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Category Archives: microsoft
Microsoft & UEFI Secure Boot
A technical solution has finally been proposed to avoid locking out Linux and other OS vendors from UEFI shipped motherboards. A couple of months ago Microsoft made waves by announcing their Windows 8 support for UEFI. Open source supports took … Continue reading
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Microsoft: Sex, Lies……and cybercrime?
Microsoft also recently released an eye catching paper aptly named that discusses the validity of security reports. Far from being broadly-based estimates of losses across the population, the cyber-crime estimates that we have appear to be largely the answers of … Continue reading
Latest Microsoft Security Report
Microsoft’s Security Intelligent Report (SIR) v10 has been released and can be found here. The key highlights from Microsoft’s own Roger Halbheer: Industry vulnerability disclosure trends continue an overall trend of moderate declines since 2006. This trend is likely because … Continue reading
Microsoft’s DEP, ASLR: Can’t have one without the other…
There’s an interesting series on the Microsoft Security Research & Defense blog covering ASLR and DEP memory protections found in Windows XP SP3+. DEP effectiveness (without ASLR) Summary: DEP breaks exploitation techniques that attackers have traditionally relied upon, but DEP … Continue reading
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win32 memory capture & analysis cheat sheet
A high level overview to perform live memory captures and analysis: capture memory via moonsol’s win32dd parse memory snapshot with mandiant’s memoryze analyze results via audit viewer or analyze using the volatility framework — neatly packaged in SAN’S Sift Workstation
Windows Anti Forensics Tip of the Day…
I previously wrote about how to have your system automatically clear the pagefile before a reboot or shutdown. There’s a couple other steps I recommend you make on your system… Automatically permanently delete (Nuke on Delete)- Normally Delete sends files … Continue reading
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Jailbreak: Export non-exportable Windows certificates
I came across a handy (& free) Windows utility that allows you to export “non exportable” certificates. Do you want to get at those recovery certificates or private keys? Jailbreak can be snatched here: https://www.isecpartners.com/jailbreak.html
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Setting up Windows Honey Pot Shares
I recently setup a honeypot share on a Windows server. I put some very “interesting” files and directories in there (financial information, PII etc) and then enabled audit logging in Windows. There’s a very powerful but mostly unknown Windows tool … Continue reading
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Microsoft’s google killer: Bing
Now that Microsoft’s Bing has been out for a couple weeks I’m wondering everyone’s impression. I like the simple interface with minimal ad’s and clutter. Nothing like the MSN search. It looks awfully similar to Google’s interface. However, I’m very … Continue reading
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