August 2007 - Posts

Google blogger attacks?
Interesting article over @ BBC talking about a rash of Google blogger blogs that have been updated to contain links to malicious sites: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6970368.stm I find it interesting that Google blogger is being singled out here Read More...
Posted 31 August 07 10:35 by Robert_Hensing | 1 Comments   
Synthing the Space Shuttle
Live Labs - doing some cool stuff with Photosynth for NASA: http://labs.live.com/Rocket+Science+Synthing+The+Space+Shuttle.aspx Read More...
Posted 06 August 07 10:04 by Robert_Hensing | 0 Comments   
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 a desktop that I use with Vista daily. I've never really sat down to investigate 'hybrid sleep' or what it is or how it works until this weekend (I admit Read More...
Posted 05 August 07 11:12 by Robert_Hensing | 1 Comments   
NBC sends a reporter to DefCon - hilarity ensues
Man I picked a hell of a year NOT to attend BH / Defcon: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=653 http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070804/ts_alt_afp/technologyitsoftwaremediacompanynbc http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/08/03/Undercover-Dateline-NBC-producer-booted-from-Defcon_1.html Read More...
Posted 04 August 07 09:56 by Robert_Hensing | 1 Comments   
Our response to Atsiv . . .
Well that didn't take very long - here's our authoritative response as described by Scott Field - one of my favorite architects (super smart, genuinely nice guy, very helpful): http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsvistasecurity/archive/2007/08/03/x64-driver-signing-update.aspx Read More...
Posted 03 August 07 08:16 by Robert_Hensing | 0 Comments   
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 he writes columns on technology focusing on the real underlying issues and not getting caught up in things that ultimately don't matter or that prevent Read More...
Posted 02 August 07 04:22 by Robert_Hensing | 0 Comments   
Haute Secure
So this is an interesting company making an interesting product: http://hautesecure.com/index.aspx Why do I find it interesting? It's made up (mostly) of former Microsoft, specifically SWI / MSRC types ( http://hautesecure.com/about.aspx ) They've got Read More...
Posted 01 August 07 11:11 by Robert_Hensing | 0 Comments   
New Kernel mode threats
First up we have Atsiv - a signed driver that lets you load un-signed drivers on Vista x64: http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2007/07/driver_signing_on_vista_64bit.html Next we have this interesting blog from Symantec about the Read More...
Posted 01 August 07 12:29 by Robert_Hensing | 0 Comments   
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