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The Microsoft Security Update Guide
I know that these news are not new but I was away when we announced it and to me it is important enough to take it up afterwards. Over the last few months we worked on a document explaining everything which is going on around an Update Tuesday. So, what Read More...
Posted 13 August 09 02:30 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Patch Management, a key step towards compliance!
As you might have read, I recently blogged about my infrastructure and the future of a platform towards a better management of compliance – honestly, I actually played with our latest technology . I wrote about Deploying PKI Time Sync on Virtual DCs Now, Read More...
Posted 22 May 09 02:18 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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MS09-017: An out-of-the-ordinary PowerPoint security update
Our Security Research and Defense team blogged on the PowerPoint security update we published on Tuesday. There are a few things which were not “business as usual”: The update for the Windows version of PowerPoint went out before the Mac version. The Read More...
Posted 13 May 09 03:10 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Patch Management – Cover the whole 9 yards
I pretty often have discussions about Patch Management with our customers. I think it is a very important discussion as I see too many customers not patching at all. However, taking the shining examples – they often look at the Microsoft product suite Read More...
Posted 26 March 09 09:04 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Qtel’s Guide to a Faster Internet Experience
I like that: As you probably know, I did a tour through the Gulf when we launched the Security Intelligence Report last year. One of the reasons was that we know that the Gulf has a pretty high malware infection rate. You can read this in the corresponding Read More...
Posted 09 March 09 10:33 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Would a properly managed IT have withstood Conficker?
Before I start here: Let’s be clear that I will not say (and will never say) that if a customer was infected with Conficker he had a poorly managed network! I had a lot of discussions over the course of time about the reasons for customers being infected. Read More...
Posted 04 March 09 03:37 by rhalbh | 1 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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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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98% unpatched – and I am one of them :(
Well, you saw my post earlier this week on the 1.96% of PCs being updated according to Secuina . Well, as time does, I decided to install this tool as well to look at it. I did an initial scan on my home PC and this was the outcome: Outch, this hurts Read More...
Posted 05 December 08 03:57 by rhalbh | 4 Comments   
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Only 1.91% of PCs are patched!
Well, honestly, I am not completely clear how statistically relevant this data point is. I just read it in a secunia blog where they published figures of users of their free solution. This is data of the last few weeks and looks into the results of the Read More...
Posted 04 December 08 05:59 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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Servers still not patched
I just read an article this morning on Linux servers under the Phalanx gun: A problem with people, not code . There were quite some things which made me think when I read it: There was a statement in there, which I – obviously – did not like at all: Linux Read More...
Posted 29 August 08 12:20 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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