February 2005 - Posts

Rootkits - revealed!
Well what do you know - that day that I was talking about in my previous post? It was today: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/rootkitreveal.shtml Make sure you check out the MSR site in the coming days / weeks (hoping that by saying it like Read More...
Posted 22 February 05 05:34 by Robert_Hensing | 1 Comments   
Wormbotdoorkit? Kitbotwormdoor? Trojwormrootbot? Malware by any other name . . . 2005 - the year of the rootkit?
Edited 2/25/2005 to examine the multiple definitions of the word 'rootkit', added information on a LUA-friendly rootkit for the LUA folks to ponder (LUA - Limitted User Account), and added some thoughts on how they could mess with AV software. :) So this Read More...
Posted 22 February 05 05:24 by Robert_Hensing | 17 Comments   
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 - and if it didn't, allow me to share it with you now (it's almost as entertaining as the Star Wars Kid ): http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx Read More...
Posted 18 February 05 10:22 by Robert_Hensing | 11 Comments   
The MSRC @ RSA - the webspace
Wow - this is really really cool. So . . . select members of the MSRC are off at RSA this week doing BOOTH duty and talking to our customers and then blogging about the days events in an MSN web space - check it out! http://spaces.msn.com/members/msrc/PersonalSpace.aspx Read More...
Posted 17 February 05 05:27 by Robert_Hensing | 4 Comments   
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 goodness of WS2003 for once (I've noticed it from the incident response side of things by noting a marked absence of WS2003 hacking cases over the last 2 years Read More...
Posted 17 February 05 01:46 by Robert_Hensing | 32 Comments   
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 Rains. Tim Rains is also a tech-lead on the PSS Security team and is an avid C++ coder (un-like me who despises the language). In fact Tim has a long and distinguished Read More...
Posted 07 February 05 12:16 by Robert_Hensing | 10 Comments   

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