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In my last post , I briefly touched on different features of Windows Vista, which I think are important with regards to the view on Windows XP vs. Windows Vista. Let’s take a different approach now: I recently was on a panel in Eastern Europe where I...
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Blog Post by Jon Oltsik: A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation to a number of companies about the future of endpoint security. During this presentation, I had the opportunity to ask these folks a number of questions about their IT infrastructure and...
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I recently had the pleasure to be part of an article in World Finance called Stacked against hacks Visit the virtual version here and go to page 60 and 61 Roger Share this post: Read More...
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"Too many organizations still lack coherent, enforced and forward-thinking security processes, our survey shows. While 59 percent of respondents said they have an "overall information security strategy," that's up just two points from...
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In der aktuellen Computerwoche findet sich eine interessante Auflistung von 20 typischen Fehlern, welche die IT-Sicherheit gefährden und unnötige Kosten verursachen. Keine Angst, ich verschone Sie mit einer allzu langen Liste. Stattdessen greife ich 9...
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SAFECode just released a new paper called Fundamental Practices for Secure Software Development . This is a collaboration of different people from different companies (SAP, EMC, Symantec, Juniper, Nokia and Microsoft). As you probably know, SAFECode is...
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Vor gut einer Woche sorgte Amazon CTO Werner Vogel für einen Paukenschlag in der IT-Welt, indem er verkündete, dass noch diesen Herbst Microsoft Windows Server und SQL Server auf der Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) von Amazon - die bislang Unix- und Linux...
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I blogged several times already on UAC as this has been (and partly still is) a very disputed security feature in Windows Vista (which I still support!). I just found today a not really new blog post on UAC, which I think is worth reading. It is from...
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I just read a pretty interesting paper; you should have a look at. The interesting thing is – from my point of view – the paper is close to your End to End Trust paper we published in March. What I want to say with that is, that it seems that several...
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It is getting better over time: Now you can rent a Botnet on eBay to increase your hitrate on YouTube (By the way: Free shipping is included): http://cgi.ebay.com/Guaranteed-100-000-views-for-your-YouTube-video_W0QQitemZ220279609299QQcmdZViewItem?hash...
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Last week Microsoft released IE8 Beta2, the faster, easier and safer successor of the existing Internet Explorer. As there are a lot of changes (new default settings, new support for standards, new features), it's definitely woth to try and test IE8...
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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 exploit...
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Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool - a program that removes malware from Windows machines - detected password-stealing software from more than 2 million PCs in the first week after it was updated. One password stealer, called Taterf, alone...
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US-CERT has received reports of new phishing activity, some of which has been linked to Storm Worm. The latest activity is centered around messages related to the recent earthquake in China and the upcoming Olympic Games. This Trojan is spread via an...
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Excerpt: The spread of wide-scale Internet surveillance has spurred interest in anonymity systems that protect users’ privacy by restricting unauthorized access to their identity. This requirement can be considered as a flow control policy in the well...
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Excerpt: This report, developed in collaboration with experts, aims to inform policy makers about malware impacts, growth and evolution, and countermeasures to combat malware. It seeks to analyze some of the main issues associated with malware and to...
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Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer's microprocessor, hidden from current antivirus products. Called a System Management Mode (SMM) rootkit, the software runs...
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Security guru Joel Snyder from Opus One recently starred as the guest of a live Network World chat where he discussed the state of network access control. Snyder says that Microsoft is emerging as one of the clear winners of NAC, but that Microsoft's...
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The United States is increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks that could have catastrophic effects on critical physical infrastructure and severely damage the country’s economic, military, and strategic interests, cybersecurity specialists said today....
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I just read this article called 8 Dirty Secrets Of The Security Industry , which seems pretty nasty. Let's briefly have a look at them: Vendors do not need to be ahead of the hackers; they only need to be ahead of the buyer : Wow, this is a bad statement...
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The glitzy, interactive abilities of Web 2.0 have led to a profusion of new applications, but the technology also is bringing a new era of security vulnerabilities, a security researcher warned Wednesday. "Security was a challenge to begin with,...
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Beating the "botnets"–armies of infected computers used to attack websites–requires borrowing tactics from the bad guys, say computer security researchers. A team at the University of Washington, US, wants to marshal swarms of good computers...
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The length of time between the development of security patches and the development of exploits targeting the security holes they address has been dropping for some time. Hackers exploit this period of time - the so-called patch window - to launch attacks...
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Mobile networks and handsets are becoming more of a target for criminals with a technical bent, security experts are warning. "There's a real transition from online in to the mobile space," said Simeon Coney, head of business development...
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Hier noch ein Nachtrag zum aktuellen Microsoft Security Intelligence Report , den wir neulich im Zusammenhang mit Forefront "Stirling" streiften. Er enthält auch eine "Weltkarte der infizierten Rechner", die ich Ihnen nicht vorenthalten...
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