The exploitation of vulnerabilities specific to country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) registries has become an increasingly common problem, especially in relatively small markets around the world. A ccTLD is an internet domain registry generally used or reserved for a country, a sovereign state, or a...

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...

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...

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....

The White House this week announced that Scott Charney , corporate vice president of Microsoft Corp.’s Trustworthy Computing Group, was selected to join the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) – a presidential advisory board composed of leaders in various key industries...

Today, I would like to call your attention to a new paper from Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Trustworthy Computing Scott Charney called “ Rethinking the Cyber Threat – A Framework and Path Forward .” In my own opinion, this is a very important paper for industry and government, because the deconstruction...

I thought it might be useful to share some of the key resources related to Microsoft news at RSA to make it easy to find.  Will update with more details later.   RSA Conference 2010 Microsoft RSA Presspass Newscenter: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/rsa/ Press materials: http://www...