February 2008 - Posts

Windows Server 2008 Security Guide released
You all showed great interest in the Windows Server 2008 Security Guide Beta. Now the "real" version is here. Get it on Technet Roger Read More...
Posted 29 February 08 05:02 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Securing My Infrastructure: Firewall
Well, this is a follow-up of my last posts about how I secure my environment. If you want to read the earlier posts of the series, see at the end of this post. So, we did the Risk Assessment, now, let's look a little bit closer into my perimeter. Technically Read More...
Posted 28 February 08 04:33 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Spammers are using Out-Of-Office Messages to Spam
It once more shows that the criminals are extremely creative in abusing features to do their business: See this article on Techworld Roger Read More...
Posted 27 February 08 10:50 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Hackers crack Bitlocker – really?
Sorry for being so late on that but I was enjoying the gorgeous weather in Switzerland and was skiing the last few days. There were claims end of last week that researchers "cracked" Bitlocker. One of the corresponding articles you can find in eWeek . Read More...
Posted 25 February 08 10:12 by rhalbh | 3 Comments   
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Dilbert on Security
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Posted 17 February 08 08:12 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Converter from Office Binary files to OpenXML
We are supporting a project on SourceForge to write an OpenSource translator for Office Binary files (doc, xls, ppt) to the OpenXML specification. See the initialization here . Roger Read More...
Posted 17 February 08 03:59 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Office Binary Document Formats: Specification
Last Friday we announced the availability of the Office Binary Format Specification (doc, xls, ppt) under the Open Specification Promise (OSP). From my point of view this is an additional step in our promise to support interoperability. Roger Read More...
Posted 17 February 08 03:57 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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TV-Interview during IDC Security event in Belgrade
As you have seen in my post The Fun of Travel , I was in Belgrade this week. It was the opening event for a tour by IDC in Central and Eastern Europe. IDC has a series of security events across Eastern Europe and I had the honor of having a keynote there. Read More...
Posted 14 February 08 08:44 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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The „fun“ of travel
Well, there are people who keep telling me that travelling is fun. Let me tell you a story (true, just happened to me today) – kind of business as usual. I am scheduled to speak at an IDC Event tomorrow in Belgrade (if you happen to be there, just come Read More...
Posted 12 February 08 08:19 by rhalbh | 2 Comments   
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What is a „Kill-Bit“?
We often refer the kill-bit in our Security Bulletins when it comes to ActiveX or COM-objects as a workaround. So, pretty often I get questions around the kill-bit. The Secure Windows Initiative (SWI) just started to publish a series of three posts about Read More...
Posted 09 February 08 12:59 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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How critical are the Undersea Cables?
OK, I think I need to take this up a little bit as well. Let's look into what happened over the last few days. I think up to now we ended up with five cables cut in the Middle East. So, there are a lot of theories who was actually damaging those cables. Read More...
Posted 08 February 08 11:05 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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EISAS – European InformationSharing and Alert System – an ENISA Feasibility Study
ENISA just recently published a pretty interesting study with the title EISAS – European Information Sharing and Alert System . I think that it is definitely worth looking into Roger Read More...
Posted 08 February 08 10:48 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Securing My Infrastructure: Risk Management
This is a follow-up of my last post about how I secure my environment. If you want to read the start of the series, see at the end of this post but please do not expect me to keep this rhythm J . Let me start with an introduction first: After my first Read More...
Posted 05 February 08 02:04 by rhalbh | 2 Comments   
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 RTMed!
It's here now and ready to go: We just announced that we RTMed Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 (two days earlier than expected) Read more here: Press Pass: http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/feb08/02-04VistaSP1MA.mspx Windows Vista Read More...
Posted 04 February 08 04:11 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Oracle’s answer with regards to Security Patches
You probably remember my post regarding Oracle DBAs rarely install patches . It was about a study where Sentrigo claimed (after having asked 305 people) that more than 2/3 of Oracle DBAs do not install the patches provided by Oracle. Now Oracle recently Read More...
Posted 04 February 08 03:42 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Dependant on the Internet? Not me!
I was reading this article this morning Internet failure hits two continents and was thinking about my dependence on the Internet. Well, outch: I am used to get the information I need everywhere! Always! Now! And I am used that the Internet is just here. Read More...
Posted 01 February 08 08:33 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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