HITB2012AMS Day 2 – Ghost in the Allocator
Ghost in the Allocator – Abusing the Windows 7 / 8 Low Fragmentation Heap After introducing himself, Steven Seeley, Senior Penetration Tester and Security Researcher at Stratsec starts his presentation by sharing the talk agenda: Why target the heap manager Heap terms Some Windows 7 theory WIndows 7 exploitation Changes introduced in Windows 8 Heap Windows […]
Installing Windows 7 from a USB key
Microsoft has announced that it will support Windows 7 installations from a USB key. This will allow people to install Windows 7 on systems that do not have a DVD drive (yes, Windows 7 will also run quite fast on your old notebook that only has 1Gb of RAM and does not have a DVD […]
Windows 7 Beta vs Release Candidate
If you are still running Windows 7 Beta, then it’s time to check out the Release Candidate version. Microsoft has reported on the Windows team blog that the Beta version will ‘stop working’ (in fact it will reboot every 2 hours) starting from July 1st. However, you can download the RC version, but the downloads […]
IPSec VPN between Windows Server 2008 and Juniper ScreenOS
In this blog post, I will show you how to set up a IPSec VPN tunnel between a Windows Server and a Juniper ScreenOS based firewall and route traffic between hosts that are located behind these 2 VPN gateways. The Windows Server will acts as a gateway to build a VPN tunnel towards the Juniper […]
How to restore a Windows 2003 DC using ASR and VMWare
The following procedure should work for any type of hardware, but I’ve used VMWare (so this procedure is also valid if you want to convert a physical Domain Controller to VMWare). Additionally, the procedure works for Windows 2003 server, but also for Windows XP (professional) Prerequisites : ASR backup .bkf file and the ASR floppy […]