March 2008 - Posts

Still undecided about Vista?
To Vista or not to Vista – a question quite some enterprises are asking these days. Mark Russinovich recently hosted a roundtable to discuss Vista deployments including its challenges with different people: Customers who have already deployed as well Read More...
Posted 31 March 08 01:44 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Open Government Data Principles
In December about 30 government advocates assembled to decide on - what they called - Open Government Data Principles. Even though the group was very US focused (if you look at the list of participants ), the outcome is very interesting. I quote the main Read More...
Posted 27 March 08 01:14 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Pricelist for Botnets
It is not new and I blogged several times on it: If you own a botnet, you can make quite some money. As the Law Enforcement is going after the bot herder I would not suggest you to enter this business, nevertheless. I just read an article today with a Read More...
Posted 27 March 08 09:11 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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SPAM moving to SMS?
Well, I do not hope and I do not expect it to. Why? Well, mobile text messages are not free – mails are (at least kind of). Nevertheless, if the "vulnerability" is within the mobile provider, all of a sudden, SMS could become a real SPAM channel. Recently Read More...
Posted 26 March 08 09:43 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Safari to crash XP
Not only that it is "forced" on the clients – it seems even to crash Windows XP machines: Safari 3.1 Crashes On Windows XP, Users Complain – and now I stop complaining Roger Read More...
Posted 25 March 08 11:01 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Sun and Apple Updates – A Sheer Nuisance!! – Part 2
Quite some of you read my initial post on that – and I like the comments I got. Now, it seems that I am not the only one being angry: I quote from What Microsoft can teach Apple about software updates For the record, I think Apple is dead wrong in the Read More...
Posted 25 March 08 04:28 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Vulnerability in Microsoft Jet Database Engine (Jet) Could Allow Remote Code Execution
I usually do not blog on Advisories we release as I guess that you subscribed to the corresponding alerts. If not, you should do that now here . This one is a little bit different as I know that quite some people within Microsoft are working during Easter Read More...
Posted 22 March 08 12:26 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Sun and Apple Updates – A Sheer Nuisance!!
As you all know: I rarely blog on competitors and – even rarer – blog about them negatively. But this time I definitely had to: As most of us I have QuickTime on my PC as well as a Java VM. I know that there are alternatives for this software and the Read More...
Posted 19 March 08 11:26 by rhalbh | 9 Comments   
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New Technology ending Hardware Piracy?
I just read an interesting article on a new hardware technology that – the patent owner hope – would end piracy on Integrated Circuits. Obviously, piracy s not only a software problem…… New Tech Fights Chip Piracy With Virtual Lock and Key Roger P.S: Read More...
Posted 16 March 08 02:53 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Technology to Circumvent Censorship
Well, I was thinking hard whether I shall blog on that or not. But then a friend of mine brought up a valid point: I am always claiming that a lot of issues on the Internet are missing a public debate yet, what is more important - and this might well Read More...
Posted 15 March 08 11:52 by rhalbh | 3 Comments   
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A New Model to Taylor your Testing
I guess you know the problem: You ran a development project and have to test the code (if the testing phase did not already have to be cut significantly as you ran out of time – too often seen with projects at customer sites…). A German research now has Read More...
Posted 15 March 08 11:01 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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New Privacy-Technology enables new (private) Business Models
We announced it recently: Be acquired the U-Prove technology by a company called Credentica and quite some key members of Credentica have joined us. When we announced it, my excitement was – well – limited. It was another company we bought. But when I Read More...
Posted 14 March 08 02:49 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Analysis of Cyber-Terror
The US Military just released a pretty interesting in-depth article on Cyber-Terrorism and the different aspects of it. Even though it has a little bit more than 40 pages, it is worth reading: Cyber Operations and Cyber Terrorism Roger Read More...
Posted 13 March 08 12:21 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Steve Ballmer on next revolution in computing
Over the next time (actually starting at RSA) you will hear more from us how we see the future of security. You should watch out for Craig Mundie's keynote there. But last Monday Steve Ballmer had a speech at the CeBIT in Germany on the next revolution Read More...
Posted 06 March 08 07:39 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is available
We just made Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 available. This is especially important if you are developing web applications in order to test them. Os, here are the important links: IE 8 Beta 1 Readiness Toolkit Channel 9 discussion on IE8 features Channel Read More...
Posted 05 March 08 08:22 by rhalbh | 3 Comments   
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External Collaboration Toolkit for Sharepoint
Often exchanging information and collaborating with external people is a big challenge. Therefore we just published a Solution Accelerator called External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint Roger Read More...
Posted 03 March 08 11:09 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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How to handle a security crisis
Do you know that problem: You are at the beginning of a security crisis and should be able to give an official statement but PR (or whoever is responsible to draft this statement) is not ready yet – but you really, really, urgently need something? Well, Read More...
Posted 03 March 08 04:59 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Infoworld on Windows Server 2008 Security and Privacy
We launched Windows Server 2008 (as you hopefully know J ). Infoweb published an article on Windows Server 2008 Security and Privacy: http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/02/27/Microsoft-touts-Longhorn-security_1.html Roger Read More...
Posted 01 March 08 05:27 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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DHS Security Level on your Webpage
A blog reader sent me a mail informing me that he wrote a small application that links the DHS security level to your webpage. I added it to my news section and it looks pretty interesting. If you want to do that as well, here is the link: http://www.milestactical.com/hlsa.html Read More...
Posted 01 March 08 05:24 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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