Check your system virginity in less than 60 seconds.
Programming, WindowsToday, I wrote a tool called sym32guid which aims at retrieving all stored Program DataBase (*.PDB File) GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) from a physical memory dump. To do why? The first goal was to use use symbols as additional information regarding unexported functions like the über-famous msv1_0!MsvpPasswordValidate, but it looks it can also be used […]
Ooh! Headshot! Linus Torvalds about OpenBSD Team.
WindowsSource: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/706600/
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So as far as I’m concerned, “disclosing” is the fixing of the bug. It’s
> the “look at the source” approach.
Btw, and you may not like this, since you are so focused on security, one
reason I refuse to bother with the whole security circus is that I […]
Capture memory under Win2k3 or Vista with win32dd!
WindowsActually, win32dd is the only 100% open-source tool to capture memory under Win2k3 or Vista. Even, if ManTech released a similar tool yesterday, but some part of the source code (e.g. driver source code) are missing. Then, I decide to release mine as a full open-source project under GPL3 license.
The main difference between ManTech tool […]
BlackHat Las Vegas Briefing 2008
WindowsIn November 2007, Nicolas and I presented “Enter SandMan” in Tokyo at PacSec during its development phase. You can get the materials we used for this lecture here in English and here in Japanese.
Some months later, an alpha version formally called 1.0.080226, of Sandman Framework has been released as an open source project. — […]
Google Summer of Code & NT debugging Puzzler #3
WindowsAs you probably know, Google launch every year the Summer of Code. Yesterday, Google published official 2008 result and I’ll be part of the Samba Team. My work is to implement compression functions into Samba.
Microsoft Advanced Windows Debugging Team published their third puzzler: Matrix Edition #3 . It looks they’ll publish one puzzler per week. […]