Monday, February 28, 2005

THE best smiley in the Universe?

Fantastic...

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050213.html

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Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Sysinternals noticed Rootkits VERY effectively too!

Wayyy... the pros are on the case!

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/rootkitreveal.shtml

Cool!

MS seems to also be doing more... to!

http://research.microsoft.com/spyware
OR
http://research.microsoft.com/rootkit



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Thursday, February 17, 2005

__finally!!! MS notices Rootkits..

Well the MS research guys have for a while now, look at their Ghostbuster tool...

http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/02/17/HNrootkits_1.html

But these little blighters are REALLY dangerous, now the fun and games will begin in earnest I think.

Well bye, bye, SHA1

Or so it seems... http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.html

Well all is not lost, but a lot of re-thinking is needed.

Roll on quantum computing...

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Monday, February 07, 2005

NT Rootkits in commercial software?

Well, it has been a long time since I last wrote anything here... we had a new addition to the family, and I am still trying to catch up on my sleep deficit. Caffeine has replaced alcohol in my blood...

Rootkits, very scary stuff... http://www.rootkit.com

then I read this http://www.securitypipeline.com/59301341

I thought crikey!!! that sounds familiar.

Anyway gotta get another coffee...