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COFEE freely downloadable on the Internet?
You definitely have heard of COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor) which we make freely available to Law Enforcement through Interpol and NW3C. Now, the probably unavoidable happened and the tool leaked to the Internet. There was actually Read More...
Posted 10 November 09 06:44 by rhalbh | 2 Comments   
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COFEE now distributed via a NW3C as well
COFEE is a tool available to Law Enforcement only to capture online evidence with a little training as possible. The idea behind the tool is, that there is little need for high-trained staff to be available during e.g. house searches and that a normal, Read More...
Posted 16 October 09 11:15 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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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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Is there a Botnet building on MS08-067 exploits?
There are a lot of reports on a Botnet building on the back of exploits targeting MS08-067: New Windows worm builds massive botnet MS08-067 Vulnerability: Botnets Reloaded Bots exploiting Microsoft's latest RPC flaw Exploit-MS08-067 Bundled in Commercial Read More...
Posted 07 December 08 10:49 by rhalbh | 0 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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Lottery Scams – One of the Biggest Threat to End Users
I just want to tell you that I will retire. Yes, sure! I just won twice in a lottery. I just have to make sure that all the taxes and insurance policies are paid… You know them as well, don’t you? The mails you get to tell you that you won in a lottery Read More...
Posted 05 November 08 06:41 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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H1 OS Desktop Vulnerability Report – Get It Now
You might know Jeff Jones' work on the different vulnerability reports comparing different products and vendors. Our goal is to understand and measure our progress and see where we stand with regards to the industry. Today, Jeff release his OS Desktop Read More...
Posted 27 October 08 03:05 by rhalbh | 3 Comments   
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Once Again: A Scam using Microsoft’s Name to Install Malware
It happens pretty often but this time it seems to be wider spread then normal as our traffic with regards to this issue is higher than usual: There is a mail circulating pretending that it is coming from Steve Lipner here at Microsoft telling you to install Read More...
Posted 10 October 08 07:01 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Support for Law Enforcement and COFEE
Over the last few weeks there has been a lot of chatter about a tool we provide in a Beta version to Law Enforcement called COFEE: Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor. Let me give you some information on COFEE and put it into the proper context. Read More...
Posted 14 May 08 04:00 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Security Intelligence Report v4 – Live and Ready to be Read
As you (hopefully) know, we publish a Security Intelligence Report every 6 month and today we just released version 4. Let me give you some key findings before you go and read it J Basically the intent of the report is, to provide a comprehensive overview Read More...
Posted 22 April 08 12:13 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Update on our Piracy Strategy - Important Changes to WGA
From time to time people ask me about piracy and security. Let's start with piracy first. If you look at the 2007 Global Piracy Study by BSA , the numbers are frightening. Looking at EMEA, it starts with Moldova on 94% pirated software to Denmark with Read More...
Posted 04 December 07 05:00 by rhalbh | 3 Comments   
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