Here’s what’s in my junk mail folder today: What is up with all that? Apparently I sent a payment to myself, I initiated another payment to myself, I am a user of myself who’s received exclusive offers for January, and I received a payment from myself...

I’ve been mentioning this frequently during my talks in the last 12 months: that accidental or malicious data modification is yet something else we need to defend against. Richard Bejtlich wrote last year about attack progressions , and this year summarized...

Here at Microsoft we have an active internal discussion group where most security-minded folk hang out. The topic of data destruction came up recently, it’s actually a lot more difficult than most people think. CIPHER /W and SDELETE do a reasonable job...

Yesterday, Donnie Hamlett, a Microsoft core infrastructure optimization specialist, gave a webcast and played a video of my TechEd presentation on virtualization and security. Some of the viewers had questions, and I offered to Donnie that they could...

An  interesting comment recently appeared on my older post about whether or not to use antimalware software. Peter van Dam wondered whether scheduled scans are really necessary, given that anti-malware products scan files as they enter (and sometimes...