• „Scareware“ on the Raise

    We have regular ConfCalls with our security support to exchange trends and issues we see. During the last one we had an interesting discussion I would like to share with you: We seem to get a hell lot of calls mainly from the consumer segment with Virus...
  • Announcing the Exploitability Index

    At Blackhat we announced an important change to our Security Bulletins becoming effective during the October release. One of the requests we often heard talking to our customers is, that they would like to get better information on how hard it is to...
  • Why I do not like e-Voting

    As you know, I am Swiss. Switzerland is known as being one of the most direct democracies in the world. It is not uncommon for us having (or being allowed) to vote every other month as there are a lot of ways to influence what our politicians and/or our...
  • Security through Collaboration

    If you ever heard me keynote an event you know that one of the key messages I have is, that partnerships are necessary in order to be able to protect against today's threats. At Black Hat USA we just announced a new program called Microsoft Active...
  • Secure Development: More than „just“ code!

    I just read an interesting post by Michael Howard ( Security is bigger than finding and fixing bugs ). He refers to a statement Google seem to have made on its development practices ( Google shares its security secrets ): In order to keep its products...