• Windows Vista Recovery Console and the Password

    Every once in a while I am left scratching my head. Over the last few days a few blog postings have popped up on a subject and I am at a loss to understand why. I’m not the only one – several security industry colleagues have been in touch and have said...
  • Crime on SecondLife - a Surprise?

    There were recently different articles about crime on SecondLife . What is interesting to me is that a lot of these started to express their surprise.In certain blogs I read statements like: SecondLife is so cool, how could somebody even think of this...
  • OEMs: Join in to "Secure by Default"

    I recently purchased a PC for my parents and then started to install it – well actually used the OEM installation to get it up and running with Windows Vista Home Premium. I was pretty surprised how easy it was to actually have a running system (I usually...
  • Digital Phishnet Conference 2007

    Last week the first Digital Phishnet Conference in Europe took place in Berlin. Basically Digital Phishnet is an initiative to help to exchange information about Phishing-Sites in order to help enforcement. This is the core mission: Supporting Law Enforcement...
  • Security Trends on our Malware Portal

    I recently blogged about three major announcements we made: http://blogs.technet.com/rhalbheer/archive/2007/04/25/three-microsoft-announcements.aspx On that I got some comments (public and private) and some wishes. Thank you all forthis feedback. I...