Blake Watts is a windows internals expert with emphasis on reverse engineering, virtualization, computer security and software development. He has been published in numerous vulnerability advisories, books, and papers on Windows security.

Published papers and books

This section contains a subset of the books and papers I've authored or contributed to over the years.

• [April 2002] Discovering and Exploiting Named Pipe Security Flaws for Fun and Profit
• [April 2005, Syngress] Sockets, Shellcode, Porting ∓ Coding, Syngress Publishing (contributing author)

Vulnerability Advisories

This section contains a subset of the advisories that have made public over the years.

• MS02-032: Windows Media Player WMDM Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
• Denial of Service Vulnerability in Windows 2000 RunAs Service - RADIX1112200103
• Microsoft Windows 2000 RunAs User Credentials Exposure Vulnerability - RADIX1112200102
• Microsoft Windows 2000 RunAs Service Named Pipe Hijacking Vulnerability - RADIX1112200101
• MS01-013: Event Viewer Buffer Overflow
• MS01-031: Telnet Service Privilege Escalation
• MS00-053: Service Control Manager Named Pipe Privilege Escalation

Contact

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