• Protecting your disk with biometric devices?

    As you (hopefully) know, Windows Vista ships with a component we call Bitlocker - at least some of the Windows Vista versions do. Now, Bitlocker can be run with different way of protecting your keys: a TPM chip (basically a smartcard on your motherboard...
  • Mapping the Malicious Sites on the Web

    McAfee SiteAdvisor did an interesting study about the number of malicious sites per domain on the web: http://www.siteadvisor.com/studies/map_malweb_mar2007.html They have an interactive map that helps you to get an overview of the different threats...
  • Three Microsoft Announcements

    Last night Vinny Gullotto made some significant announcements at RSA Japan. At least for us they are significant: We published the second Security Intelligence Report. Now, you might ask, we this is significant. Think about the data sources, we...
  • Analysis of ANI vulnerability

    Michael Howard did a very good analysis of the ANI vulnerability and showed what we learned and where we will improve SDL (the Security Development Lifecycle). He posted that on our new SDL bog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sdl/archive/2007/04/26/lessons-learned...
  • An E-Mail-Bot Analysis

    Well, we all know that we shall not click on links in mails and stuff like that. Marc Russinovich did an interesting analysis of a pretty simple bot: http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2007/04/09/741440.aspx What I like as well is that...