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Mark Russinovich

January 01, 1970

Mark Eugene Russinovich (born December 22, 1966) is a Spanish-born American software engineer and author who serves as CTO of Microsoft Azure. He was a cofounder of software producers Winternals before Microsoft acquired it in 2006.

Mark Russinovich
Russinovich at PDC 2010, October 2010
Born (1966-12-22) December 22, 1966 (age 57)
Salamanca, Spain
OccupationCTO of Microsoft Azure
EmployerMicrosoft
Known forCo-founder of Winternals Software and Sysinternals.com; LiveKd[1]
Websitemarkrussinovich.com

Early life and education edit

Russinovich was born in Salamanca, Spain and was raised in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, until he was 15, when he moved with his family to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His father was a radiologist and his mother was a business administrator of his father's radiology practice in Pittsburgh. Russinovich is of Croatian descent.[2]

He was introduced to computers when his friend's father got an Apple II in the 1970s. He reverse-engineered its ROM program and wrote programs for it. At age 15, he bought himself his first computer, a TI-99/4A. About six months later, his parents bought him an Apple II+ from his local high school when it upgraded the computer labs to Apple IIes. He also wrote magazine articles about Apple II.[3]

In 1989, Russinovich earned his Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha Beta Sigma chapter.[citation needed] The following year he received a Master of Science degree in computer engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He later returned to Carnegie Mellon, where he received a Ph.D. in computer engineering in 1994[4] with the thesis Application-Transparent Fault Management[5] under the supervision of Zary Segall.

Career edit

From September 1994 through February 1996, Russinovich was a research associate with the University of Oregon's computer science department. From February through September 1996 he was a developer with NuMega Technologies, where he worked on performance-monitoring software for Windows NT.[6]

In 1996, he and Bryce Cogswell cofounded Winternals Software, where Russinovich served as Chief Software Architect, and the web site sysinternals.com, where Russinovich wrote and published dozens of popular Windows administration and diagnostic utilities including Autoruns, Filemon, Regmon, Process Explorer, TCPView, and RootkitRevealer.

From September 1996 through September 1997, he was a consulting associate at OSR Open Systems Resources, Inc., based in Amherst, New Hampshire. From September 1997 through March 2000, he was a research staff member at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, researching operating system support for Web server acceleration and serving as an operating systems expert.[6]

Russinovich joined Microsoft in 2006 when it acquired Winternals.

As an author, Russinovich is a regular contributor to TechNet Magazine and Windows IT Pro magazine (previously Windows NT Magazine) on the Architecture of Windows 2000, and was co-author of Inside Windows 2000 (Third Edition). He wrote many tools used by Windows NT and Windows 2000 kernel-mode programmers, and the NTFS file system driver for DOS.

Works edit

In 1996, Russinovich discovered that altering two values in the Windows Registry of the Workstation edition of Windows NT 4.0 changed the installation so it was recognized as a Windows NT Server and allowed the installation of Microsoft BackOffice products which were licensed only for the Server edition.[7] The registry key values were guarded by a worker thread to detect tampering; later, a program called NT Tune was released to kill the monitor thread and change the values.

Russinovich wrote LiveKD, a utility included with the book Inside Windows 2000. As of 2022, the utility is readily available to download.[1]

In 2005, Russinovich discovered the Sony rootkit in Sony DRM products, whose function was to prevent users from copying their media.[6]

In January 2006, Russinovich discovered a rootkit in Norton SystemWorks by Symantec. Symantec immediately removed the rootkit.[8][9][10] He also analyzed the Windows Metafile vulnerability and concluded that it was not a deliberate backdoor.[11] This possibility had been raised—although tentatively—by Steve Gibson after a cursory investigation of the nature of the exploit and its mechanism.[12]

Russinovich's novels Zero Day (foreword by Howard Schmidt)[13] and Trojan Horse (foreword by Kevin Mitnick) were published by Thomas Dunne Books on March 15, 2011 and September 4, 2012, parts of a series of popular techno-thrillers that have attracted praise from industry insiders such as Mikko Hyppönen and Daniel Suarez.[13][14] A short story, "Operation Desolation",[15] was published just before Trojan Horse and takes place one year after the events of Zero Day. Book 3, Rogue Code: A Novel (Jeff Aiken Series, May 2014) deals with vulnerabilities of the NYSE. It has a foreword by Haim Bodek, author of The Problem of HFT: Collected Writings on High Frequency Trading & Stock Market Structure Reform.[13][16]

