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January 2007 - Posts

Time to say hello - and goodbye

Well, this is a strange day for me: Today in Bern we had the biggest launch ever in Microsoft's history: We launched Windows Vista and Office 2007 for General Availability - yes, you can now get one at your local store! It is there. So time to say "hello"! Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2007 10:01 PM by chsecblo | 2 Comments

Security Features vs. Convenience

"One of the most basic conundrums in computer security is the constant trade-off between security and usability. At the end of the day, if security is too complicated to use, then it simply won't be used. Even if a feature offers a good level of security Read More...
Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 3:20 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Fundamental Computer Investigation Guide For Windows

A pretty interesting document in my opinion. The interesting thing is, we are stating that "this guide is for IT Professionals in the United States" - well, it is publicly available and interesting for everybody involved in forensics. You can download Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 8:59 AM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

Evaluating Commercial Counter-Forensic Tools

This paper reviews the performance of six counter-forensic tools and highlight operational shortfalls that could permit the recovery of significant evidentiary data. In addition, each tool creates a distinct operational fingerprint that an analyst may Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 20, 2007 3:13 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Comparing Java and .NET Security: Lessons Learned and Missed

Very interesting and an amazing result... ;-) Urs http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~nrp3d/papers/computers_and_security-net-java.pdf Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:02 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

The Surprising Security Threat: Your Printers...

Networked printers — yes, printers — can open your corporate network to malicious attacks. They need security patches. See the article by Deb Radcliff: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=277746&pageNumber=1 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:42 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Why Windows Vista is not affected by MS07-004

There is an extremely interesting short statement by Michael Howard regarding MS07-004: The coding bug is in Vista but it does not have any effect: Read yourself: http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_howard/archive/2007/01/10/why-windows-vista-is-unaffected-by-the-vml-bug.aspx Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:26 AM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

Today's Update (or what happened to the missing ones)

There was quite some chatter about the "missing updates" for tonight and the question about what happened to them. Well, the answer is fairly simple: Our advanced notification is the best knowledge we have about the forthcomming update-release cycle the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 09, 2007 9:23 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Microsoft Windows Vista Security Guide

It's there for a longer time, but I still get many requests about it's avaiability... So, here it is: The Windows Vista Security Guide! http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/security/guide.mspx Direct document download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A3D1BBED-7F35-4E72-BFB5-B84A526C1565&displaylang=en Read More...
Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 1:47 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Vista: A best practice guide on how to configure BitLocker

How to configure BitLocker and how to get BitLocker to rock in Windows Vista using best-practice methods. (Found on windowssecurity.com) http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Best-practice-guide-how-configure-BitLocker-Part1.html Urs Read More...
Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 1:32 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Windows Live OneCare (v1.5) is released to manufacturing...

"Welcome back to all those that were on vacation, and a happy new year. As you may have noticed from relative inactivity in my blogging, it’s been quite a hectic time here on the product development team. We’ve been hard at work on our next release, and Read More...
Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 1:19 PM by chsecblo | 1 Comments
 
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