Since Blaster/Slammer, namely since the start of Trustworthy Computing I am working at Microsoft in a publically facing security role. I went through all the blaming and had to take all the heat of what we did wrong and how bad we are – and I admitted...

David Litchfield ran a scan on the Internet for the typical SQL Server and Oracle ports. It is unbelievable that he found approx. 490'000 servers on the Internet – unprotected and often un-patched. On unsupported version levels, on unsupported Service...

You know that I rarely did trip reports in the past. I am personally convinced that you do not want to read, what I had for breakfast in Barcelona. But this trip was different. When I told the people around me that I will be travelling to Nigeria I got...

I am in the position of the Chief Security Advisor in Europe, Middle East and Africa since February 1 st . Since then I am blogging here (before that I ran together with Urs the Swiss Security Blog). The hits per post rose over the first 6-7 months but...

Well, slowly the year is coming to an end – 10% to go J . This is the time where everybody is looking back and – additionally – tries to look into the Crystal Ball to understand how 2008 could be. Interestingly enough, I just had the discussion about...