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The Microsoft Security Engineering Center ('MSEC') has released an open source tool called the !exploitable Security Analyzer (pronounced 'bang exploitable') to detect and analyze security and crashes within software projects while they are in development. Designed around the familiar People-Processes-Technology frame of reference, !exploitable has been designed as a Windows Debugger (Windbg) extension and works on a rule-based engine to parse out and categorize crash dumps for further investigation.

Slides are also available for those interested in delving further into the gory details.

OK, so we’ve all heard that Obama is a technology “addict” and avid Blackberry user. One of those addictions was, obviously, his need to be connected on the go.  Before assuming Office, it was doubtful whether Obama would be able to continue using his Blackberry model due to obvious personal and national security reasons. Well now, finally it looks like he will be able to feed his addiction on a Sectera Edge device.

The photo and link explain everything, although there’s just one thing I found odd… no GPS??

Update: So as it turns out, Obama is using a Blackberry after all. Thanks, Engadget!

If you’ve ever wondered what kind of a car the President of the most powerful nation in the world rides in, well, look no further than the picture below. The car currently being tested by Cadillac boasts host of features built specifically for the most powerful man in the world – the US President. In many ways it is the ultimate in safety and security on 4 wheels.

Stumbled upon this via Reddit. Forums for the popular Microsoft site, Channel 9, were a mess today apparently due to not filtering user input. So much for not using web development best practices on your own websites, MS. Behold the mess in all its glory…

There’s also a long scrolling screenshot of the full page for those interested in the ahem.. ‘finer’ details:

Microsoft has made its excellent suite of Windows 'Sysinternals' utilities available over a network share. Apparently, according to Mark Russinovich (the Sysinternals guru) the purpose of doing this is to test out an alternative delivery mechanism for Sysinternals tools. But hey, we're not complaining.

Without further ado, here's the link:  http://live.sysinternals.com/

You can also read up on Mark's blog for the latest information on these utilities and other cool ideas on where to use these utilities.