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How to Do an Online Background Check for Free
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over 2 years ago
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Well, basically this title attracted my attention: How to Do an Online Background Check for Free . I had to try it with myself. So I started, following the sites and suggestions in the article: I clicked on the first link and landed on 9 Sites That Find...
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Scott Charney at RSA this year
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It is kind of a tradition that Scott Charney, our Corporate Vice President for Trustworthy Computing, is speaking at RSA . If you look back, he always showed the evolution of Trustworthy Computing and spoke about e.g. End to End Trust and other concepts...
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Phone Security: Lose your Passwords on iPhone in a few minutes
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over 2 years ago
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Jailbreaking is probably one of the biggest problems on phones – mainly because it allows easy access to your secrets. Fraunhofer Institute in Germany showed just that: Therefore, do not think that your iPhone is secure. Make sure you at least remote...
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Security Impact of the Nokia/Microsoft Announcement
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over 2 years ago
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I am definitely looking forward to the collaboration Nokia/Microsoft and it seems to have gotten quite some chatter on the web. Interestingly, F-Secure looked into it as well: They looked at the app-model and the sandboxing technology in Windows Phone...
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Internet Explorer 9, Release Candidate available
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over 2 years ago
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You might have seen it: IE9 RC is now ready for download. I am using IE9 since quite a while and it really, really rocks. Install it from here . Roger
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The Wild West on the Internet… A Crime Story
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over 2 years ago
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A fairly interesting thriller on the Internet. It just shows that we need better ways to collaborate between private and public sector and to hunt criminals: How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price Scary… Roger
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Cybercrime: A Recession-Proof Growth Industry
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over 2 years ago
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That’s obvious as people probably tend to want to trust more, the worse their situation is. Nevertheless it is even more disgusting going after the desperate! Cybercrime: A Recession-Proof Growth Industry Roger
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How much it takes to get on the No-Fly List
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over 2 years ago
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I questioned the value of No-Fly lists since quite a while as I read all these story about how people get on the list but this is kind of the strangest story I ever heard. A UK Immigration officer put his own wife on the No-Fly list as he wanted her to...
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Quit Worrying About Cloud Security?
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over 2 years ago
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Well, it is not THAT easy but at least there are people starting to claim that it is not as hard as it seems to be sometimes. I stumbled across the following article: Why you can quit worrying about cloud security (thank you Jim), which makes a lot of...
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Fighting Crime and Protecting Privacy–a Contradiction?
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over 2 years ago
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I was reading an article today called Does Your ISP Care About Protecting Your Privacy? . An interesting question. The ISPs in the article are even thinking of VPNing all the traffic to avoid the necessity for keeping the logs (or probably better, NATing...
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Blocking Social Media–What is Your View?
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over 2 years ago
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If you are reading my blog posts regularly, you might have seen that I am not a big friend of blocking social media at the edge. When I talk with customers about why they are blocking it, I usually get these type of answers: People are spending...
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Moving my blog!!
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Well, I will continue to announce this, until I see the hitrate decline At the moment, I am running two blogs. This one and the one on http://www.halbheer.info/security which both contain more or less the same content. I am still planning to move over...
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Are You Focused On The Wrong Security Risks?
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over 2 years ago
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There is an good article on CIO Central: Are You Focused On The Wrong Security Risks? An interesting discussion and I part agree that we have to challenge the way we look at the security risks. I would even broaden the questions he raises. When I talk...
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Phishing still very effective: 35 cards in 5 hours
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over 2 years ago
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I just read this blog post by ESET laboratories: Inside a phishing attack: 35 credit cards in 5 hours . They analyzed a very poorly designed phishing attack and found that: The first access to the site was on January 20 at 10:01 pm (as seen in picture...
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From the Inside: Our CISO on Cloud Security
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over 2 years ago
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You are worried about compliance and risks in the cloud? Well, listen to our CISO and see his views: The promise of cloud computing is great and yet this new computing paradigm presents new challenges in the area of information security. In this session...
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How to Build a CERT
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over 2 years ago
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Often, when governments look into Critical Infrastructure Protection, they start to build a CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) or a CSIRT (Computer Security and Incident Response Team). The questions then always comes up: How do you do that? ENISA...
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Moving Blogs
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Quite a while ago, I started a second blog outside our technet site. One of the reasons was that I realized that a lot of people who are interested in the policy, political, process dimension of security do not read a blog on technet as it is the environment...
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Conclusion on UNODC: Open Ended Expert Group on Cybercrime
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I told you that I will attend the UNODC: Open Ended Expert Group on Cybercrime , which is now slowly coming to an end. Let me draw a few conclusions on the meeting. It was not the first UN meeting I attended and – depending on the audience – the discussion...
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Attacks on Application Level
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over 2 years ago
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That the attacks move up the stack is really nothing new. However, it increases the challenge to secure your environment as you have to take Patch Management all the way. I blogged on that several times already e.g.: Patch Management, a key step towards...
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UNODC: Open Ended Expert Group on Cybercrime
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From tomorrow on, UNDOC invited for an Open Ended Expert Group on Cybercrime in Vienna. I am really interested in seeing hoe these discussions will go. If – by any chance – you are there as well, please ping me and we will have a chat. Otherwise, I will...
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Real Physical Security
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over 2 years ago
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I saw this this morning – have a great weekend: Roger
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Cybercrime as a Service–Our Future?
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over 2 years ago
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It is not really surprising that the criminals will leverage the economy of Cloud Computing for their illegal purposes. Especially activities, which consume a lot of processor power will be moved to the Cloud – like any other business. Some way back,...
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Dilbert on Cloud Computing
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over 2 years ago
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The worst thing is, that there is some truth in that: At least, this is what I see often, before I talk to customers Roger
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Exciting News from the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas
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over 2 years ago
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After the launch of different products for the consumer, businesses and in the Cloud, Steve Ballmer opened CES today in Las Vegas. You should look at it. There are a few very cool announcements: Or directly from the CES webpage . Roger
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Targeted Attacks: The Biggest Risk in 2011?
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over 2 years ago
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Since quite a while, I am saying that targeted attacks are the risks, which really keep me up at night. BBC just posted a similar article: Cyber-sabotage and espionage top 2011 security fears I think that this is a real issue and very hard to fight! Roger
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