October 2007 - Posts

The Complexity of the “Spyware Landscape”
A pretty interesting article on Spyware (and a lot of other "beasts"): The Increasing Complexity of the New Spyware Landscape Roger Read More...
Posted 31 October 07 03:47 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Defend the Flag Workshop at Deepsec
There is a cool workshop at Deepsec in Vienna mid of November, which is called "Defend the Flag". The idea is that you will be trained for a day and during the second day, you have to configure your systems and they will be attacked. The one that holds Read More...
Posted 30 October 07 09:34 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Microsoft has the shortest Security Update Development cycle
Have you had a look at Symantec's latest Threat Report? It can be found here: http://www.symantec.com/content/de/de/about/downloads/PressCenter/ISTRXII_Main.pdf I briefly read through it and one statement caught my eye: Page 54: Of the five operating Read More...
Posted 26 October 07 04:32 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Security Intelligence Report v3 is Live!
I hope you read my yesterday's blog on the RSA story (if not, it is here ). I mentioned the Security Intelligence Report there. SIR is actually live in its third version, covering what we saw January to June 2007. Let me point out some "highlights": Vulnerability Read More...
Posted 24 October 07 01:54 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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RSA Europe: Are you ready for security and privacy?
Do you remember? In January 2002, Bill Gates sent a famous mail to all the Microsoft employees and announced Trustworthy Computing . Since then it became part of our DNA. The interesting thing to me is, that the four pillars of TwC remained the same (except Read More...
Posted 23 October 07 12:00 by rhalbh | 3 Comments   
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Are you ready for Unified Communications?
Today, Bill Gates sent out a mail to roughly 300'000 subscribers of the Executive Mail . This time he does a recap of his Unified Messaging mail which he sent out in 2006 and gives an overview of the advances we had since then. To name just a few: Office Read More...
Posted 17 October 07 10:02 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation
There is an interview on MSNBC with Bill where the readers could actually send the questions. It is all about their foundation and pretty impressive to read: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21212128/site/newsweek/ Roger Read More...
Posted 11 October 07 04:36 by rhalbh | 3 Comments   
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Fighting Spam Internationally
There are different ways how to deal with Spam. One is, to eat it (yes, I know it is an old joke but I still like it…) – see the " official SPAM website " J If it comes down to e-mail SPAM, the problem is different: Most of the ISPs today are using technical Read More...
Posted 10 October 07 11:29 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Windows Cardspace – the sleeping beauty
One of the problems I often see with some of our products is that they actually have some great features but not enough people know about them. Sometimes I am meeting a customer and he or she is telling me that they are just running an evaluation for Read More...
Posted 03 October 07 03:30 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Anti-Phishing-Training
Wow! Ever thought that you are a phishing-expert? Ever tried to train your users? Carnegie Mellon University developed a game which trains you or tests your knowledge (where ever you are). I like it: http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/antiphishing_phil/ Roger Read More...
Posted 02 October 07 06:55 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Analysis of the cyber-capabilities of AlQaeda
I blogged already several times about Cyber-Terrorism. I think it is important to try to keep the pulse of these developments and to understand what the terrorists are capable of doing. There is an article about a recent event, where somebody tried to Read More...
Posted 01 October 07 09:55 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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