I am using it since the Beta and it is really cool. I am using Messenger (with the integration to Facebook etc.) as well as the Windows Live Writer to blog. It rocks: Windows Live Essentials 2011 available for download now Download and install! Roger

This title immediately caught my attention and probably yours as well: How to detect a hacker attack – something I definitely want to know. And then I realized that the article a) is written from a techie and b) does not really cover the attacks I am...

I want to start upfront: I do not want to take a position here. I have an opinion as a person in my cultural context but I understand that this opinion is by far not the only one which is right or wrong. This morning I read this article: FBI Drive for...

Last week, when I was in South Africa, a partner of us pointed me to a very interesting paper by KPMG called Cloud computing: Australian lessons and experiences . What I like is, that a lot of the items I was recently raising, where actually reflected...

I know that I am not an OpenSource expert and to be completely clear: I do not want to complain at all but I would definitely think whether I would bet my company’s business processes on it… Let me give you my story: March this year I migrated my blog...

What is your view?: Stuxnet: Future of warfare? Or just lax security? Roger

Actually I had a few very interesting discussions lately as a reaction on my post Is There Any Value in Twitter? Yes? Think Again… and I think Thibaud brought it to the point: Mass-follow is the “problem” – in other words me . I had thought about getting...

I want to make you aware of the “Real Men” campaign to raise awareness about the problem of child sex slavery. If you can cope with it, listen to the press conference here: Watch live streaming video from cgi_press at livestream.com This is a unique partnership...

I know that this is “old news” but I wanted to make sure that everybody has seen that: We will make Microsoft Security Essentials available for small business for free. Small businesses are up to 10 PCs. This is great news as a lot of small businesses...

Obviously I do not like people to steal software. Additionally, from at least two perspectives it adds security risks: People are less likely to patch and pirated software often comes wit pre-installed malware, which is then hard to detect. There is just...

The cloud – and now I mean the volcano cloud – showed that there is not always a real need to travel far in to get the right information at an event of conference. I delivered a keynote via LiveMeeting ( Virtual Keynotes – Do we always...

This is one of the risks, not a lot of people look into: It is fairly easy for me to setup a Facebook account in another person’s name. This is what happened to Ronald K. Noble, head of Interpol: Interpol Chief Ronald K. Noble Has Facebook Identity Stolen...

Just before I leave to Johannesburg: Dilbert on Piracy… he is soooo right Roger

I was reading an interesting article: Forrester Pushes 'Zero Trust' Model For Security , where they mainly claim that you should not trust your internal network – something I am asking for since a long time. However, the conclusions Forrester and me are...

We are basically asking the industry to follow a Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure and are therefore not in favor of public vulnerability disclosure as it puts the industry unnecessarily at risk. Recently there was a vulnerability in ASP.NET publically...

I know that this is a very provocative question but it is one I looked into since a few months. If you follow my Twitter account , you will have realized that I dramatically reduced the number of Tweets. I currently only tweet, once I posted on my blog...

Quite a while ago, I implemented the possibility for people chatting with me via MSN Messenger on the web. I actually created a web-page to do so: Chat with me! The whole idea was kicked-off by a colleague of mine, called Gerhard Göschl from Austria:...

No clue what the source is but if they are right, it is scary: DRG SSH Username and Password Authentication Tag Clouds Roger

Recently, we had an interesting discussion on Social Media. It actually all started with somebody sending a link around called http://pleaserobme.com/ to see who actually just said that they are not at home – information which can easily be gained...

This is quite a normal scenario: A zero-day pops up on the Internet by a security researcher. Immediately afterwards we see the first exploits appearing and being integrated into the different attack tools. Now, the race started: The vendor has to develop...

I am just preparing my trip to South Africa next week. Our Chief Security Advisor in South Africa, Khomotso Kganyago does an outstanding job keeping my busy. He put together a great agenda – I just hope I can cope with everything he is expecting from...

You hopefully know of the coolest thing we will launch this year: Kinect – our controller-less gaming experience for the XBox. I hope that I get the family budget approved for it, so that we can move from a Wii to an XBox. What I personally started to...

I know – Beta versions are not for production but as I just run production, I installed it on my work machine – just now! The first good news is: My blog still works: What’s new? Well, the best is you download it from here and explore yourself. There...

If you look at current discussions between cloud providers and customers, I see it too often that the customer leaves with the impression that the Cloud fixes all their problems. In fact – it does not. Too often I see the Cloud provider telling the customer...

I would just like to forward you to a blog post by Brad Smith as of today: Anti-Piracy Enforcement and NGOs . There is one statement I would like to quote: To prevent non-government organizations from falling victim to nefarious actions taken in the guise...