Computer books

  • Solomon, David; Russinovich, Mark (September 16, 2000). Inside Microsoft Windows 2000 (Third ed.). Microsoft Press. ISBN 0-7356-1021-5.
  • Russinovich, Mark; Solomon, David (December 8, 2004). Microsoft Windows Internals (Fourth ed.). Microsoft Press. ISBN 0-7356-1917-4.
  • Russinovich, Mark; Solomon, David; Ionescu, Alex (June 17, 2009). Microsoft Windows Internals (Fifth ed.). Microsoft Press. ISBN 978-0-7356-2530-3.
  • Russinovich, Mark; Margosis, Aaron (July 12, 2011). Windows Sysinternals Administrator's Reference. Microsoft Press. ISBN 978-0-7356-5672-7.
  • Russinovich, Mark; Solomon, David; Ionescu, Alex (April 5, 2012). Microsoft Windows Internals, Part 1 (Sixth ed.). Microsoft Press. ISBN 978-0-7356-4873-9.
  • Russinovich, Mark; Solomon, David; Ionescu, Alex (October 2, 2012). Microsoft Windows Internals, Part 2 (Sixth ed.). Microsoft Press. ISBN 978-0-7356-6587-3.
  • Russinovich, Mark; Margosis, Aaron (October 17, 2016). Troubleshooting with the Windows Sysinternals Tools. Microsoft Press. ISBN 978-0-7356-8444-7.

Novels

  • Zero Day: A Novel. Thomas Dunne Books. March 15, 2011. ISBN 978-0-312-61246-7.
  • Operation Desolation: A Short Story. Thomas Dunne Books. August 7, 2012. ISBN 9781466821552.
  • Trojan Horse. Thomas Dunne Books. September 4, 2012. ISBN 9781250010483.
  • . Thomas Dunne Books. May 20, 2014. ISBN 9781250035370. Archived from the original on May 30, 2014. Retrieved May 30, 2014.

Articles

  • "Inside NT's Object Manager". Windows IT Pro. Penton. October 1997. from the original on October 11, 2017. Retrieved March 31, 2013.
  • "Inside NT's Scheduler Part 1". Windows IT Pro. Penton. July 1997. Archived from the original on April 12, 2013.
  • "Inside NT's Scheduler Part 2". Windows IT Pro. Penton. August 1997. Archived from the original on April 12, 2013.
  • . Windows IT Pro. Penton. December 1998. Archived from the original on October 24, 2017. Retrieved March 31, 2013.
  • "Inside Encrypting File System, Part 1". Windows IT Pro. Penton. June 1999. from the original on October 11, 2017. Retrieved March 31, 2013.
  • "Inside Encrypting File System, Part 2". Windows IT Pro. Penton. June 1999. from the original on October 11, 2017. Retrieved March 31, 2013.
  • . TechNet Magazine. Microsoft. February 2007. Archived from the original on November 18, 2008. Retrieved March 30, 2007.
  • . TechNet Magazine. Microsoft. March 2007. Archived from the original on March 31, 2007. Retrieved March 30, 2007.
  • "Inside the Windows Vista Kernel: Part 3". TechNet Magazine. Microsoft. April 2007.
  • "Inside Windows Vista User Account Control". TechNet Magazine. Microsoft. June 2007.
  • "Inside Windows 7 User Account Control". TechNet Magazine. Microsoft. July 2009.

Videos

  • "Advanced Malware Cleaning". Windows Sysinternals. Microsoft. November 2006.
  • "Mysteries of Windows Memory Management Revealed, Part 1 of 2". Channel 9. Microsoft. October 2010.
  • "Mysteries of Windows Memory Management Revealed, Part 2 of 2". Channel 9. Microsoft. October 2010.
  • . IP EXPO Europe. Imago Techmedia. October 2014. Archived from the original on October 11, 2017. Retrieved July 19, 2017.

