Well, you saw my post earlier this week on the 1.96% of PCs being updated according to Secuina . Well, as time does, I decided to install this tool as well to look at it. I did an initial scan on my home PC and this was the outcome: Outch, this hurts...

I  wanted to make you aware of a very important announcement we made earlier today. As you know, Trustworthy Computing is all about Security,  Reliability and Business Practices. Our house has a fourth pillar -  Privacy - which we view...

You know that I rarely blog on Advisories we publish unless they are heavily critical. I just want to make sure that you have seen this. MSRC (the Microsoft Security Response Center) constantly updates this advisory with workarounds. Please take this...

Today I was having a discussion with a religious Mac fan claiming that the only problem with security on the Internet is Windows and then I read this article on ZDNet: Despite what blogs (and Apple) say, Macs will eventually have malware In there it is...

I am working on a blog post on Security and Piracy looking into the data I have available. Probably it will be ready next week but what I wanted to know: Is there anybody who did some research about this already? I would appreciate if you could let me...

One of the questions I often get is my position on Cyber-Terrorism. I doubt that there will be “isolated” technology-related terrorism. What we see much more is the use of high-tech during classical terrorism attacks. If you look at the recent terrorism...

I was recently at an event for Law Enforcement where one of the discussion points was how critical it is to protect Smartphones – actually it was more about how easy to would be to claim that my Smartphone was hacked and how proof can be found. That you...

This week I had – again – a longer mail thread on SQL Injection attacks. Probably it caught me at the wrong moment, as it was a very long week preparing for the IE Out of Band making sure everybody knows what they have to do. And then… I was actually...

This is an interesting thing: I just read this post on ZDNet . The blamed us for being the key target for viruses and they always told me that they do not have a security problem. I am convinced that there is no software product having no security vulnerabilities...

You will definitely have heard that we change our Anti-Malware Strategy: We recently announced that we will stop selling Windows Live OneCare and that we will launch a quality no-cost solution code-name “Morro”. There was quite some coverage on that but...

I know that this is not particularly news but nevertheless it could well be that the non-developers out there have not yet seen this. During TechEd EMEA for Developers we announced several things around SDL and had some speeches. Some of them are public...

Just as a short notice: We just started to communicate that we will release a security update for the Internet Explorer vulnerability. At the moment, the update is schedule to be released approx 10:00 am PST (19:00 CET) tomorrow. Have a look at the Advanced...

Go out there and install the update immediately now. Here is the bulletin: MS08-078 - Security Update for Internet Explorer (960714) If you think that you could be infected, run a scan with the online Windows Life OneCare Safety scanner which finds the...

You do not trust e-Business? Why do you trust “normal” business then? Read this: Newspaper 'Steals' Empire State Building in Just 90 Minutes Roger

Outch: McCain campaign sells unwiped Blackberry for $20 Roger

I am more than pleased to inform you that we announced today a partnership between EMC/RSA and us . This partnership involves the integration of EMC/RSA technology into our platform. I quote from our press release: Microsoft will build the RSA® Data Loss...

Well, honestly, I am not completely clear how statistically relevant this data point is. I just read it in a secunia blog where they published figures of users of their free solution. This is data of the last few weeks and looks into the results of the...

I recently had the great opportunity to join the Europol High Tech Crime Experts Meeting 2008 in Den Haag. This is mainly a get together of the High Tech Crime leads of the EU Law Enforcement agencies and countries where they have a close relationship...

On January 28th the European Union is holding the Data Protection Day . To prepare for that, they are holding a competition for young people from 15 to 19 to express their views about online privacy. Here is the teaser: Surf the net – Think privacy! So...

Just a quick one: We received the FIPS 140-2 certification for Bitlocker in Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008. The certificates were posted on the CMVP website on November 25th. The Security Policy Document along with the certificates can be viewed...

There are a lot of reports on a Botnet building on the back of exploits targeting MS08-067: New Windows worm builds massive botnet MS08-067 Vulnerability: Botnets Reloaded Bots exploiting Microsoft's latest RPC flaw Exploit-MS08-067 Bundled in Commercial...