• Hackers crack Bitlocker – really?

    Sorry for being so late on that but I was enjoying the gorgeous weather in Switzerland and was skiing the last few days. There were claims end of last week that researchers "cracked" Bitlocker. One of the corresponding articles you can find in eWeek...
  • How critical are the Undersea Cables?

    OK, I think I need to take this up a little bit as well. Let's look into what happened over the last few days. I think up to now we ended up with five cables cut in the Middle East. So, there are a lot of theories who was actually damaging those cables...
  • Dilbert on Security

    Enjoy: Roger
  • Oracle’s answer with regards to Security Patches

    You probably remember my post regarding Oracle DBAs rarely install patches . It was about a study where Sentrigo claimed (after having asked 305 people) that more than 2/3 of Oracle DBAs do not install the patches provided by Oracle. Now Oracle recently...
  • Securing My Infrastructure: Risk Management

    This is a follow-up of my last post about how I secure my environment. If you want to read the start of the series, see at the end of this post but please do not expect me to keep this rhythm J . Let me start with an introduction first: After my first...