November 2006 - Posts

Random Vista Security Factoid Du Jur
So domain-joined Vista no longer exposes the admin shares by default (i.e. admin$, c$ etc.). My take: This is going to break tons of applications (systems management apps, patch deployment apps etc.) that rely on their existance and it will likely be Read More...
Posted 16 November 06 09:20 by Robert_Hensing | 1 Comments   
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 Users’ profile! I blame Vista.) (Edited again to make the hyperlinks a more viewable color and to fix some font size issues with the shellcode that happened Read More...
Posted 15 November 06 04:16 by Robert_Hensing | 2 Comments   
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: http://downloads.securityfocus.com/downloads/MacOSX_DeepSight_Report.pdf It's a great look at the state of OSX today . . . it starts off by showing graphically Read More...
Posted 15 November 06 11:49 by Robert_Hensing | 0 Comments   
Will we ever see a Microsoft Zunix?
So we've launched the Zune. Yea us. I personally won't be buying one - I'm sorta . . . bummed (to be polite) that it won't play my extensive collection of MSN & Urge Plays4sure music and I'm too lazy to burn it all to CD and rip it back to WMA sans Read More...
Posted 15 November 06 08:54 by Robert_Hensing | 0 Comments   
Web Attacker Toolkit - From Russia with Love
So here's a very interesting blog post I came across recently: http://www.websense.com/securitylabs/blog/blog.php?BlogID=94 It details the workings of an automated browser exploit toolkit that is sold by some Russians. That's not surprising because Russians Read More...
Posted 14 November 06 09:58 by Robert_Hensing | 3 Comments   
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 thoughts on topics that interest me. Since security interests me - I'll still probably have a lot to say on this area. I turned on comments again as well Read More...
Posted 09 November 06 03:31 by Robert_Hensing | 0 Comments   

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