January 2009 - Posts

After Estonia now Kyrgyzstan
There is definitely proof that during war times, armies add a virtual component to the “real life” war. Additionally we have seen the attacks to Estonia, where nobody really knew where they originated from (I do not mean the country but whether a government Read More...
Posted 30 January 09 01:49 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Data Protection Day 2009
In early December I blogged about the Privacy Video Competition of the Data Protection Day. Today is the day: The winners just were announced. If you want to look at the videos (they are actually pretty cool): Watch all entries: http://eskills.eun.org/web/dprotection/gallery Read More...
Posted 28 January 09 05:16 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Piracy and Security (part 1.5)
Well, it is not really a follow up of my last post but goes into the same direction: A few years ago (I was still working in Switzerland) we ran an event where consumer could bring us their PC and we checked it for viruses and cleaned it where necessary. Read More...
Posted 27 January 09 12:04 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
Centralized Information About The Conficker Worm
Since I enabled Live chatting on my blog I got several questions about Conficker already, which I am happy to answer. However, Ziv from our Malware Protection Center now published an excellent blog post summarizing all the information about Conficker Read More...
Posted 23 January 09 09:15 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Comments on US-CERTs Advisory on Auto-Run
You might have seen the advisory of the US-CERT titled Microsoft Windows Does Not Disable AutoRun Properly – if not, you will definitely have seen one of the articles covering this issue and telling you that our advice on how to prevent Conficker is flawed. Read More...
Posted 22 January 09 03:41 by rhalbh | 3 Comments   
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Is there a Correlation between Stolen Software (Piracy) and Security/Patching?
Remark : A few weeks ago I made a post where I asked you about the correlation between Piracy and Security. I was talking about Piracy (stolen software) and got a lot of answers about Privacy (Data Protection) . So the following post is about stolen and Read More...
Posted 20 January 09 09:22 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Is Mozilla really the most secure Web Browser?
On http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/security/ Mozilla claims that Firefox is “The Safest Web Browser”. Unfortunately they leave a lot of their claims unsupported. This is something our Jeff Jones looks into. Since a lot of years Jeff looks into Read More...
Posted 19 January 09 10:14 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Conficker and Microsoft Anti-Malware Software
I want to add a few things as it is still not over: More and more enterprises are still hit. My last blog post showed you what you can do but I wanted to add two resources and a comment. The comment first: There were some discussions about our Anti-Malware Read More...
Posted 14 January 09 07:46 by rhalbh | 2 Comments   
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Additional Information on Conficker – MSRT removing Conficker
Over the last few days I blogged several times about Conficker and some of the posts caught quite some press attention. Especially when I talked about the Russian Roulette. Today I have very, very good news: The Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) Read More...
Posted 13 January 09 07:11 by rhalbh | 11 Comments   
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Russian Roulette with your Network (part 2)
My latest blog post on this matter generated quite some attention. Based on what happened since then, let me be clear on what I wanted to say (and still want to say): If you decide not to roll out a security update which is so critical that we decide Read More...
Posted 11 January 09 05:02 by rhalbh | 2 Comments   
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Apple releases Keyboardless Laptop
Wow, there are news, which we cannot cope with. Apple just announced the first laptop without keyboard : Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard and additionally the new Mac Tiny : They even talk about the Mac Nano in this video Enjoy Read More...
Posted 09 January 09 03:55 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Windows 7 Beta and Windows Live
You might have heard it: Yesterday at CES, Steve Ballmer made two very important announcements: The availability of Windows 7 Beta And the availability of the latest version of Windows Live So, start having a look at these two new products. It is worth Read More...
Posted 08 January 09 08:35 by rhalbh | 2 Comments   
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Network Access Protection Client for Mac and Linux
This is very exciting news: Unet , one of our NAP partners now delivers a NAP Client for Mac and Linux . Here are some very cool screenshots from their website: This is the Windows Client : Here for Mac : And finally for Linux : If you are running mixed Read More...
Posted 07 January 09 02:19 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Russian Roulette with your Network
First of all, before I really start, I hope that you all had a great start in 2009. Mine was actually pretty mixed. The good side was, how my year really started and what I saw when I looked out the window at January 1st (yes, I was on vacation skiing Read More...
Posted 04 January 09 01:17 by rhalbh | 17 Comments   
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