Roger Halbheer on Security
I saw a lot of chatter on blogs and Twitter about Windows 7 E (the European edition without Internet Explorer). On July 24th, we published a new proposal on that. Read our statement yourself: Microsoft Proposal to European Commission
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It is pretty typical – these things often happen, when I have a really bad Internet connection ;-). However, I am back home and the connection is kind of better now… I guess you have seen and heard about the two out of band updates we shipped yesterday. They are kind of special and I…
A few months ago, I already had some discussions with Eugene Kaspersky during an event of the Council of Europe on Cybercrime, how to address cybercrime on the Internet. At the moment, I am at a very, very slot connection and just got, what I saw on my RSS feed enclosure and could not verify…
Well, as I am not really working, just a quick one: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6787&rss
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The day before yesterday we opened the Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 Security Baselines Beta and would look forward to getting your feedback and comment. So, sign up for it if you are interested: Sign-Up Now for the New Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 Security Baselines Beta Opening July 13th!
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As you know, I am a big fan of the concepts behind Network Access Protection as it allows to dynamically define zones on you network. We just published a whitepaper called Manage Network Access Protection at Microsoft: Network Access Protection (NAP) is a powerful new Windows Server 2008 feature that can help protect networks from…
Just some fun before I leave for vacation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUawhjxLS2I
BTW: Office 2010 really rocks – I am running the Technical Preview since quite a while now…
Have a good summer
Roger
This is “real†hard-core security. If the ATM feels that it is tempered with, it releases pepper spray. It is kind of a “self-defense†mechanism. I just hope it never thinks that I am tempering with the machine when I just want to get money…
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I often see a lot of discussions on Information Warfare. Today I just stumbled across a paper published by RAND called Strategic Information Warfare – A New Face of War – from my first impression definitely worth reading
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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.…
I guess you know my view to protection of USB-ports. I get often asked how you can protect your user’s from using USB-sticks. There are ways – especially in Vista – but don’t do it. Your users most probably have a good business reason, why they would want to use USB-sticks and by not letting…
At the Analyst Event last week I was asked more than once about the File Classification Infrastructure. As it was something I never looked into the details, I started from the blog post I wrote mid May File Classification Infrastructure in Windows Server 2008 R2 and just wanted to collect some information about it. If…
I often have the opportunity to keynote events on security. I rarely want to talk about products but much more about the way I see the development around security on the Internet. The reason why I do this presentation the way you see below is, that threats change and criminals evolved (and will still evolve)…
We are just kicking off the EMEA TwC Analyst Summit, which is running for the next two days. The first time we are using technologies like Twitter live from the event and we encourage the Analysts to do the same. Therefore, you might follow what is going on there on different channels but mainly: The…
I am running Microsoft Security Essentials (called “Morroâ€) since quite a while on my Mediacenter and I am definitely convinced of it. So, go ahead and test it: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/resources.aspx – it will be our free Anti-Malware solution
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Wednesday and Thursday we are running an event for selected analysts in London. As you might know, I am tweeting via http://www.twitter.com/rhalbheer and I will try to do some live tweeting from the event during the event – never did this but I will try. In addition, there are some analysts we know that they…
This is probably one of the best news I read since a long time. I often said, that I am convinced that we are in a lot of areas around security leading the industry. The complexity of building multi-purpose software in a secure way started to be addressed by us back when we introduced the…
One more proof that we listen to you: We made certain changes to Bing in order rot help you to protect from sexual explicit content. Please read the corresponding blog post Safe Search Update. Even though this is very good news, it does not change my view that education of parents and children is at…
We started a program called “Browser for the Better†where we donate 8 meals to Feeding America per download of Internet Explorer 8 (until August 8th).
So, go out and download Internet Explorer 8 from the site above
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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…
