Office 2010: The Movie
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
Physical Security: ATMs equipped with Pepper Spray
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…
Roger
Paper on Information Warfare
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
Roger
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.…
DetailsBitlocker To Go – Cool Stuff
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…
DetailsFile Classification Infrastructure: More content
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…
DetailsEnd-to-End Trust: The Internet – a safer place to work, play, learn and do business
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)…
DetailsEMEA TwC Analyst Summit
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…
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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
Roger
Live-Tweet from Analyst Event
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…
DetailsMicrosoft awarded for Security
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…
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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…
DetailsDownload Internet Explorer 8 and help hungry people
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
Roger
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…
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I got some questions on my blog post that you should not by a Wii at the moment. The key question was about whether this is just a teaser. Well, look at the demos they did at E3. You find them here:
Roger
Bing and the Video Preview (and Family Safety Settings)
You might have seen recent posts on Bing getting under attack because of the video preview feature, which works (obviously) for “normal†videos as well as for porn… To be clear upfront: I am the daddy of two great sons at the age of 7 and 10, so at least the 10-year-old starts to get…
DetailsThought of buying a Wii? Think again
I have to admit: Not really security related but really, really, really cool. Look at this Xbox trailer: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-09-project-natal/50017?type=wmv
Roger
Bing – Check it out
You heard it: We went live with our new search engine called Bing on bing.com as we are convinced that you should not search – but find!
You should have a look at it especially as we got some outstanding third-party feedback.
Roger
Securing Microsoft's Cloud Infrastructure
A lot of people and companies are talking about “the Cloud†today. I guess that there are not too many companies that share the same track record of running online services as Microsoft. 1994 we launched MSN and since then we are in this business. Microsoft Global Foundation Services (the group responsible for this infrastructure)…
DetailsHow we do IT: Direct Access
You might know that we have something we call the Microsoft IT Showcase, where our internal IT shows how they use our technology to run our environment. Now, we just published a new article, which might be interesting for you to read called Using DirectAccess to Provide Secure Access to Corporate Resources from Anywhere. I…
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