Hyper-V is {Here}
We just released Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V to manufacturing. You can find more information on our Virtualization Page
Roger
Deploying Forefront Client Security at Microsoft
A question I often get is “How does Microsoft solve the problem x in their IT?” (e.g. How does Microsoft do Patch Management). These questions are usually directed towards MSIT (Microsoft IT as we call it) and not towards Microsoft as a vendor. I guess you know that we have a site called IT Showcase…
DetailsLinks to Microsoft Security Pages
Our Chief Security Advisor in Italy spent quite some time to collect a list of web-pages and blogs with regards to Microsoft and Security. If you are looking for something, go there and find it J
http://blogs.technet.com/feliciano_intini/pages/microsoft-blogs-and-web-resources-about-security.aspx
Roger
New Information on SQL Injection Attacks
I just wanted to make sure that you have seen the Advisory (Rise in SQL Injection Attacks Exploiting Unverified User Data Input) where we added some additional information. This is especially important as we did not “only” publish guidance but tools as well: Detection – HP Scrawlr (a free scanner from HP) Defense – UrlScan…
DetailsBitlockerâ„¢ completes FIPS 104-2 Certification
I am very proud for the product team to tell you that Windows Vista Bitlockerâ„¢ completes FIPS 140-2 certification. If you are interested, you find the according certificate here.
Roger
Issue deploying updates with SCCM 2007
There seems to be some problems deploying the latest security updates with System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to SMS 2003 Agents. If you have any challenges with that or need more information, please see the just published advisory System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Blocked from Deploying Security Updates
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Money talks in Security – Does it?
Often, when I talk to security people, they are telling me that if they would have more budget and money available, the problem would be much lower. Now, I have been in Qatar last week, one of the richest countries in my region. If you look at the GDP per capita (which is mainly the…
DetailsServer Core in our Security Bulletins
A question that was often raised after the launch of Windows Server 2008 was about Server Core and our Security Bulletins: How do you know whether a Server Core installation needs updating as well? We just added a statement to our Security Bulletins this month answering this question. As an example in MS08-036 we state…
DetailsAre we talking about the right things?
I am in Qatar at the moment at the Doha Information Security Conference. They actually have a very interesting setup as they only have very short presentations (about 5-10 minutes) of approx. 2 people and from there on they are working with a panel discussion on the topic during the rest of the hour. As…
DetailsSecurity Compliance Management – Solution Accelerator Available
I wrote about it as we released the Beta. Now, the Solution Accelerator for Security Compliance Management is live and available. It is definitely worth looking at it: Security Compliance Management. Just to quote from the webpage: In today’s IT environment, the ability to comply with regulations and industry standards, such as the Sarbanes Oxley…
DetailsService Oriented Architecture and the Security Implications
I was reading through a paper ISF wrote on the security implications of a Service Oriented Architecture and was thinking about whether this is really that difference from the “non-Service-Oriented-Architecture”. Let’s have a brief look at that: What is SOA? I do not want to elaborate on this as I guess most of you know…
DetailsWindows Server 2008 PKI and Certificate Security
Fresh out of press (ok, it is out since beginning of April but I just saw it now): Brian Komar, the well-known author of several PKI books on Windows Server just released a new book called Windows Server 2008 PKI and Certificate Security. If you are planning a Windows Server 2008 PKI, this is a…
DetailsOn-Premise vs. On-Demand (or SaaS) – A Quocirca Report
I was made aware of a pretty good report on Software as a Service Quocirca did in collaboration with Microsoft. It is not the kind of “new, what you never heard before”-thing but I personally think that it is a good investment of time to get an overview of Software as a Service and some…
DetailsThe Emancipation of Hackers
In the world of Chinese Hackers there seems to be a group especially for female hackers. I just read this post: Chinese Female Hacker Group which show a pretty high growth rate of women joining: The website for the China Girl Security Team was registered on 12 Mar 2007 and currently has 2,217 members. The…
DetailsThe “successful†attack on Cardspace
I guess you read it as it was pretty wide-spread in the press in the last few days: On the Insecurity of Microsoft’s Identity Metasystem CardSpace. Well, is there any official Microsoft reaction to it? No, not yet and if you look a little bit more in depth into it, I doubt that there will…
DetailsMicrosoft Advisory for Safari Flaw
I posted yesterday on the Safari flaw (Why Apple has to fix the Safari flaw) as Apple did not acknowledge that this is a security vulnerability. Unfortunately we had now to release an advisory for this as we started to see that the bad guys could use this “feature” to attack machines – we are…
DetailsNew Guidance on the SQL Injection Attacks
We just published yesterday two new pieces of guidance for the latest SQL Injection attacks, which I want to make sure you saw it:
- Preventing SQL Injections in ASP
- SQL Injection Attack – which is a great piece of work pulling the different views of the latest attacks together
Roger
Why Apple has to fix the Safari flaw
Remember me talking about Is Security Research Ethical? I made a statement in there when it comes to responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities: And then, what does the vendor do with it? Does the company act on it? Now, we can debate on what a vulnerability is and what not. Personally I am convinced that a…
DetailsThe latest SQL Injection Attacks
Well, there was quite some chatter over the last few weeks with regards to the massive defacements we saw based on SQL Injection Attacks. So, what was really new? Close to nothing. Well, this is not completely true. The new thing we have seen with these attacks is automation; however a lot of people did…
DetailsResearcher at Microsoft Research wins ACM award for Privacy Protection
I just read this article on Cryptography Expert Wins ACM Award for Advances in Protecting Privacy of Information Retrieval. This is really cool to see that research with do at Microsoft Research not “only” leads to advancements in our products but to public recognition as well. Well done Sergey!
Roger