Consumerization of IT–How to address this
Bring Your Own Device or Consumerization of IT are fairly hot themes in a lot of customer organizations. When I talk to customers, there are typically different reactions, once we bring this up. Some tell us, that it is not part of their strategy; some tell us that they plan to do it but that they have a hard time figuring out, how to secure such an environment; very, very ...
10 Years of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft
Before 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 XP
I 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 Security
A 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 ...
By Roger Halbheer, on October 20th, 2011 A lot of countries are currently looking at their capabilities to defend their networks as well as leveraging technology for offense doing “Cyberwarfare”. Let’s now not debate where this starts or ends…
Pakistan is another example: Pakistan to open cyber warfare school
I can understand where governments and militaries are coming from but this deeply . . . → Read More: Another Cyberwarfare School–better keep them employed!
By Roger Halbheer, on October 19th, 2011 A few years ago I posted on DaRT after having seen it: Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset. It is a really good an interesting tool for a lot of problems, one of them being incident response. I just stumbled across one article describing this: Using the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) for Incident Response.
. . . → Read More: Using the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) for Incident Response
By Roger Halbheer, on October 12th, 2011 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?
By Roger Halbheer, on October 11th, 2011 It is not that rare for Law Enforcement that they use software to spy in the case of severe accusations like terrorism. What is kind of surprising is the level of sophistication some of these Trojans seem to have – and not necessarily to the good side.
The German Chaos Computer Club analyzed the Trojan . . . → Read More: German’s Government-Created Trojan Vulnerable
By Roger Halbheer, on October 3rd, 2011 Interesting: Microsoft takes the Android profit, the Wonkas take the pain
I quote:
Yet Android costs Google billions, without drawing revenue. Microsoft is making half a billion a year from Android. The settlement with Oracle, when it eventually comes, will add even more costs to working with Android – for anyone who dabbled with it.
. . . → Read More: Why Patents are not here to be violated: Google’s challenges with Android
By Roger Halbheer, on October 3rd, 2011 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
By Roger Halbheer, on September 28th, 2011 Our Digital Crimes Unit just took down another one: After Rustock and Waladec, now comes Kelihos.
This is another great success in fighting criminals. If you want to read more: Microsoft Neutralizes Kelihos Botnet, Names Defendant in Case
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By Roger Halbheer, on September 16th, 2011 Sorry but you do not get a date (I do not have one either). I was just reading an article on Bink.ru with a nice representation of the Windows timeline
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By Roger Halbheer, on September 16th, 2011 Just found this on http://news.yahoo.com/photos/new-adventures-of-queen-victoria-slideshow/20110914-naqv110914-gif-photo-050626492.html
Love that
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By Roger Halbheer, on September 15th, 2011 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
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