Are We Losing the Fight Against Cybercrime?

It is an interesting and difficult question. What can we do to really be able to stay on top? Or shall we give up? Well, clearly, I do not think so.

I read this article today, which really made me think: Black Hats are Winning, Symantec Says – wow! A fairly clear statement. We lost . . . → Read More: Are We Losing the Fight Against Cybercrime?

A Detailed Analysis of an Attack – Do We Need an International Incident Sharing Database?

I recently came across a paper called Shadows in the Cloud, which is actually a follow-up report of Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network, an investigation of the attacks on the office of the Dalai Lama and some governmental bodies. The report is written by two bodies who had the privilege to investigate those . . . → Read More: A Detailed Analysis of an Attack – Do We Need an International Incident Sharing Database?

Azure Showcase: The Eye on Earth

Well, you know, fairly often when I look at showcases I am a little bit disappointed I have to admit. Mainly because the technology which is shown is really cool and I would love to leverage it – just it works in the US only. Or better, it works across the globe but the data . . . → Read More: Azure Showcase: The Eye on Earth

Monitoring the Blog Hits – Live in Silverlight!

If you are running a blog, you might most probably use one of the websites which show where your user come from – no? Like Clustrmaps, which I used for a few years. Then I found a new one, which I like much more as it gives me more information. If is called WorldMaps and . . . → Read More: Monitoring the Blog Hits – Live in Silverlight!

Security – A Feature Discussion? Some Thoughts on Google's Chrome OS

To be clear upfront: This is not a “Microsoft versus Google” post. I cannot even judge how far Google pushed security with the Chrome OS. But the following article raised quite some questions how we look at security: Inside the Google Chrome OS security model. This article, like so many when security of an Operating . . . → Read More: Security – A Feature Discussion? Some Thoughts on Google's Chrome OS

PHP on Windows Server 2008 – My New Photo Gallery

Well, it was one of these days. In order to make photos available to our family we used SharePoint since quite a while. It did a fairly decent job but I wanted more fancy stuff. So I started to look for something in Silverlight as Silverlight is our web platform. I really found something on . . . → Read More: PHP on Windows Server 2008 – My New Photo Gallery

Monitoring – a Key Activity to a Trustworthy Infrastructure?

As you might have read, I recently blogged about my infrastructure and the future of a platform towards a better management of compliance. I wrote about

Deploying PKI Time Sync on Virtual DCs Patch Management, a key step towards compliance!

Especially the Time Sync post was more about a technical challenge rather than a high-level . . . → Read More: Monitoring – a Key Activity to a Trustworthy Infrastructure?

Distributed Denial of Service – and how it works

I often get asked about Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, how it works and what role we can play to prevent them.

So, let me start with the first part of it: Our Security Intelligence Report version 5 talked about the underground economy and actually explained what is happening before a DDoS takes place. . . . → Read More: Distributed Denial of Service – and how it works

Welcome to reality: Apple Acknowledges OS X Malware

A few years ago, we ran a huge event in Switzerland: We offered people in Switzerland to come to us (we were for a whole week at the airport in Zurich) with their PC and we check it for malware, patch it etc. We did this with a lot of partners and had live TV . . . → Read More: Welcome to reality: Apple Acknowledges OS X Malware

Google Chrome and Silent Patching

This morning I opened one of the Swiss Sunday newspapers and Google Chrome made it to the front-page with a “best practice approach” for deploying security updates. In the article itself it was claimed that Chrome is one of the best browsers with regards to security as the deploy patches silently, without letting the user . . . → Read More: Google Chrome and Silent Patching

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