http://praetorianprefect.com Information security, a little slower...a little deeper Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:59:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/04/winpe-3-0-forensics/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/04/winpe-3-0-forensics/#comments Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:46:49 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=3608 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/04/winpe-3-0-forensics/feed/ 19 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/03/3473/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/03/3473/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:38:40 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=3473 Today is patch Tuesday for March 2010, and Microsoft has released two security bulletins for this round of updates, neither of which are deemed critical. The second bulletin addresses seven different vulnerabilities across various versions of Microsoft Office Excel.]]> http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/03/3473/feed/ 0 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/03/press-f1-for-help-pwned/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/03/press-f1-for-help-pwned/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:39:54 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=3444 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/03/press-f1-for-help-pwned/feed/ 3 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/01/windows-smb-crash-video/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/01/windows-smb-crash-video/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:27:07 +0000 Prefect http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=2997 on November 11th, 2009 we confirmed Laurent Gaffié's remote exploit for Windows that causes a kernel crash. The operating system actually freezes creating a denial of service when for example a user is tricked into clicking on a link to a malicious SMB share on a web page. The SMB client goes into an infinite loop when processing this malformed request according to Microsoft. The video below demonstrates this effect, having a user click a web site link and showing the crash.]]> http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/01/windows-smb-crash-video/feed/ 5 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/regular-or-decaf-tool-launched-to-combat-cofee/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/regular-or-decaf-tool-launched-to-combat-cofee/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:21:34 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=2250 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/regular-or-decaf-tool-launched-to-combat-cofee/feed/ 8 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/six-bulletins-in-last-patch-tuesday-of-2009/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/six-bulletins-in-last-patch-tuesday-of-2009/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:39:55 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=2088 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/12/six-bulletins-in-last-patch-tuesday-of-2009/feed/ 1 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/11/from-promiscuous-to-port-scanning-with-powershell/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/11/from-promiscuous-to-port-scanning-with-powershell/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:04:15 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=1924 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/11/from-promiscuous-to-port-scanning-with-powershell/feed/ 1 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/10/where-is-your-bes-policy/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/10/where-is-your-bes-policy/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:23:52 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=1139 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/10/where-is-your-bes-policy/feed/ 3 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/10/server-2008-r2-active-directory-functional-levels/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/10/server-2008-r2-active-directory-functional-levels/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:12:14 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=758 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/10/server-2008-r2-active-directory-functional-levels/feed/ 8 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/09/2008-server-to-the-core/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/09/2008-server-to-the-core/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:47:06 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=398 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/09/2008-server-to-the-core/feed/ 0 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/09/whos-being-promiscuous-in-your-active-directory/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/09/whos-being-promiscuous-in-your-active-directory/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:18:50 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=719 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/09/whos-being-promiscuous-in-your-active-directory/feed/ 1 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/09/windows-task-scheduler-backwards-incompatibility/ http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/09/windows-task-scheduler-backwards-incompatibility/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:49:35 +0000 MJP http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=741 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2009/09/windows-task-scheduler-backwards-incompatibility/feed/ 0