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The Africa Cable – A Chance for Africa! – A Threat for the Internet?
The development in Africa especially with the new broadband services to me is a huge chance for the whole continent. I just found this map on the next two years: source: IntelFusion Even though I have not been in Africa over the last few months, I heard Read More...
Posted 07 October 09 04:10 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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How much does a lost Laptop cost?
I stumbled upon this study today commissioned by Intel and executed by Ponemon. They key findings were: The average value of a lost laptop is $49,246. This value is based on seven cost components: replacement cost, detection, forensics, data breach, lost Read More...
Posted 27 April 09 02:14 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Finjan reports world's largest Botnet
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Posted 24 April 09 11:45 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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Additional Conficker Guidance
Yes, Conficker is far from being over. We still see a lot of infections. Therefore we decided to publish additional guidance for Conficker: Microsoft Conficker guidance page for IT Professionals and those focused on security in the enterprise: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/dd452420.aspx Read More...
Posted 07 February 09 11:42 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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Spying on Smartphones
I was recently at an event for Law Enforcement where one of the discussion points was how critical it is to protect Smartphones – actually it was more about how easy to would be to claim that my Smartphone was hacked and how proof can be found. That you Read More...
Posted 26 December 08 05:04 by rhalbh | 1 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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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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Get Safe Online – This Week
We see this concept all over Europe: There are National Security Awareness Days (or how ever they are called) in a lot of European countries. During these events, the industry (from software to banking to government to …) gets together to raise awareness Read More...
Posted 18 November 08 02:00 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Renting a Botnet on eBay
It is getting better over time: Now you can rent a Botnet on eBay to increase your hitrate on YouTube (By the way: Free shipping is included): http://cgi.ebay.com/Guaranteed-100-000-views-for-your-YouTube-video_W0QQitemZ220279609299QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item220279609299&_trkparms=72%3A1163|39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A12|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 Read More...
Posted 11 September 08 06:13 by rhalbh | 2 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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Selling Vulnerabilities and Ethics
Shoaib just blogged on Hacking & Security Community - Ethical or Unethical? . To start with: I do not claim that I know all about ethics and that there is only one view on ethics but I have a clear view on certain things. I blogged on this theme several Read More...
Posted 18 May 08 09:19 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Hacking Back?
Pretty often there is a discussion how far it is allowed to hack back. I was just reading an interesting post called Hackers Could Become The Hacked? which I wanted to share with you Roger Read More...
Posted 16 April 08 09:50 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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