The Internet population is expected to double from over 2 billion users today to more than 4 billion by 2020. We are likely to see some considerable advancements in technology, use and approach during this time as the Internet continues to evolve to better meet peoples’ needs. This amount of growth...

Last week, Jan Neutze and I participated in a dinner discussion on “Building a Secure Cyber Future” that the German Mission to the United Nations and the Atlantic Council organized for the members of the United Nations Group of Government Experts (GGE) on Developments in the field of Information...

Trending Security News This week in security news, stories report on the LinkedIn hack, big data, cyber legislation in process, and the consummerization of IT on BYOD trends. Here are some of the security news stories and our two blog picks this week. We focus on highlighting a variety of computer security...

The Internet now reaches a global population of more than two billion people, and the foundations of modern society are becoming digital. Research shows over the next few years the world will see an unprecedented growth in Internet users, devices and data, which will create vast opportunities for communications...

We earlier posted Scott Charney’s Keynote at RSA Conference 2012 , but that video did not include the 90 second “walk in” video that plays before Scott was introduced.  Several people have sent me email asking if they could get a copy of that video, so I’m making that available today. The 90 second...

Trending Security News This week security news stories focused on the LulzSec arrests and growing dissent among hackers with CNET reporting LulzSec arrests deal blow to hacker group and the New York Times reporting Arrests Sow Mistrust Inside a Clan of Hackers . The Times op-ed ran a story Tap into the...

In the first two parts of this series ( part 1 , part 2 ) I explored some of the ways that the threat landscape has evolved over the past decade and introduced a new special edition Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) called “ The evolution of malware and the threat landscape – a...

Trending Security News This week at the RSA U.S. 2012 Conference in San Francisco, IT security executives, government leaders and security researchers and hackers gathered together for keynotes and sessions covering a range of topics impacting the industry today. Security experts shared the latest trends...

Scott Charney’s RSA keynote this morning outlined evolved security, privacy and reliability strategies for cloud and big data. He encouraged industry and governments to adopt more holistic security strategies, create effective privacy principles and improve reliability of devices and services....

Last week the White House released its National Strategy for Global Supply Chain Security fact sheet. I found this to be a very important step forward in addressing one of the most complex challenges facing the United States, as well as, governments around the world. The strategy identifies twin goals...

Trending Security News The week ended with some ruffled feathers as Twitter announced it would allow some content in certain countries to be censored. The New York Times headlined its coverage as “ Twitter Announces Micro-Censorship Policy ” while the Mercury News reported that “...

The threat landscape in India has turned out to be more active than initially suspected. India has had a relatively low malware infection rate for some time, which seemed subdued for a region that has such a large high tech industry. But with the new data we recently released in the latest Microsoft...

Trending Security News Carrier IQ, and its diagnostic software that is embedded in millions of smartphones worldwide, dominated the security news this week with all the drama of a fast-paced television show. The story began when researcher Trevor Eckhart announced he had discovered the software on...

Trending Security News As people in the United States prepared to tuck into their Thanksgiving dinner, and tune out the incessant ads urging them to take advantage of the allegedly great shopping opportunities to follow in the form of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it was a perfect time to consider...

A recent blog post I wrote entitled Determining the Geolocation of Systems Infected with Malware , focused on some of the interesting changes in regional malware infection rates that occurred when we started using IP geolocation in the latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIRv11) . Figure...

Trending Security News Two major players—Facebook and Android—dominated security news this week. The attack on Facebook involved bombarding users with pornography and horridly violent images. Computerworld’s headline captured the impact the attack had on the online community: Facebook...

Trending Security News Another win for the good guys this week as a multi-year, international operation dubbed “Operation Ghost Click” resulted with the result of cyber criminals in their native Estonia. The investigation, led by the FBI, is credited with taking down an international click...

Trending Security News The big happening this week was the London Conference on Cyberspace where government and private sector leaders from around the world gathered to share ideas on how to best combat cyber threats and secure the Internet. Scott Charney, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Trustworthy...

I recently visited Brussels, where the European Union has its main base of operations. I had the opportunity to talk to numerous people there about the latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report containing data and insights on the cyber-threats Microsoft has observed specifically in the EU. Microsoft...

Trending Security News Governments around the world highlight the need for stronger cybersecurity as the Washington Post reports: Janet Napolitano: Hackers have ‘come close’ to major cyberattack . The New York Times carried the story Virus Infects Computers in Japan’s Parliament...

Trending Security News This past week saw the return of Stuxnet code in the form of a new intelligence gathering malware attack called Duqu. Network World ran a FAQ on Son of Stuxnet story describing what Duqu is and how it works while Dark Reading ran a story titled Waiting For 'Son Of Stuxnet' To...

This week Business Roundtable (BRT) released its report Mission Critical: A Public-Private Strategy for Effective Cyber Security . Microsoft is an active participant in BRT and we believe this report includes key insights that can help inform and advance cybersecurity discussions that are currently happening...

Trending Security News The big news in the computer industry this week—and the big news far beyond our industry—was the passing of the innovative genius Steve Jobs. The New York Times story Apple’s Visionary Redefined Digital Age highlights Steve’s personal and professional...

The product of human ingenuity and innovation, cyberspace now delivers a range of critical services to more citizens around the world than ever before. Yet, the online world as we know it stands at the threshold of unprecedented change. Being invited to speak at the EastWest Institute’s Worldwide...

The news from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) last week was sobering – if not overly surprising – as the department announced that during March an unnamed foreign intelligence service hacked into the computer system of a corporate contractor and obtained 24,000 Pentagon files during a single intrusion...