References edit

  1. ^ a b "LiveKd - Windows Sysinternals". March 23, 2021.
  2. ^ Martinović, Ratko (October 28, 2012). [Bad PR in the Diaspora – What are the world famous people of Croatian descent, and that you did not even know]. Dnevno.hr (in Croatian). Archived from the original on October 30, 2012. Retrieved November 27, 2012.
  3. ^ "Interview with Mark Russinovich by Microsoft Student Partners". YouTube. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
  4. ^ . Making it Big in Software. Making it Big Careers Inc. Archived from the original on December 18, 2010. Retrieved February 13, 2011.
  5. ^ Russinovich, Mark Eugene (1994). Application-transparent fault management (Thesis). ProQuest 304086659.
  6. ^ a b c "Affidavit of Mark Russinovich in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for Final Approval of Class Action Settlement" (PDF). United States District Court Southern District of New York. SonySuit.com. April 2, 2005.
  7. ^ Andrew Schulman (September 16, 1996). . O'Reilly and Associates. Archived from the original on April 11, 2018. Retrieved December 4, 2020.
  8. ^ Turner, Suzi (January 11, 2006). "Symantec confesses to using rootkit technology". ZDNet. CBS Interactive. Retrieved November 6, 2012.
  9. ^ . Security Response. Symantec. January 10, 2006. Archived from the original on October 26, 2012. Retrieved November 11, 2012.
  10. ^ Russinovich, Mark (January 16, 2006). . Mark Russinovich's Blog. Winternals. Archived from the original on May 13, 2013. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
  11. ^ Russinovich, Mark (January 19, 2006). "Inside the WMF Backdoor". Mark Russinovich's Blog. Winternals. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
  12. ^ Steve Gibson (January 12, 2006). "grc.news.feedback newsgroup". Gibson Research Corporation. Archived from the original on February 21, 2013. Retrieved November 6, 2007. The only conclusion that can reasonably be drawn is that this was a deliberate backdoor put into all of Microsoft's recent editions of Windows.
  13. ^ a b c Russinovich, Mark (March 15, 2011). Zero Day: A Novel. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0312612467.
  14. ^ Trojan Horse: A Novel. Thomas Dunne Books. September 4, 2012. Retrieved November 11, 2012.
  15. ^ Operation Desolation: A Short Story. Thomas Dunne Books. August 7, 2012. Retrieved June 1, 2014.
  16. ^ Russinovich, Mark (2014). . Jeff Aiken series. foreword by Haim Bodek (son of American physicist Arie Bodek). Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN 978-1250035370. Archived from the original on November 24, 2017. Retrieved November 29, 2017.

External links edit

  • Official website
  • Mark's public event/session videos on Microsoft IT's Showtime! by TechNet[permanent dead link]
  • Appearance on The Stack Exchange Podcast, Nov 11, 2011
  • Original Article on Sony's rootkit
  • Inside the WMF backdoor
  • Windows Sysinternals Tools written by Mark Russinovich
  • Interview with Scott Hanselman about Zero Day and Trojan Horse, 26 July 2012
  • Mark on Security Now, 19 Sep 2012
  • Mark on Windows Weekly, 20 Sep 2012

