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Is the “Managed Desktop” the ultimate solution?
When I talk about the big trends, one of them is about the call of the younger generation for more flexibility. Flexibility in this context is about where you work, when you work and how you organize yourself. If you take this as a given, you have to Read More...
The Future of the Internet in 2020
This is a pretty interesting survey: Future of the Internet III: How the Experts See It Here are the key findings: The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the internet for most people in the world in 2020. The transparency of people and Read More...
Posted 25 August 09 06:58 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Gazelle – the secure Web browser of the future?
This is an interesting paper from Microsoft Research. Now, before you read it: This is research and be no means a commitement to develop it for IE 9. The Multi-Principal OS Construction of the Gazelle Web Browser Roger Read More...
Posted 20 February 09 09:52 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Important Privacy Announcement
I  wanted to make you aware of a very important announcement we made earlier today. As you know, Trustworthy Computing is all about Security,  Reliability and Business Practices. Our house has a fourth pillar -  Privacy - which we view Read More...
Posted 09 December 08 07:54 by rhalbh | 4 Comments   
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Security – One of the Key Reasons to Migrate to Windows Vista (part 2)
In my last post , I briefly touched on different features of Windows Vista, which I think are important with regards to the view on Windows XP vs. Windows Vista. Let’s take a different approach now: I recently was on a panel in Eastern Europe where I Read More...
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...
“Stacked against hacks” in World Finance
I recently had the pleasure to be part of an article in World Finance called Stacked against hacks Visit the virtual version here and go to page 60 and 61 Roger Read More...
Posted 20 October 08 09:44 by rhalbh | 2 Comments   
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Challenging the 10 Immutable Laws of Security
You probably know them: The 10 Immutable Laws of Security , we published I think around 2000 and they were often cited. They are: Law #1: If a bad guy can persuade you to run his program on your computer, it's not your computer anymore Law #2: If a bad Read More...
Posted 10 October 08 07:49 by rhalbh | 0 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...
SAFECode released „Fundamental Practices for Secure Software Development”
SAFECode just released a new paper called Fundamental Practices for Secure Software Development . This is a collaboration of different people from different companies (SAP, EMC, Symantec, Juniper, Nokia and Microsoft). As you probably know, SAFECode is Read More...
Some Thoughts on UAC
I blogged several times already on UAC as this has been (and partly still is) a very disputed security feature in Windows Vista (which I still support!). I just found today a not really new blog post on UAC, which I think is worth reading. It is from Read More...
Why you should move to IPv6 – NOW!
Honestly, if you are not living in China it might not be that urgent but read yourself: China running out of IP addresses Roger Read More...
Posted 26 September 08 08:55 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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Information Accountability
I just read a pretty interesting paper; you should have a look at. The interesting thing is – from my point of view – the paper is close to your End to End Trust paper we published in March. What I want to say with that is, that it seems that several Read More...
Posted 24 September 08 08:05 by rhalbh | 0 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...
Announcing the Exploitability Index
At Blackhat we announced an important change to our Security Bulletins becoming effective during the October release. One of the requests we often heard talking to our customers is, that they would like to get better information on how hard it is to exploit Read More...
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