Definition of Cloud Computing

Just found this on http://news.yahoo.com/photos/new-adventures-of-queen-victoria-slideshow/20110914-naqv110914-gif-photo-050626492.html

Love that

Roger

Lessons from Some of the Least Malware Infected Countries in the World

Over the course of the last few years we have seen some countries having constantly low infection rates. So, our team in Trustworthy Computing started to ask the question why this is the case. The countries are Austria, Finland, Germany and Japan. I think it is worth y look at them:

Part 1: Introduction to . . . → Read More: Lessons from Some of the Least Malware Infected Countries in the World

Security of Car Software

We have seen some of the attacks recently, where people started to attack either the locks or the technology/software in the car itself controlling the chassis etc.

On DarkReading I was just reading this article: Car Systems Reminiscent of Early PCs

One of the things I do not get with cars is the way they . . . → Read More: Security of Car Software

Update on DigiNotar

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

The DigiNotar Story–So Far

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

Windows Security Praised

A result of a study by Kasperski lab is fairly promising – even though it shows the problem being raising up the stack:

For the very first time in its history, the top 10 rating of vulnerabilities includes products from just two companies: Adobe and Oracle (Java), with seven of those 10 vulnerabilities being found . . . → Read More: Windows Security Praised

Searchable Encryption for the Cloud–soon?

This is a very interesting development. Encryption generally would solve a lot of problems around data sovereignty. So, encrypting the data, keeping the key and moving the data to the public cloud could basically address a lot of the risks. Today, it comes with a high price as the data which resides encrypted in the . . . → Read More: Searchable Encryption for the Cloud–soon?

Google accuses Microsoft to be unfair–Outch (or just stupid?)

An interesting one: Google Threw A Punch, Microsoft Fires Back With A Missile

Roger

Cloud Security in Office365

You heard about the launch of Office365 recently and I hope you read the blog post on the application of the Cloud Computing Security Considerations to the private. cloud. If not, here it is: Security Considerations in a Private Cloud

To complete the series now, we released an additional paper on how these considerations can . . . → Read More: Cloud Security in Office365

Special Intelligence Report on the Rustock Takedown

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

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