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December 2006 - Posts

Happy new year and thank you to our abiding readers!

We wish all our readers a happy new Year, all the best for 2007 and please stay with us! :-) And if you're still looking for a good intent, then be an active part of our blog! With the best regards Urs Read More...
Posted Sunday, December 31, 2006 8:28 PM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

First Line of Defense Against Data Security Breaches: Employees

A recent survey of the IT departments in 461 U.S. organizations conducted by the Ponemon Institute reported that the average annual cost of managing insider threats to data security is $3.4 million per organization. Further, more than 78 percent of respondents Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 30, 2006 8:58 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Online Security Sessions from TechEd IT Forum Available

See the TechEd/IT Forum security sessions online (Referenz: Michael Howard): http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_howard/archive/2006/12/21/online-security-sessions-from-teched-it-forum-available.aspx Urs Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 9:35 AM by chsecblo | 78 Comments

Microsoft sees botnets as top '07 Net threat

"Botnets are really where it's at for serious cybercriminals, because of their concentrated power," said Kornblum, a senior attorney with Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Safety Enforcement team. "That power can be used for all sorts of malicious conduct on Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 9:33 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Controlling Communication with the Internet (Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista)

The Microsoft® Windows Vista™ operating system and the Windows® XP operating system with Service Pack 2 (SP2) include a variety of technologies that communicate with the Internet to provide increased ease of use and functionality. Browser and e-mail technologies Read More...
Posted Friday, December 22, 2006 10:59 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Jim Allchin on Windows Vista and protection from malware

Jim Allchins answer to the Sophos November report on Vista... Very interessting! http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2006/12/19/windows-vista-and-protection-from-malware.aspx Urs Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 21, 2006 4:16 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Vista: Group Policy Settings Reference

This spreadsheet lists the policy settings for computer and user configurations included in the administrative template files (admx/adml) delivered with Windows Vista (RTM build 6000). The policy settings included in this spreadsheet cover Windows Vista, Read More...
Posted Friday, December 15, 2006 8:52 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

The new generation of cyber criminals

A new research by the security company McAfee revealed that groups of cyber criminals are recruiting young computer students using tactics echoing those employed by the KGB during the cold war . The report, which is based on several contributions from Read More...
Posted Friday, December 15, 2006 8:40 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Buffer Overflows for Beginners (Whitepaper)

Not for begginers in C++, but as an example of how to produce/avoid vulnerable code... http://www.milw0rm.com/papers/123 Urs Read More...
Posted Friday, December 15, 2006 8:36 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Vista: Multiple Local Group Policy Objects (MLGPO)

How to use and setup multiple local GPOs in Vista: http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Managing-Windows-Vista-Group-Policy-Part2.html Urs Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 3:54 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Bitlocker on Vista - More than one partition!

On several occasions I stated the I expect that the Commandline-Interface of Bitlocker allows for encryption on more than one partition even on Windows Vista. We knew that it was coming for on Windows Server codename Longhorn. But on Windows Vista. Now, Read More...
Posted Friday, December 08, 2006 10:55 PM by chsecblo | 3 Comments

Dynamic Execution Prevention

Back with Windows XP SP2 we introduced a feature called Dynamic Execution Prevention (DEP). A technology to prevent an application to execute on the data memory. It basically makes use of the NX-flag of the CPU. I realized a few weeks ago, that my Vista Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 06, 2006 5:21 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

How big is the risk of Cyberterrorism?

There are always different opinions regarding the size of the threat of Cyberterrorism. This is the first time I read about it by a well-known independant organisation: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005591&source=rss_topic82 Read More...
Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 8:44 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Windows Vista - Crack is a Trojan

Wouldn't it be better to buy Windows Vista (did I tell you already that it rocks :-)?): http://apcstart.com/node/4737 Roger Read More...
Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 8:42 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments
 
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