• Careful, when Microsoft Support is calling

    I guess you are aware of the phone scams, when Microsoft support is calling you to tell you that you have an issue on your computer, which needs to be fixed. A Norwegian team was actually able to film that. The whole conversation with the "supporter"...
  • Security in 2013 – the way forward?

    Typically January is the month where we are asked to make predictions on the trends for the New Year. I do not like this as I am an engineer and not a fortune teller J . But there are things we know and things we definitely need to drive this year. I...
  • There it is – the security Silver bullet

    I love that: There is finally software that is free of bugs and completely secure. Hmm, this kind of reminds me of the world-famous marketing campaign of a big software company which called itself "unbreakable". However, let's be fair: There is an article...
  • Microsoft Account: Enable Two-Step Verification

    We could even talk about two-factor authentication in my opinion. The idea is, that whenever you logon from an untrusted PC, you will be asked to use a second factor (or step). In my case, which I show below, I use the Authenticator app on my phone, which...
  • Unique in the Crowd – False sense of Privacy

    This morning, I was reading a very interesting article called Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility . This is the abstract: We study fifteen months of human mobility data for one and a half million individuals and find that human...