1. Mark Eugene Russinovich was born on December 22,1966 and is a Spanish-born American software engineer and author who serves as CTO of Microsoft Azure.
14 Facts About Mark Russinovich
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Mark Russinovich was a cofounder of software producers Winternals before Microsoft acquired it in 2006.
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Mark Russinovich's father was a radiologist and his mother was a business administrator of his father's radiology practice in Pittsburgh.
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Mark Russinovich was introduced to computers when his friend's father got an Apple II in the 1970s.
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In 1989, Mark 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.
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Mark Russinovich later returned to Carnegie Mellon, where he received a Ph.
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From September 1994 through February 1996, Mark Russinovich was a research associate with the University of Oregon's computer science department.
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In 1996, he and Bryce Cogswell cofounded Winternals Software, where Mark Russinovich served as Chief Software Architect, and the web site sysinternals.
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Mark Russinovich wrote many tools used by Windows NT and Windows 2000 kernel-mode programmers, and the NTFS file system driver for DOS.
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In 1996, Mark 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.
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Mark Russinovich wrote LiveKD, a utility included with the book Inside Windows 2000.
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In 2005, Mark Russinovich discovered the Sony rootkit in Sony DRM products, whose function was to prevent users from copying their media.
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In January 2006, Mark Russinovich discovered a rootkit in Norton SystemWorks by Symantec.
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Mark Russinovich analyzed the Windows Metafile vulnerability and concluded that it was not a deliberate backdoor.