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“Black Screen of Death” Reports
Oh, wow – sometimes the power of social media, the blogs and the Internet can backfire. I guess in the meantime you have seen the claims by Prevx that approx. 80 Mio of PCs are affected by the Black Screen of Death problems supposedly caused by our November Read More...
Posted 01 December 09 09:16 by rhalbh | 3 Comments   
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Why you should not use P2P Windows 7 Builds
This is not about piracy and not about leaks and not about… I am waiting for the new RC build as you are. I am running an intermediate build between Beta and RC and would love to upgrade all my machines (including my MediaCenter) to RC. However, I refrain Read More...
Posted 30 April 09 02:36 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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You deployed MS09-008 – are you now protected?
You might have seen several reports that MS09-008 does not protect you from the vulnerabilities. We reviewed these claims and customers who have deployed MS09-008 are protected from the four vulnerabilities. If you want to have the details, you should Read More...
Posted 14 March 09 04:18 by rhalbh | 3 Comments   
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Two new Security Advisories
I just want to make sure you have seen it: There were some reports in the last day or two about targeted attacks on Excel. We are aware of these reports and are looking into this. In order to give you our assessment of the situation, we published Microsoft Read More...
Posted 24 February 09 08:56 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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UAC in Windows 7: The “Final” Decision
Jon and Steven released another blog post on UAC and explained their decision how to change things : They start with the risk of blogging: When we started the “E7” blog we were both excited and also a bit uneasy. The excitement is obvious. The unease Read More...
Posted 06 February 09 10:45 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Both Sides of the Windows 7 UAC Problem
I have to come back to the UAC problem again. I just read a good article from Larry Seltzer on eWeek.com: Both Sides of the Win7 UAC Problem I think it is one of the first one I read, which takes the emotions out of the discussion and tries to understand Read More...
Posted 05 February 09 11:34 by rhalbh | 3 Comments   
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The Windows 7 UAC “Vulnerability”
It is always interesting how some things spin off. The claimed UAC vulnerability in Windows 7 in one of those events. There are numerous blogs which claim that they found a huge vulnerability in Windows 7. The reason for that is that you can change the Read More...
Posted 03 February 09 10:03 by rhalbh | 22 Comments   
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Issue deploying updates with SCCM 2007
There seems to be some problems deploying the latest security updates with System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to SMS 2003 Agents. If you have any challenges with that or need more information, please see the just published advisory System Center Read More...
Posted 16 June 08 07:25 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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The “successful” attack on Cardspace
I guess you read it as it was pretty wide-spread in the press in the last few days: On the Insecurity of Microsoft's Identity Metasystem CardSpace . Well, is there any official Microsoft reaction to it? No, not yet and if you look a little bit more in Read More...
Posted 02 June 08 09:38 by rhalbh | 3 Comments   
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How to Hack Windows Vista
No, no. For sure. I am not going to give you advise how to hack – but look at this video: http://www.offensive-security.com/movies/vistahack/vistahack.html . I am always amazed about these kind of videos, which still surprise people. If look years back, Read More...
Posted 27 May 08 06:45 by rhalbh | 8 Comments   
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The recent IIS Attacks
There has been a lot of discussions in different blogs on the attacks on IIS servers. Microsoft Security Response Center has publised a post on it: Questions about Web Server Attacks Roger Read More...
Posted 29 April 08 10:04 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Investigating new public reports of Excel vulnerability
I guess, you have seen this but I just want to make sure: Vulnerability in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution . I would like to quote two things: Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel Read More...
Posted 16 January 08 08:13 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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How to React on Malware Attacks
Often the Small and Medium Businesses do not have IT resources available and it they have, the person is a IT Generalist. We try to help these kind of people to get structured and organized around the core security challenges. Therefore we published yesterday Read More...
Posted 12 July 07 09:29 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Windows Vista Recovery Console and the Password
Every once in a while I am left scratching my head. Over the last few days a few blog postings have popped up on a subject and I am at a loss to understand why. I’m not the only one – several security industry colleagues have been in touch and have said Read More...
Posted 14 June 07 09:32 by rhalbh | 4 Comments   
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Spam regarding IE7 installation
We got an increase on helpdesk calls in different subsidiaries with regards to a mail that is circulating: The mail claims to be coming from admin@microsoft.com and provides a link to an IE7 (Beta) download site. As always: This is spam and a fake. If Read More...
Posted 30 March 07 09:32 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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