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March, 2008

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  • Still undecided about Vista?

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    To Vista or not to Vista – a question quite some enterprises are asking these days. Mark Russinovich recently hosted a roundtable to discuss Vista deployments including its challenges with different people: Customers who have already deployed as well...

  • Open Government Data Principles

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    In December about 30 government advocates assembled to decide on - what they called - Open Government Data Principles. Even though the group was very US focused (if you look at the list of participants ), the outcome is very interesting. I quote the main...

  • Pricelist for Botnets

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    It is not new and I blogged several times on it: If you own a botnet, you can make quite some money. As the Law Enforcement is going after the bot herder I would not suggest you to enter this business, nevertheless. I just read an article today with...

  • SPAM moving to SMS?

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    Well, I do not hope and I do not expect it to. Why? Well, mobile text messages are not free – mails are (at least kind of). Nevertheless, if the "vulnerability" is within the mobile provider, all of a sudden, SMS could become a real SPAM channel. Recently...

  • Safari to crash XP

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    Not only that it is "forced" on the clients – it seems even to crash Windows XP machines: Safari 3.1 Crashes On Windows XP, Users Complain – and now I stop complaining Roger

  • Sun and Apple Updates – A Sheer Nuisance!! – Part 2

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    Quite some of you read my initial post on that – and I like the comments I got. Now, it seems that I am not the only one being angry: I quote from What Microsoft can teach Apple about software updates For the record, I think Apple is dead wrong in...

  • Vulnerability in Microsoft Jet Database Engine (Jet) Could Allow Remote Code Execution

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    I usually do not blog on Advisories we release as I guess that you subscribed to the corresponding alerts. If not, you should do that now here . This one is a little bit different as I know that quite some people within Microsoft are working during...

  • Sun and Apple Updates – A Sheer Nuisance!!

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    As you all know: I rarely blog on competitors and – even rarer – blog about them negatively. But this time I definitely had to: As most of us I have QuickTime on my PC as well as a Java VM. I know that there are alternatives for this software and the...

  • New Technology ending Hardware Piracy?

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    I just read an interesting article on a new hardware technology that – the patent owner hope – would end piracy on Integrated Circuits. Obviously, piracy s not only a software problem…… New Tech Fights Chip Piracy With Virtual Lock and Key Roger...

  • Technology to Circumvent Censorship

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    Well, I was thinking hard whether I shall blog on that or not. But then a friend of mine brought up a valid point: I am always claiming that a lot of issues on the Internet are missing a public debate yet, what is more important - and this might well...

  • A New Model to Taylor your Testing

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    I guess you know the problem: You ran a development project and have to test the code (if the testing phase did not already have to be cut significantly as you ran out of time – too often seen with projects at customer sites…). A German research now has...

  • New Privacy-Technology enables new (private) Business Models

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    We announced it recently: Be acquired the U-Prove technology by a company called Credentica and quite some key members of Credentica have joined us. When we announced it, my excitement was – well – limited. It was another company we bought. But when I...

  • Analysis of Cyber-Terror

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    The US Military just released a pretty interesting in-depth article on Cyber-Terrorism and the different aspects of it. Even though it has a little bit more than 40 pages, it is worth reading: Cyber Operations and Cyber Terrorism Roger

  • Steve Ballmer on next revolution in computing

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    Over the next time (actually starting at RSA) you will hear more from us how we see the future of security. You should watch out for Craig Mundie's keynote there. But last Monday Steve Ballmer had a speech at the CeBIT in Germany on the next revolution...

  • Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is available

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    We just made Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 available. This is especially important if you are developing web applications in order to test them. Os, here are the important links: IE 8 Beta 1 Readiness Toolkit Channel 9 discussion on IE8 features ...

  • External Collaboration Toolkit for Sharepoint

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    Often exchanging information and collaborating with external people is a big challenge. Therefore we just published a Solution Accelerator called External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint Roger

  • How to handle a security crisis

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    Do you know that problem: You are at the beginning of a security crisis and should be able to give an official statement but PR (or whoever is responsible to draft this statement) is not ready yet – but you really, really, urgently need something? Well...

  • Infoworld on Windows Server 2008 Security and Privacy

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    We launched Windows Server 2008 (as you hopefully know J ). Infoweb published an article on Windows Server 2008 Security and Privacy: http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/02/27/Microsoft-touts-Longhorn-security_1.html Roger

  • DHS Security Level on your Webpage

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    A blog reader sent me a mail informing me that he wrote a small application that links the DHS security level to your webpage. I added it to my news section and it looks pretty interesting. If you want to do that as well, here is the link: http://www...
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