Uninformed is pleased to announce the release of its third volume. This volume includes 7 articles that cover a wide array of topics including reverse engineering, exploitation technology, rootkit technology, fuzzing, and other areas of research. The articles included in this volume are: - Engineering in Reverse: Bypassing PatchGuard on Windows x64 Authors: skape & Skywing - Exploitation Technology: Windows Kernel-mode Payload Fundamentals Authors: bugcheck & skape - Fuzzing: Analyzing Common Binary Parser Mistakes Author: Orlando Padilla - General Research: Attacking NTLM With Precomputed Hash Tables Author: warlord - General Research: Linux Improvised Userland Scheduler Virus Author: Izik - Rootkit Technology: FUTo Authors: Peter Silberman & C.H.A.O.S. - What Were They Thinking? Thick Clients Gone Wrong Author: trew This volume of the journal can be found at: http://www.uninformed.org/?v=3 The PullThePlug Contest: PullThePlug is holding a contest to allow individuals in the security community to share knowledge in the form of interesting and innovative papers with the chance of winning a few prizes. The contest ends on Feb. 10th, 2006 and winners will be announced on March 1st, 2006. Uninformed will be reviewing submissions to the PullThePlug contest for possible inclusion in the May 3rd release of the next issue of the journal. You can find more information about the PullThePlug contest here: http://www.pulltheplug.org/contest/ About Uninformed: Uninformed is a non-commercial technical outlet for research in areas pertaining to security technologies, reverse engineering, and lowlevel programming. The goal, as the name implies, is to act as a medium for informing the uninformed. The research presented in each edition is simply an example of the evolutionary thought that affects all academic and professional disciplines. Uninformed is currently not accepting general submissions. - Uninformed staff [at] uninformed.org
