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Stories · 5
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Windows' Patchguard Hinders Security Vendors
eldavojohn writes "Windows' PatchGuard seems to be upsetting third party security vendors such as Symantec, Sana Security and Agnitum. It sounds like the 'black hats' will be able to bypass this security feature (which will be in all copies of Vista) but force security software companies to give up developing software for Windows. From the article: 'PatchGuard will make it harder for third parties, particularly host intrusion-prevention software, to function in Vista,' said Yankee Group analyst Andrew Jaquith. 'Third parties have two choices: continue to petition Microsoft to create an approved kernel-hooking interface so products like theirs can work, or use "black hat" techniques to bypass the restrictions.' Apparently, using these techniques is not a difficult trick." -
Tunneling Shellcode with ActiveX
hdm writes "In the first issue of the Uninformed Journal, skape describes a method for using ActiveX as a transport mechanism for shellcode. The implementation, dubbed 'PassiveX', can be used to tunnel an interactive command shell or full VNC session over the HTTP protocol. PassiveX takes advantage of the Internet Explorer settings to pass through web proxies and escape restrictive outbound firewalls." -
Tunneling Shellcode with ActiveX
hdm writes "In the first issue of the Uninformed Journal, skape describes a method for using ActiveX as a transport mechanism for shellcode. The implementation, dubbed 'PassiveX', can be used to tunnel an interactive command shell or full VNC session over the HTTP protocol. PassiveX takes advantage of the Internet Explorer settings to pass through web proxies and escape restrictive outbound firewalls." -
Reverse Engineering MineSweeper
hdm writes "The first edition of the Uninformed Journal introduces reverse engineering by ripping apart the MineSweeper game included with Windows XP. This paper covers the basics of the Windows Debugger and steps through the entire reverse engineering and cheat code development process." -
Reverse Engineering MineSweeper
hdm writes "The first edition of the Uninformed Journal introduces reverse engineering by ripping apart the MineSweeper game included with Windows XP. This paper covers the basics of the Windows Debugger and steps through the entire reverse engineering and cheat code development process."
