August 2007 - Posts

Our WGA Outage
There was a lot of press and blog posts about our recent WGA outage. If you are interested in the root cause and what actually happened, read So what happened? Roger Read More...
Posted 30 August 07 12:25 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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The Economy of Cyber-Crime
Since quite some time as Chief Security Advisor, I am working to support Law Enforcement. We are supplying training, giving technical support as needed and are staying in close contact as well as soon as we decide to file a criminal complaint. This happens Read More...
Posted 23 August 07 09:26 by rhalbh | 4 Comments   
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Not About Security but Cool – Search based on Silverlight
This has definitely nothing to do with security. But anyway, I thought it worthwhile, to write to blog post about that. I found that today: an absolutely cool new search engine based on our latest development called Silverlight. Simply have a look at Read More...
Posted 22 August 07 01:44 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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The Effect of Rebooting after an Update
This is interesting: Imagine the scenario where a huge amount of Windows computers all boot at the same time. What would happen? Well, probably quite some online services would get into troubles with the load they all of a sudden get as the rebooted machines Read More...
Posted 21 August 07 11:31 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Governments and e-Crime
I just read an interesting article BBC News. There seems to be a study by the UK government about e-crime and the fears of the citizens. The report cited a government survey that suggested more Britons feared internet crime than burglary. Times changed. Read More...
Posted 13 August 07 10:54 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Performance and Reliability Update for Windows Vista
Today we released a Pre-SP1 update for Windows Vista to address some issues we experienced after the initially release of Windows Vista: KB938194: An update is available that improves the compatibility and reliability of Windows Vista KB938979: An update Read More...
Posted 07 August 07 11:07 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Hackers getting Jobs in the Industry
This is a theme that is quite controversial since a long time: Is it a good idea to hire known hackers to improve security of your products? It was an interesting process to follow a time ago, when the guy who wrote Sasser (and brought down several networks), Read More...
Posted 02 August 07 10:04 by rhalbh | 3 Comments   
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