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Security Intelligence Report: “Scareware” on the Raise
You know that we release our Security Intelligence Report twice an year: Today Version 6 is due. Let me try to give you an overview of the “highlights” of the report from my point of view: As I wrote in the title and as I blogged about this summer ( „Scareware“ Read More...
Posted 08 April 09 08:50 by rhalbh | 2 Comments   
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Bill would give Obama power to shut down Internet, networks during cyber attacks
Interesting: Bill would give Obama power to shut down Internet, networks during cyber attacks Roger Read More...
Posted 03 April 09 09:28 by rhalbh | 2 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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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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Technology in the Mumbai Attacks
One of the questions I often get is my position on Cyber-Terrorism. I doubt that there will be “isolated” technology-related terrorism. What we see much more is the use of high-tech during classical terrorism attacks. If you look at the recent terrorism Read More...
Posted 02 December 08 10:10 by rhalbh | 2 Comments   
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Attacks on MS08-067
As we were pushing on our Out-of-Band release earlier this month we tried to make you understand that immediate deployment is needed as the vulnerability is high risk. Otherwise we would not have gone out of band… Interestingly enough, we have not seen Read More...
Posted 26 November 08 02:09 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Security Risks in the Supply Chain?
At the moment I am travelling through the Gulf in order to launch the Security Intelligence Report v5 with local data. During one of the discussions today, a question was raised which I was thinking about quite some while (but – honestly - do not have Read More...
Posted 24 November 08 04:40 by rhalbh | 3 Comments   
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Estonia’s Cyber Security Strategy
Following the attacks on Estonia, they published a pretty interesting paper called Cyber Security Strategy by the Ministry of Defense in Estonia. One thing which I see again and again is that most of the people looking into such strategies conclude that Read More...
Posted 08 October 08 09:56 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Hacking is destroying economic growth
As usual (and probably as most of you) I started today scanning through my mails and RSS feeds for important and urgent information. By doing that, I stumbled across an article called Hackers and Nigeria vulnerability to cyber terrorism and I started Read More...
Posted 26 September 08 08:54 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Why I do not like e-Voting (Part 2)
As you might know, I blogged on e-Voting recently ( Why I do not like e-Voting ) and got quite some reactions. A few here but most of them privately. Most of you seem to like e-Voting. Now, think again! Look at this article here Evaluating the Security Read More...
Posted 09 September 08 06:31 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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SANS Commits $1 Million to Fight Cybercrime in Developing Countries
You know that I criticize SANS from time to time. Especially when it come to their handlers, I am convinced that they are creating the problem rather than solving it. This time I have to say that I am impressed as they are helping developing countries Read More...
Posted 24 May 08 04:25 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Analysis of the Estonian Attacks
I just read a paper on the political analysis of the Estonian Attack. If you are interested reading my post on my other blog (as the analysis is not really technical but interesting) there you go: Analysis of the Estonian Attacks Roger Read More...
Posted 21 May 08 06:25 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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How long does it take to hack a Power Plant?
I start to get scared – more and more. Back in September I blogged on Critical Infrastructure Protection – Live which shows what would happen if somebody would be able to tamper with power generators. Now, during RSA there was a guy called Ira Winkler Read More...
Posted 14 April 08 09:19 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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