The Mars lander has been a fantastic success this week and the brainz has been on NASA overload. Couple that with some Perseid watching out back with Alvis last night and things are super fun.
Here is a fresh linkage roundup this week. I recommend a slice of Key-Lime pie with it.
New Microsoft videos and Miscellaneous presentations
- "Defrag Tools" - a new Channel 9 series (that will talk a lot about Sysinternals utilities) - Aaron Margosis' "Non-Admin" and App-Compat WebLog
- Defrag Tools - Microsoft Channel 9 - neat source for fresh reviews of MS tools and techniques.
- Defrag Tools: #1 - Building your USB thumbdrive
- Defrag Tools: #2 - Process Explorer
- Black Hat USA 2012 Presentation – Targeted Intrusion Remediation: Lessons from the Front Lines - Mandiant M-unition blog. I highly recommend viewing Jim Aldridge’s presentation slide-show (PDF) along side the excellent whitepaper (PDF) for the best experience.
- Black Hat USA 2012 - Briefings - Great collection of materials over a wide-range of topics.
Network Bits
- Troubleshoot Network Issues with Netalyzr - CyberNet News - review of helpful site for network troubleshooting.
- Where did the Capture Filter go in Wireshark 1.8 (by Tony Fortunato) - LoveMyTool blog
- SoftPerfect Network Scanner - Updated to version 5.4.5 this week.
Tool and Utility Roundup
- DOWNLOAD: SysInternals Suite (Updated August 3, 2012) - Kurt Shintaku's Blog - Notice that Microsoft Sysinternals has updated their “package” suite of tools. Sysinternals Suite
- KLS SOFT - WSCC - Windows System Control Center - Neat handy program that organizes and manages both the tools from Sysinternals as well as from NirSoft. Great way to access as well as update these tools in a collective manner.
- ToolTip: FindUninstallString - Anything about IT blog - Handy tool to do a reg search for references to uninstall strings. FindUninstallString
- Windows Disco - Hexacorn blog. New free tool to walk “…through all processes and their windows and takes a screenshot of each window, then saves it to a temporary PNG file in a current subfolder (named disco); you may review all these files either in an application itself, or in an Explorer, IrfanView or other image viewer.” Good illustration of technique for hunting spy/key-logger apps that utilize a “hidden” window with their process.
- Detect Usermode Hooks with NoVirusThanks Ring3 Hook Scanner - NoVirusThanks new tool to help with malware analysis
- MMC has detected an error in a snap-in and will unload it - Ask the Performance Team - Hotfixes for this post July 2012 update issue (if it happens) are linked in the post.
- How To Build Your Own Image System with ImageX - Windows7hacker - Old hat to me now but this guide is nice guide to the process with lots of images to help clarify the process.
- Do copy acceleration utilities actually lower file transfer speeds? Our tests say yes -freewaregenius.com - Confusing post title, but bottom line is that copy-helper apps may not result in quite as peak transfer rates as you would think. caveat emptor
- SRWare.net - New Iron-Version: 21.0.1200.0 Stable for Windows
Windows Live Essentials Updates
I was surprised to see news that Windows Essentials 2012 got some updating this week. The primary focus seems to be in Movie Maker and Photo Gallery. I thought most of it was to re-brand and distance from the “Live” naming, but there were some pretty big enhancements.
When I applied the Windows Essentials updater, I noted that many other Essentials apps also got an updating, including my fav Windows Writer. Unfortunately, trying to find a useful change-log for the updates is next to impossible, so your guess (at this time) is as good as mine as to what actually the upgrade enhances.
- Introducing the New Windows Photo Gallery and Movie Maker - Windows Experience Blog
- List of all new features in Windows Photo Gallery and Movie Maker 2012 - LiveSide.net
- Microsoft's Essentials 2012 drops Live branding, Vista support and pumps up Windows 8 - Betanews
- New Windows Photo Gallery & Movie Maker Add Auto Collage, Panorama & Enhanced Narration - AddictiveTips blog
The Web-Life
- How to Remove or Hide a Last Name from a Windows Live Profile - Windows Live Unplugged
- Google Adds Personal Gmail Results Into Search - Liz Gannes - AllThingsD - Creepy.
- Google quietly launches 'Account chooser' for easier multiple account login - The Verge
- Advanced sign-in security for your Google account - Official Google Blog
- How it works - Accounts Help (Getting started with 2-step verification) - Google Help
- One Factor, Two Factor, Three Factor, More - SpiderLabs Anterior
Security and Patching Watch
- Microsoft to close critical holes in August Patch Tuesday - The H Security
- Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for August 2012 - Microsoft
- APSB12-16 - Prenotification Security Advisory for Adobe Reader and Acrobat - Adobe Security Bulletins
- Adobe warns of critical holes in Reader, Acrobat - ZDNet
- An even more secure Flash Player for our Windows users - Google Chrome blog
- The road to safer, more stable, and flashier Flash - Chromium blog
Forensics
- Windows Incident Response: RegRipper Updates - Windows Incident Response blog
- Dropbox Forensics - Champlain College Computer & Digital Forensics report by Jake Viens
Cheers.
--Claus V.
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