• Distributed Denial of Service – and how it works

    I often get asked about Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, how it works and what role we can play to prevent them. So, let me start with the first part of it: Our Security Intelligence Report version 5 talked about the underground economy and...
  • Paper on Information Warfare

    I often see a lot of discussions on Information Warfare. Today I just stumbled across a paper published by RAND called Strategic Information Warfare – A New Face of War – from my first impression definitely worth reading Roger
  • Bitlocker To Go – Cool Stuff

    I guess you know my view to protection of USB-ports. I get often asked how you can protect your user’s from using USB-sticks. There are ways – especially in Vista – but don’t do it. Your users most probably have a good business reason, why they would...
  • Vacation differently: Find new interesting places using Geocaching

    This has absolutely nothing to do with security but is a lot of fun: A few years ago, I read an article about Geocaching . Basically, this is a treasure hunt using GPS. Wikipedia describes it like that : Geocaching is similar to the 150-year-old game...
  • Office 2010: The Movie

    Just some fun before I leave for vacation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUawhjxLS2I BTW: Office 2010 really rocks – I am running the Technical Preview since quite a while now… Have a good summer Roger