June 2007 - Posts

Crime on SecondLife - a Surprise?
There were recently different articles about crime on SecondLife . What is interesting to me is that a lot of these started to express their surprise.In certain blogs I read statements like: SecondLife is so cool, how could somebody even think of this. Read More...
Posted 28 June 07 12:08 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Europe, Middle East and Africa after 100 days
Before I actually start with content, let me briefly give you some background: I took the role of the Chief Security Advisor (CSA) in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) after having been 5 years the CSA in Switzerland. I went through all the nice challenges Read More...
Posted 24 June 07 08:36 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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6 Month Windows Vista Vulnerability Report
Jeff just posted his next version of the Windows Vista Vulnerability report to his blog. He is now looking at the first six months of Windows Vista and how the vulnerabilities developed compared to Windows XP and some other Operating Systems. Happy reading: Read More...
Posted 21 June 07 07:07 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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OEMs: Join in to "Secure by Default"
I recently purchased a PC for my parents and then started to install it – well actually used the OEM installation to get it up and running with Windows Vista Home Premium. I was pretty surprised how easy it was to actually have a running system (I usually Read More...
Posted 21 June 07 11:56 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Security Standards Portal
ITU just launched a pretty interesting portal: If you were ever looking for a standard in the security space (not only ITU standards) go and see this portal: ICT Security Standards Roadmap Roger Read More...
Posted 19 June 07 09:54 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Digital Phishnet Conference 2007
Last week the first Digital Phishnet Conference in Europe took place in Berlin. Basically Digital Phishnet is an initiative to help to exchange information about Phishing-Sites in order to help enforcement. This is the core mission: Supporting Law Enforcement Read More...
Posted 17 June 07 07:36 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Windows Vista Recovery Console and the Password
Every once in a while I am left scratching my head. Over the last few days a few blog postings have popped up on a subject and I am at a loss to understand why. I’m not the only one – several security industry colleagues have been in touch and have said Read More...
Posted 14 June 07 09:32 by rhalbh | 4 Comments   
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Fake Microsoft Security Bulletin
It happens again: There seems to be a faked message giving users the impression that we are sending it out taking into account that it is “Update Tuesday” tomorrow. And they are still successful! Just to stress it once again: We are never, never, never, Read More...
Posted 12 June 07 09:38 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Antiforensics
A pretty interesting article about a guy trying to find a network compromise - he actually did, knowing that there is close to no chance to find the criminal behind the attack. By the way, the criminal only got access to two years worth of credit card Read More...
Posted 05 June 07 09:19 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Bill's 1987 Prediction on 2007
Actually I did not want to blog about this, but when I read this article, I had to. This is a quote from an article written in 1987 making people predict the future - 2007. Look at Bill's prediction and enjoy: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/116108.asp?source=rss Read More...
Posted 04 June 07 08:00 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Security Trends on our Malware Portal
I recently blogged about three major announcements we made: http://blogs.technet.com/rhalbheer/archive/2007/04/25/three-microsoft-announcements.aspx On that I got some comments (public and private) and some wishes. Thank you all forthis feedback. I linked Read More...
Posted 01 June 07 07:47 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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