Alexandre Marins' Blog

How to Build a Trusted Brand? 3 Lessons from The Brothers Karamazov

It's considered by many, including Freud and Nietzsche, a masterpiece of Fyodor Dostoyevsky:The...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 03/04/2016

How to Create a Social Engineering Incident Response Plan?

Hello, What's cross your mind when talking about Security? Most of IT professionals and users when...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 02/29/2016

How to Explain What is Cloud Computing for your Grandma?

Cloud or Cloud computing is a term that has dominated the media. Even those who do not work directly...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 02/26/2016

Best Practices for Meetings using Skype for Business - Large Audiences

Hello ladies and gentlemen, When you’re scheduling your Skype for Business (Lync) Meetings,...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 02/25/2016

How to build a Security Awareness program? Microsoft Security Awareness Toolkit - FREE!!!

Hello, Security isn't a destiny itself but it's a journey. How is your company preparing end...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 02/25/2016

Microsoft takes on global cybercrime epidemic in tenth malware disruption

Hello, As you may have seen from Reuters, the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) announced its...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 07/01/2014

The Security Realm: A Microsoft Map of the Known World

Hello, This is a Microsoft map infographic released at Black Hat 2013, that illustrates the various...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 02/14/2014

Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit releases latest Citadel botnet cleanup data

Hello, I wanted to reach out to let you know that the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) released...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 08/02/2013

Microsoft to Offer Standing Bug Bounty

Hello, What about get a 100K dollars? See how:...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 06/20/2013

Security Response Readiness Assessment - It's FREE!

Hello, The free Security Response Readiness Assessment is designed to help you identify, monitor,...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 05/09/2013

Microsoft Finds PCs That Ship Pre-Infected

Hello, “One more thing to worry about: Your brand-spanking-new computer could be infected with...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 02/22/2013

Lync 2013 reaches RTM

Hello, Lync 2013 reaches RTM. What a product!!! See details: Lync 2013 reaches RTM!...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 10/15/2012

Attack Surface Analyzer available

Hello, Attack Surface Analyzer is developed by the Trustworthy Computing Security group. It is the...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 10/05/2012

Microsoft Disrupts the Nitol Botnet to Protect Millions from an Emerging Threat

Hello, Because we share an interest in cybersecurity and public safety threats, I wanted to reach...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 09/13/2012

Do you know what Microsoft does to Combat Human Trafficking?

Hello, Are you aware about what Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit is doing to combat Human Trafficking?...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 06/18/2012

Exchange Risk Assessment Program - ExRAP Datasheet

Exchange Risk Assessment Program - ExRAP This post is only to point for the ExRAP's Datasheet link:...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 03/30/2012

What's Operation b71? Understand how Microsoft is fighting back against cybercrime to protect their customers.

H3ll0, What's Operation b71? Have you heard about ZEUS malware? What about BotNets? You can...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 03/28/2012

Attack Surface - a free Analyzer tool.

H3ll0, Security isn't a destiny itself, it's a journey. How safe this journey will be? Depends on a...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 01/02/2012

What's Evercookie? Mitigations techniques included.

H3LL0, "C is for Cookie. That's good enough for me. Cookie, cookie, cookie starts with C" sings the...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 12/26/2011

What's the Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques in 2010?

H3LL0, Every year the Web security community produces a stunning amount of new hacking techniques...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 12/23/2011

Do you know how many Data Breaches were tracked since 2005 in U.S.?

Hello, 2011 was a significant year for data security, with some of the biggest data breaches in our...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 12/20/2011

Defending Against Cross-Site Scripting Attacks (Defending Against XSS)

Hello dear readers, Published reports' statistics show "Cross-Site Scripting Attacks (XSS Attacks)"...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 12/06/2011

TechEd Brazil 2011 - Quick Session: Microsoft Free Tools to help in diagnostics and troubleshooting (Part 2) ADTD ADMAP

(Active Directory Topology Diagrammer - ADTD) Hello, At my quick session delivered at TechEd Brazil...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 10/27/2011

Lync - Conversation Translator

Lync Conversation Translator Download Conversation Translator Conversation Translator provides a...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 10/21/2011

Duqu - is a 'son of Stuxnet'?

A research lab has discovered on computers in Europe a worm very similar to Stuxnet, according to a...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 10/20/2011

Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator - version 17.8 released on October, 2011

Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator - Released on October, 12th 2011 - version...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 10/20/2011

Keeping your Mailboxes' storage Capacity Planning under control

Hello, It's very common to find mailboxes without a size limit during a Risk Assessment for...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 10/17/2011

TechEd Brazil 2011 - Quick Session: Microsoft Free Tools to help in diagnostics and troubleshooting (Part 1)

Hello, I delivered a quick session last week at TechEd Brazil 2011. During the presentation I...

Author: Alexandre Marins Date: 10/05/2011