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10 Years of Trustworthy Computing at MicrosoftBefore joining Microsoft a little bit more than 10 years ago, I ran a team at PricewarehoureCoopers on e-Business Risk Management – classical security consulting in the Internet bubble time. When I announced that I will leave PwC and join Microsoft, I got interesting reactions (and remember, this was 2001). Mainly they were along two lines: Oh, you are joining a desktop company? ... 
10 Reasons to migrate off Windows XPI would like you to sit back, close your eyes and think about the year 2001. Think about how you used technology back then, how you used the Internet. Now, let’s take it a little bit further back in history and think of the year 2000. Just after we realized that the Year-2000-Problem was handled very well by the industry. How you used technology, how you used the Internet, the ... 
Office 365 Becomes First and Only Major Cloud Productivity Service to Comply With Leading EU and U.S. Standards for Data Protection and SecurityA long title but this was the title of the official press statement yesterday. Compliance is always a key question in the public cloud space. Therefore it is very important for us that we now achieved three things: Office 365 is compliant with EU Model Clauses, Data Processing Agreements and ISO 27001 among other standards. Office 365 is the first and only major ... 
Cybersecurity–More than a good headlineA lot of governments all across the globe are working on starting, restarting or pushing their Cybersecurity initiative. What often concerns me is, that the last real headline has more impact on the strategy and the themes to be addressed than a structure or a plan or a strategy. This made us thinking about what is needed to run a successful Cybersecurity Agenda within a country? What themes ought to be ... 
l am still sitting in the parliament room of the Council of Europe at the celebration event for the Budapest Convention. It was another very good event advancing the challenges fighting Cybercrime. Let me try to summarize a few thoughts: The Budapest Convention is probably the best convention out there allowing a wide adoption of . . . → Read More: Council of Europe Octopus Conference- Some Thoughts This is actually an interesting approach: VeriSign Proposes Takedown Procedures and Malware Scanning for .Com. This leads to the discussion I have so often: What is more important? The single website or the greater good? Now, do not get me wrong: I see the risks of VeriSign taking down microsoft.com because a blog hosted there . . . → Read More: VeriSign to Take Down Malware Sites? Always something new… As these kinds of codes are mainly used on mobile phones (or only used on mobile phones) the malware actually addresses smartphones “only” – in this case Android: Hackers using QR codes to push Android malware. If you use a code such as this (source: ZDnet Article referenced):
You will . . . → Read More: Hackers using QR Codes to Push Malware And interesting development tonight: Based on what happened with DigiNotar recently (especially with the false certificates for *.google.com), the Dutch government decided to have an official statement and in there to take over operations of the CA. The official statement (in Dutch) can be found here. The key problem is that the certs were . . . → Read More: Update on DigiNotar I just read an article on SANS: DigiNotar breach – the story so far. To be clear: This is not a Microsoft analysis nor any official statement from us. What we have to say is in the advisory: Microsoft Security Advisory (2607712) – Fraudulent Digital Certificates Could Allow Spoofing. It just gives an interesting overview . . . → Read More: The DigiNotar Story–So Far As you might remember, on Match 16th Microsoft together with other industry players was successfully able to take down the Rustock botnet and thus significantly reducing the spam level. We now just published a special Intelligence Report on this botnet: Read an overview of the Win32/Rustock family of rootkit-enabled backdoor Trojans background, functionality, how it . . . → Read More: Special Intelligence Report on the Rustock Takedown A while ago we released the Microsoft Security Update Guide to explain how we release security updates and how you should/could work with our updates. It encompasses these themes: Get to know the security update release process Learn how to evaluate risk See how to mitigate security risks Understand how quickly you need to apply . . . → Read More: Microsoft Security Update Guide, Second Edition It seems that RSA got attacked and might have lost some information. They actually took a really courageous step and went public and the Executive Chairman wrote an open letter. To quote: While at this time we are confident that the information extracted does not enable a successful direct attack on any of our RSA . . . → Read More: Effectiveness of SecureID reduced? A new version of this guide went live – I think something, you should look at. There is a metrology and a process in detail: So, if you want to learn more: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc162838.aspx Roger |
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