I wanted to thank Keith Combs and his excellent blog for reminding everyone of my man-crush on Jack Bauer. Someone pointed me to a terrific website and I just had to share. It's called " Top 100 Facts About Jack Bauer ". Here are some of the best: "The...

Well, I am long overdue in posting this and I apologize. As many of you are aware, I spend about 70% of my time on the road doing international travel, so I'm usually trying to figure out how to say, "Take me to the < insert hotel chain here > hotel...

So I want to take a second to vent. First, I recognize that I work for Microsoft and before the whole Trustworthy Computing thing (which hit it's 5 year anniversary this week) the concept of security and Microsoft was the brunt of several jokes. Not hurting...

I got told today about a new phishing attack that the guys at Sophos found. This one seems to just cut through the smoke and mirrors. It tells you that a hit man (aka Tony and his crew) has been hired to kill you. However, for the mere fee of $80,000...

Well, it happens sooner or later. Someone (probably you) ends up setting your keys somewhere and then spend the next 20 minutes destroying your house looking for them. I actually had a friend who left in his keys inside the refrigerator once. Sad. When...

For those of you who don't regularly read Bruce Schneier's blog (or books for that matter), it's a pretty good read and one you should consider. He found a YouTube gem from the TV show "Family Guy" that shows Stewie doing some pen-testing of his own....

This is just too funny not to post. Things like this seem to happen pretty regularly here at Microsoft, especially when it refers to coffee. I guess coffee is liquid gold to our army of developers and running out is a serious issue. DCR is a "design change...

I'm guessing your here to see the "sexy models". Well, I'm about to start delivering a session on Threat Modeling , which is about 100x more useful than any runway modeling. I'll leave the glamour modeling to Tyra Banks and Heidi Klum . (I especially...

It's very rare that I get to work in lyrics from a Jim Morrison song into my blog, but this is a good one. I hope that everyone reading this is aware that Windows Defender (Beta 2) expired on 12/31/2006. Users running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003...