Roger Halbheer on Security
FTC released their Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book for January – December 2010. The interesting and scary thing is that fraud via phone is on the raise. We get more and more complaints by customers as well, telling us that they got a call from “Microsoft†with the ask for getting access to the PC…
Details10 years ago a browser was born. Its name was Internet Explorer 6. Now that we’re in 2011, in an era of modern web standards, it’s time to say goodbye. We all know that Internet Explorer is outdated and that you should move away from it to a newer browser immediately. For security, safety as…
DetailsBotnets are one of the toughest problems in the world of Cybercrime today. At least, this is what we think… ENISA just published an interesting paper called Botnets: 10 Tough Questions, which raise questions about e.g. the size of botnets or better the way the size is estimated etc. Basically the 10 questions are: HOW…
DetailsYou might have seen this experiment but it is absolutely astonishing. A guy called Andy from Scotland tested the upgrade path from Windows 1 through to Windows 7. 10 minutes worth investing if you want to get some nostalgic feelings: Here is the original blog post: Chain of fools : Upgrading through every version of…
DetailsI just read this article on Google pulling 50 applications from their Android marketplace (Google uses remote delete to remove Android apps from smartphones – Update). A very good decision as these apps leverage an exploit to access user data. However, what made me think is that they removed the applications from the devices. This…
DetailsDo you know the feeling? You should share a large file with somebody outside your organization. The file is too big to be sent by e-mail. What can you do? Well, you might have a service by internal IT (we have one) which is not really user-friendly, hard to use and – as you do…
DetailsIt is a repeating pattern but not the less disgusting. Whenever bad things happens on the globe, the criminals are not far. This happened during hurricane Katrina, the tsunami in Indonesia, the earthquake in Haiti and now, not surprisingly in Libya as you can read in this blog post by Sophos: Violence in Libya exploited…
DetailsI just got this from a friend of mine: European heaven : You are invited to an official dinner. The English welcomes you, the French is cooking, the Italian is making the show and the event is organized by the German. European hell: You are invited to an official dinner. The French welcomes you, the…
DetailsYou might have heard that we will ship an update for Windows Phone 7 soon. Yes, with some new functionality, I am waiting for as well. In the next few days we update the update mechanism to make the delivery for the next version smoother. The interesting piece is, however, the update history we publish.…
DetailsA 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
Reading this article Six New Hacks That Will Make Your CSO Cringe made me think as it has a few fairly interesting approaches: Fake Phone Networks: I am wondering how much work it takes to do it. If the effort is not too high, I am not (yet) too worried about it. But still, for…
DetailsMicrosoft Malware Protection Center published a document on Battling the Zbot Threat, a special edition of the Security Intelligence Report. It is a very good document, worth looking at. This is the intro (to make you curious for more): This document provides an overview of the Win32/Zbot family of password-stealing trojans. The document examines the…
DetailsWell, basically this title attracted my attention: How to Do an Online Background Check for Free. I had to try it with myself. So I started, following the sites and suggestions in the article: I clicked on the first link and landed on 9 Sites That Find People and Their ‘Sensitive’ Information – cool. Let’s…
DetailsIt is kind of a tradition that Scott Charney, our Corporate Vice President for Trustworthy Computing, is speaking at RSA. If you look back, he always showed the evolution of Trustworthy Computing and spoke about e.g. End to End Trust and other concepts we use to envision the future of the security ecosystem. This year,…
DetailsJailbreaking is probably one of the biggest problems on phones – mainly because it allows easy access to your secrets. Fraunhofer Institute in Germany showed just that:
Therefore, do not think that your iPhone is secure. Make sure you at least remote wipe the phone, when you lost it…
Roger
I am definitely looking forward to the collaboration Nokia/Microsoft and it seems to have gotten quite some chatter on the web. Interestingly, F-Secure looked into it as well: They looked at the app-model and the sandboxing technology in Windows Phone 7 and concluded (as we do as well) that malware on Windows Phone 7 is…
DetailsYou might have seen it: IE9 RC is now ready for download. I am using IE9 since quite a while and it really, really rocks. Install it from here.
Roger
A fairly interesting thriller on the Internet. It just shows that we need better ways to collaborate between private and public sector and to hunt criminals: How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price
Scary…
Roger
That’s obvious as people probably tend to want to trust more, the worse their situation is. Nevertheless it is even more disgusting going after the desperate!
Cybercrime: A Recession-Proof Growth Industry
Roger