January 01, 1970
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Mark Eugene Russinovich born December 22 1966 is a Spanish born American software engineer and author who serves as CTO of Microsoft Azure He was a cofounder of software producers Winternals before Microsoft acquired it in 2006 Mark RussinovichRussinovich at PDC 2010 October 2010Born 1966 12 22 December 22 1966 age 57 Salamanca SpainOccupationCTO of Microsoft AzureEmployerMicrosoftKnown forCo founder of Winternals Software and Sysinternals com LiveKd 1 Websitemarkrussinovich wbr com Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 Works 4 References 5 External linksEarly life and education editRussinovich was born in Salamanca Spain and was raised in Birmingham Alabama United States until he was 15 when he moved with his family to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania His father was a radiologist and his mother was a business administrator of his father s radiology practice in Pittsburgh Russinovich is of Croatian descent 2 He was introduced to computers when his friend s father got an Apple II in the 1970s He reverse engineered its ROM program and wrote programs for it At age 15 he bought himself his first computer a TI 99 4A About six months later his parents bought him an Apple II from his local high school when it upgraded the computer labs to Apple IIes He also wrote magazine articles about Apple II 3 In 1989 Russinovich earned his Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University where he was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha Beta Sigma chapter citation needed The following year he received a Master of Science degree in computer engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute He later returned to Carnegie Mellon where he received a Ph D in computer engineering in 1994 4 with the thesis Application Transparent Fault Management 5 under the supervision of Zary Segall Career editFrom September 1994 through February 1996 Russinovich was a research associate with the University of Oregon s computer science department From February through September 1996 he was a developer with NuMega Technologies where he worked on performance monitoring software for Windows NT 6 In 1996 he and Bryce Cogswell cofounded Winternals Software where Russinovich served as Chief Software Architect and the web site sysinternals com where Russinovich wrote and published dozens of popular Windows administration and diagnostic utilities including Autoruns Filemon Regmon Process Explorer TCPView and RootkitRevealer From September 1996 through September 1997 he was a consulting associate at OSR Open Systems Resources Inc based in Amherst New Hampshire From September 1997 through March 2000 he was a research staff member at IBM s Thomas J Watson Research Center researching operating system support for Web server acceleration and serving as an operating systems expert 6 Russinovich joined Microsoft in 2006 when it acquired Winternals As an author Russinovich is a regular contributor to TechNet Magazine and Windows IT Pro magazine previously Windows NT Magazine on the Architecture of Windows 2000 and was co author of Inside Windows 2000 Third Edition He wrote many tools used by Windows NT and Windows 2000 kernel mode programmers and the NTFS file system driver for DOS Works editIn 1996 Russinovich discovered that altering two values in the Windows Registry of the Workstation edition of Windows NT 4 0 changed the installation so it was recognized as a Windows NT Server and allowed the installation of Microsoft BackOffice products which were licensed only for the Server edition 7 The registry key values were guarded by a worker thread to detect tampering later a program called NT Tune was released to kill the monitor thread and change the values Russinovich wrote LiveKD a utility included with the book Inside Windows 2000 As of 2022 the utility is readily available to download 1 In 2005 Russinovich discovered the Sony rootkit in Sony DRM products whose function was to prevent users from copying their media 6 In January 2006 Russinovich discovered a rootkit in Norton SystemWorks by Symantec Symantec immediately removed the rootkit 8 9 10 He also analyzed the Windows Metafile vulnerability and concluded that it was not a deliberate backdoor 11 This possibility had been raised although tentatively by Steve Gibson after a cursory investigation of the nature of the exploit and its mechanism 12 Russinovich s novels Zero Day foreword by Howard Schmidt 13 and Trojan Horse foreword by Kevin Mitnick were published by Thomas Dunne Books on March 15 2011 and September 4 2012 parts of a series of popular techno thrillers that have attracted praise from industry insiders such as Mikko Hypponen and Daniel Suarez 13 14 A short story Operation Desolation 15 was published just before Trojan Horse and takes place one year after the events of Zero Day Book 3 Rogue Code A Novel Jeff Aiken Series May 2014 deals with vulnerabilities of the NYSE It has a foreword by Haim Bodek author of The Problem of HFT Collected Writings on High Frequency Trading amp Stock Market Structure Reform 13 16 Computer books Solomon David Russinovich Mark September 16 2000 Inside Microsoft Windows 2000 Third ed Microsoft Press ISBN 0 7356 1021 5 Russinovich Mark Solomon David December 8 2004 Microsoft Windows Internals Fourth ed Microsoft Press ISBN 0 7356 1917 4 Russinovich Mark Solomon David Ionescu Alex June 17 2009 Microsoft Windows Internals Fifth ed Microsoft Press ISBN 978 0 7356 2530 3 Russinovich Mark Margosis Aaron July 12 2011 Windows Sysinternals Administrator s Reference Microsoft Press ISBN 978 0 7356 5672 7 Russinovich Mark Solomon David Ionescu Alex April 5 2012 Microsoft