Roger's Security Blog

As Chief Security Advisor of Microsoft EMEA - lets share interesting security information

September, 2010

  • “Chat with me” works again!

    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:...
  • Kinect Opening a Whole New Way to Live?

    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...
  • Using Facebook to Promote an Event – Lecture in Johannesburg Next Week

    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...
  • Microsoft Security Essentials free for small businesses

    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...
  • The Eleven Rules of Life

    I know that they are very old but I did not know them. The oldest post I found was from 2004. People are saying that they are from Bill Gates but it seems that he used them during a speech in front of high-school students. I love them: RULE 1: Life...
  • What it takes to shut down a botnet

    It hits the press from time to time that somebody was successful taking down a botnet. We had some success as well with the Waledac Botnet Takedown . There is actually a good article on What it takes to shut down a botnet . When I was doing some bing...
  • Stuxnet: Future of warfare? Or just lax security?

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