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November, 2008

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  • MS08-067 – ACT NOW!

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    I blogged today about the work outbreak. We are seeing an increasing number of critical support calls because of customers being infected by the worm attacking the vulnerability fixed in MS08-067. Let me be even clearer than before: The update is out...

  • Attacks on MS08-067

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    As we were pushing on our Out-of-Band release earlier this month we tried to make you understand that immediate deployment is needed as the vulnerability is high risk. Otherwise we would not have gone out of band… Interestingly enough, we have not...

  • Security Risks in the Supply Chain?

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    At the moment I am travelling through the Gulf in order to launch the Security Intelligence Report v5 with local data. During one of the discussions today, a question was raised which I was thinking about quite some while (but – honestly - do not have...

  • How Spam Filters work

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    Just a short one: I think I had to feed that into the requirements list for our Exchange team: Roger

  • Get Safe Online – This Week

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    We see this concept all over Europe: There are National Security Awareness Days (or how ever they are called) in a lot of European countries. During these events, the industry (from software to banking to government to …) gets together to raise awareness...

  • Security – One of the Key Reasons to Migrate to Windows Vista (part 2)

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    In my last post , I briefly touched on different features of Windows Vista, which I think are important with regards to the view on Windows XP vs. Windows Vista. Let’s take a different approach now: I recently was on a panel in Eastern Europe where I...

  • Security – One of The Key Reasons to Migrate to Windows Vista (part 1)

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    The value of Windows Vista is often questioned. There are a lot of customers who still think that there might be nor reason to migrate to Windows Vista. I will publish two blog posts giving you some views on the security of our latest operating system...

  • Safe Social Networking

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    I am often asked by a lot of people what my view is on the social networks like Facebook and what I think about it. Well, the most important points first: I am using social networks myself as I like them to keep an eye on people I might lose otherwise...

  • Lottery Scams – One of the Biggest Threat to End Users

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    I just want to tell you that I will retire. Yes, sure! I just won twice in a lottery. I just have to make sure that all the taxes and insurance policies are paid… You know them as well, don’t you? The mails you get to tell you that you won in a lottery...

  • The Next Version of ISA Server (“live” from TechEd EMEA)

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    If is once again one of these posts with the start like “I am just sitting in a session…”. Actually I had some time today to visit sessions and look into some things I have never seen. We often have discussions around the future of our products and what...

  • Security Intelligence Report v5 Live!

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    As you are probably used from us, we are issuing our Security Intelligence Report twice an year. It is by far the most comprehensive report across the industry. This report helps us to understand the threat landscape and will help you to do the same as...

  • Live from the TechEd EMEA Keynote

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    I did this already last year and will do it again just now: I am sitting in the keynote of TechEd EMEA and just wanted to make sure you get all the security-related (and just cool) announcements of the keynote as “real-time” as possible. In addition I...

  • Cyber Advice for the Next President

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by rhalbheer}
    As we all know, next week the new President of the United States will be elected. Behind the scenes a lot of teams are preparing the transition from President Bush to the new president. It seems now that a commission is getting ready to advise on cybersecurity...
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