Windows Internals Part 1 Sixth ed Microsoft Press ISBN 978 0 7356 4873 9 Russinovich Mark Solomon David Ionescu Alex October 2 2012 Microsoft Windows Internals Part 2 Sixth ed Microsoft Press ISBN 978 0 7356 6587 3 Russinovich Mark Margosis Aaron October 17 2016 Troubleshooting with the Windows Sysinternals Tools Microsoft Press ISBN 978 0 7356 8444 7 Novels Zero Day A Novel Thomas Dunne Books March 15 2011 ISBN 978 0 312 61246 7 Operation Desolation A Short Story Thomas Dunne Books August 7 2012 ISBN 9781466821552 Trojan Horse Thomas Dunne Books September 4 2012 ISBN 9781250010483 Rogue Code Thomas Dunne Books May 20 2014 ISBN 9781250035370 Archived from the original on May 30 2014 Retrieved May 30 2014 Articles Inside NT s Object Manager Windows IT Pro Penton October 1997 Archived from the original on October 11 2017 Retrieved March 31 2013 Inside NT s Scheduler Part 1 Windows IT Pro Penton July 1997 Archived from the original on April 12 2013 Inside NT s Scheduler Part 2 Windows IT Pro Penton August 1997 Archived from the original on April 12 2013 NT vs UNIX Is One Substantially Better Windows IT Pro Penton December 1998 Archived from the original on October 24 2017 Retrieved March 31 2013 Inside Encrypting File System Part 1 Windows IT Pro Penton June 1999 Archived from the original on October 11 2017 Retrieved March 31 2013 Inside Encrypting File System Part 2 Windows IT Pro Penton June 1999 Archived from the original on October 11 2017 Retrieved March 31 2013 Inside the Windows Vista Kernel Part 1 TechNet Magazine Microsoft February 2007 Archived from the original on November 18 2008 Retrieved March 30 2007 Inside the Windows Vista Kernel Part 2 TechNet Magazine Microsoft March 2007 Archived from the original on March 31 2007 Retrieved March 30 2007 Inside the Windows Vista Kernel Part 3 TechNet Magazine Microsoft April 2007 Inside Windows Vista User Account Control TechNet Magazine Microsoft June 2007 Inside Windows 7 User Account Control TechNet Magazine Microsoft July 2009 Videos Advanced Malware Cleaning Windows Sysinternals Microsoft November 2006 Mysteries of Windows Memory Management Revealed Part 1 of 2 Channel 9 Microsoft October 2010 Mysteries of Windows Memory Management Revealed Part 2 of 2 Channel 9 Microsoft October 2010 Cloud Security Video Public Cloud Security Surviving in a Hostile Multitenant Environment Mark Russinovich CTO Microsoft Azure IP EXPO Europe Imago Techmedia October 2014 Archived from the original on October 11 2017 Retrieved July 19 2017 References edit a b LiveKd Windows Sysinternals March 23 2021 Martinovic Ratko October 28 2012 Los PR u dijaspori Koje su svjetski poznate osobe podrijetlom Hrvati a da to niste ni znali Bad PR in the Diaspora What are the world famous people of Croatian descent and that you did not even know Dnevno hr in Croatian Archived from the original on October 30 2012 Retrieved November 27 2012 Interview with Mark Russinovich by Microsoft Student Partners YouTube Archived from the original on December 21 2021 Retrieved April 15 2012 Mark Russinovich Making it Big in Software Making it Big Careers Inc Archived from the original on December 18 2010 Retrieved February 13 2011 Russinovich Mark Eugene 1994 Application transparent fault management Thesis ProQuest 304086659 a b c Affidavit of Mark Russinovich in Support of Plaintiffs Motion for Final Approval of Class Action Settlement PDF United States District Court Southern District of New York SonySuit com April 2 2005 Andrew Schulman September 16 1996 Differences Between NT Server and Workstation Are Minimal O Reilly and Associates Archived from the original on April 11 2018 Retrieved December 4 2020 Turner Suzi January 11 2006 Symantec confesses to using rootkit technology ZDNet CBS Interactive Retrieved November 6 2012 Symantec Norton Protected Recycle Bin Exposure Security Response Symantec January 10 2006 Archived from the original on October 26 2012 Retrieved November 11 2012 Russinovich Mark January 16 2006 Rootkits in Commercial Software Mark Russinovich s Blog Winternals Archived from the original on May 13 2013 Retrieved March 13 2013 Russinovich Mark January 19 2006 Inside the WMF Backdoor Mark Russinovich s Blog Winternals Retrieved March 13 2013 Steve Gibson January 12 2006 grc news feedback newsgroup Gibson Research Corporation Archived from the original on February 21 2013 Retrieved November 6 2007 The only conclusion that can reasonably be drawn is that this was a deliberate backdoor put into all of Microsoft s recent editions of Windows a b c Russinovich Mark March 15 2011 Zero Day A Novel St Martin s Press ISBN 978 0312612467 Trojan Horse A Novel Thomas Dunne Books September 4 2012 Retrieved November 11 2012 Operation Desolation A Short Story Thomas Dunne Books August 7 2012 Retrieved June 1 2014 Russinovich Mark 2014 Rogue Code A Novel Jeff Aiken series foreword by Haim Bodek son of American physicist Arie Bodek Thomas Dunne Books ISBN 978 1250035370 Archived from the original on November 24 2017 Retrieved November 29 2017 External links editOfficial website Video interview with Mark in his office at Microsoft on TechNet Edge Mark s public event session videos on Microsoft IT s Showtime by TechNet permanent dead link Appearance on The Stack Exchange Podcast Nov 11 2011 Original Article on Sony s rootkit Inside the WMF backdoor Windows Sysinternals Tools written by Mark Russinovich Interview with Scott Hanselman about Zero Day and Trojan Horse 26 July 2012 Mark on Security Now 19 Sep 2012 Mark on Windows Weekly 20 Sep 2012 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Mark Russinovich amp oldid 1216098302, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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