability in the...
Author: rhensing Date: 07/23/2007
Glass houses . . .
UPDATE: 7/24/2007Well it looks like Jesper's blog prompted Mozilla to eat some serious crow as they...
Author: rhensing Date: 07/22/2007
Strange DLLHost crashes on Vista
EDITED: 7/22/2007I have traced the problem to Urge . . . I buy music from MTV Urge and it installs...
Author: rhensing Date: 07/09/2007
Sytem (Code) Integrity audit logging
To enable logging to the security event log of code integrity related events type this from an...
Author: rhensing Date: 07/04/2007
ARP spoofing for fun and profit
So we all know ARP poisoning / spoofing is really easy to do and it's not a new concept at all . . ....
Author: rhensing Date: 06/29/2007
I'm in ur security conference stealin' all your bandwidths . . .
So we have free wifi in the hotel . . . and it's surprisingly stable and fast. I have shows...
Author: rhensing Date: 06/19/2007
DON'T install the Safari for Windows beta (unless you LIKE getting 0wn3d)
Yes Apple's developers are so much better at secure coding than ours!...
Author: rhensing Date: 06/12/2007
Linux car finishes dead last at Indy 500
Life imitating art - truly a classic outcome for the whole Linux sponsored race...
Author: rhensing Date: 05/29/2007
Google - Evil - OpenDNS
Looks like I'm not the only one noticing that Google is increasingly becoming more evil as days go...
Author: rhensing Date: 05/24/2007
Microsoft Update suckage
So anyone who regularly checks Microsoft Update with Office installed has been living in pain for...
Author: rhensing Date: 05/22/2007
Random articles - 3rd party apps and Google advertising social experiments
First up we have a report from Secunia that sort of states what I've always strongly suspected -...
Author: rhensing Date: 05/21/2007
"Free Public WiFi" worm?
So over the last few months I've noticed a disturbing trend. EVERY airport I'm in (which is nostly...
Author: rhensing Date: 05/06/2007
2007 FIRST conferrence featured at the FIA GT race at Silverstone 5/6/2007
This weekend, fellow racing enthusiast and driver Terry Pudwell has agreed to display the 2007 FIRST...
Author: rhensing Date: 05/02/2007
2007 FIRST conference
Updated 4/21/2007 to clarify attendance stuff. I wanted to take a second to clarify some things...
Author: rhensing Date: 04/20/2007
VBootkit vs. Bitlocker in TPM mode
So at HITB in Dubai this week - some researchers announced a proof of concept 'bootkit' for Vista. A...
Author: rhensing Date: 04/05/2007
ANI vuln - Please enable DEP on IE7 on Vista yesterday.
Just a quick blog post this morning regarding the ANI vuln and some thoughts on mitigations built-in...
Author: rhensing Date: 04/02/2007
Vista @ 90 days . . .
Author: rhensing Date: 03/22/2007
Vista security portal
No not from us - but from...
Author: rhensing Date: 03/01/2007
Wanted: Security Czar
No - not for us - for...
Author: rhensing Date: 02/22/2007
The great UAC debacle
So Ollie over at Symantec has done a good job in this blog post summarizing some of the scrutiny...
Author: rhensing Date: 02/22/2007