As most of you as well, I was looking for information and opinions on Cloud Security over the last year. I found a lot of papers but when I talk to our customers I realize that they think about the Cloud but Cloud Security is mainly something for the...

As you might know, it was time for the Data Protection Day in Europe again. Unfortunately I did not find the videos from this year’s competition yet but I guess we will find them later on the page and on YouTube. However, we released a study on Privacy...

Just to make sure you have seen that: We just released a blog Security Advisory 979352 – Going out of Band Quoting the blog: Based on our comprehensive monitoring of the threat landscape we continue to see very limited, and in some cases, targeted attacks...

There was and still is a lot of noise regarding the Internet Explorer vulnerability reported in Microsoft Security Advisory 979352 – including the normal discussion about which browser is most secure. A discussion I do not want to get into here but I...

I guess you might have seen it by now but if not, please make sure you read and understand the material available: This night we released a Security Advisory on a Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution . The reason for that...

The recent IE attacks have show again that the current technology built in Windows Vista and Windows 7 could at least help to mitigate the attacks. One of these technologies which could be used more broadly is Data Execution Prevention (DEP). Here is...

Often when I talk to our customers and they ask me about the cloud, a lot of questions come up. Most of them are security related (obviously) but some of them are more management focused. For example the question about how to manage a hybrid environment...

A few days ago, I blogged on Tired of Web 2.0? Kill your Online Identities – an automated way to “disappear” from Web 2.0 (actually Facebook has banned the tool since…). Today, I was reading an article called Un-Google Yourself . Trust me, I am not explicitly...

No, this is not a joke. If you are tired of all the discussions about Web 2.0, the privacy breaches and the related problems, you can commit Web 2.0 Suicide. There is a Web 2.0 Suicide Machine – but we warned before you do it – this process seems to work...

When the industry prepared for the Year 2000, I was working in a consulting company living good from doing reviews on Y2k-projects. Then the year 2000 came and nothing happened (besides a big party). Then year 2010 came – and the bug actually got hold...

Well, in my last post I wrote about the prices for malware. Today I read the next evolution of this: The possibility to have malware tested against anti-malware tools – not to make sure malware is really recognized, no, the other way round: To make sure...

I know that Christmas is over and I know how my kids actually compile a Wish List: They take most of the ads (which are targeted to them) and glue them onto a piece of paper for Mom and Dad to make sure that everything can be found under the Christmas...