Posts Tagged ‘Russinovich’

Mark Russinovich Talks About SID Duplication

January 3rd, 2010

Mark shared another great article on his blog.  The article talks about duplicate SID myth that has been around a long time.  Mark goes into why the now retired Sysinternals NewSID could be retired.  I will let you read the article in full by following the link below.  One of the most interesting parts I found is that nobody at Microsoft had really challenged if this was a valid issue for a long time.  This situation just goes to show that you should always look at things from every angle any opportunity you get.  This will be one of my new years resolutions. Let us know if you have run across any of these types of situations in the IT world.

Mark Russinovich’s Post On SID Duplication Myth
http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/default.aspx

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Windows Security Boundaries Presentation

December 8th, 2009

I had a great video forwarded onto me by another IT Pro.  Microsoft has a presentation by Mark Russinovich on Windows Security Boundaries.  This is a great resource to learn how Microsoft approaches security boundaries in their operating systems.  Some of the security boundaries that are covered include physical machines, system virtual machines, and user sessions.  Mark also goes in to processes, patch guard, and kernel-mode signing.  As always Mark does a great job of breaking down security using some of his System Internals Tools.  The presentation is about an hour and fifteen minutes long.  Personally I think it is well worth your time if you want understand operating system security better.

Windows Security Boundaries On Tech Net
http://www.microsoft.com/emea/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=993

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Not My Fault Driver Test Program

October 29th, 2009

One of the hardest things as an IT Pro is to recreate a situation.  There are a few tools out there that help you recreate problems that impact your systems on a daily basis.  One of these programs is Not My Fault written by Mark Russinovich.  This tool demonstrates several different issues like driver bugs, overrunning buffers, and memory leaks.  As you can see from from the picture below there are several different options you can choose from.  You can get this great tool from following the link below and downloading notmyfault.zip.  So now you know longer have an excuse as an IT pro that you can’t recreate a memory leak or driver issue.  Download the program now and start practicing how you identify these issues.

Not My Fault Download Link From Sysinternals
http://download.sysinternals.com/files/notmyfault.zip

Not My Fault Driver Crash Test Program

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