• Cloud computing providers: Clueless about security?

    To me, one of the benefits of moving to the Cloud is security – obviously besides availability and costs. Recent incidents made me doubt: Amazon not only having significant downtime but in the same time losing customer data. Sony’s game network being...
  • IE9 certified as "trusted software" by TÜV

    Internet Explorer was certified early May with a seal of “trusted software”, which is great news in my opinion. Here is the English translation of the official press bulletin: Internet Explorer 9 passed the review of TÜV Trust IT GmbH and carries the...
  • NSA - Best Practices for Keeping Your Home Network Secure

    A good paper: NSA - Best Practices for Keeping Your Home Network Secure Roger
  • Rediscover Microsoft Security Guides

    Fairly often I am asked whether the Security Guides for our products still exist. The good news is: They do. The bad news is: They are called differently The previously stand-alone Microsoft product-specific security guides are now included within the...
  • Facebook Implements Microsoft’s PhotoDNA Technology

    This is actually a great development to fight Child Porn: Facebook adopts PhotoDNA and joins Microsoft and The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to disrupt the proliferation of online child exploitation. You find the information here...