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October, 2007

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  • The Complexity of the “Spyware Landscape”

    Posted over 6 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    A pretty interesting article on Spyware (and a lot of other "beasts"): The Increasing Complexity of the New Spyware Landscape Roger

  • Defend the Flag Workshop at Deepsec

    Posted over 6 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    There is a cool workshop at Deepsec in Vienna mid of November, which is called "Defend the Flag". The idea is that you will be trained for a day and during the second day, you have to configure your systems and they will be attacked. The one that holds...

  • Microsoft has the shortest Security Update Development cycle

    Posted over 6 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    Have you had a look at Symantec's latest Threat Report? It can be found here: http://www.symantec.com/content/de/de/about/downloads/PressCenter/ISTRXII_Main.pdf I briefly read through it and one statement caught my eye: Page 54: Of the five operating...

  • Security Intelligence Report v3 is Live!

    Posted over 6 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    I hope you read my yesterday's blog on the RSA story (if not, it is here ). I mentioned the Security Intelligence Report there. SIR is actually live in its third version, covering what we saw January to June 2007. Let me point out some "highlights...

  • RSA Europe: Are you ready for security and privacy?

    Posted over 6 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    Do you remember? In January 2002, Bill Gates sent a famous mail to all the Microsoft employees and announced Trustworthy Computing . Since then it became part of our DNA. The interesting thing to me is, that the four pillars of TwC remained the same ...

  • Are you ready for Unified Communications?

    Posted over 6 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    Today, Bill Gates sent out a mail to roughly 300'000 subscribers of the Executive Mail . This time he does a recap of his Unified Messaging mail which he sent out in 2006 and gives an overview of the advances we had since then. To name just a few: Office...

  • Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation

    Posted over 6 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    There is an interview on MSNBC with Bill where the readers could actually send the questions. It is all about their foundation and pretty impressive to read: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21212128/site/newsweek/ Roger

  • Fighting Spam Internationally

    Posted over 6 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    There are different ways how to deal with Spam. One is, to eat it (yes, I know it is an old joke but I still like it…) – see the " official SPAM website " J If it comes down to e-mail SPAM, the problem is different: Most of the ISPs today are using...

  • Windows Cardspace – the sleeping beauty

    Posted over 6 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    One of the problems I often see with some of our products is that they actually have some great features but not enough people know about them. Sometimes I am meeting a customer and he or she is telling me that they are just running an evaluation for...

  • Anti-Phishing-Training

    Posted over 6 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    Wow! Ever thought that you are a phishing-expert? Ever tried to train your users? Carnegie Mellon University developed a game which trains you or tests your knowledge (where ever you are). I like it: http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/antiphishing_phil/ Roger

  • Analysis of the cyber-capabilities of AlQaeda

    Posted over 6 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    I blogged already several times about Cyber-Terrorism. I think it is important to try to keep the pulse of these developments and to understand what the terrorists are capable of doing. There is an article about a recent event, where somebody tried to...
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