Monthly Archives: November 2008

MS08-067 – ACT NOW!

I blogged today about the worm outbreak. We are seeing an increasing number of critical support calls because of customers being infected by the worm attacking the vulnerability fixed in MS08-067. Let me be even clearer than before: The update … Continue reading

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Attacks on MS08-067

As we were pushing on our Out-of-Band release earlier this month we tried to make you understand that immediate deployment is needed as the vulnerability is high risk. Otherwise we would not have gone out of band… Interestingly enough, we … Continue reading

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Security Risks in the Supply Chain?

At the moment I am travelling through the Gulf in order to launch the Security Intelligence Report v5 with local data. During one of the discussions today, a question was raised which I was thinking about quite some while (but … Continue reading

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How Spam Filters work

Just a short one: I think I had to feed that into the requirements list for our Exchange team: Roger

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Get Safe Online – This Week

We see this concept all over Europe: There are National Security Awareness Days (or how ever they are called) in a lot of European countries. During these events, the industry (from software to banking to government to …) gets together … Continue reading

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Security – One of the Key Reasons to Migrate to Windows Vista (part 2)

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 … Continue reading

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Security – One of The Key Reasons to Migrate to Windows Vista (part 1)

The value of Windows Vista is often questioned. There are a lot of customers who still think that there might be nor reason to migrate to Windows Vista. I will publish two blog posts giving you some views on the … Continue reading

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Safe Social Networking

I am often asked by a lot of people what my view is on the social networks like Facebook and what I think about it. Well, the most important points first: I am using social networks myself as I like … Continue reading

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Lottery Scams – One of the Biggest Threat to End Users

I just want to tell you that I will retire. Yes, sure! I just won twice in a lottery. I just have to make sure that all the taxes and insurance policies are paid… You know them as well, don’t … Continue reading

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The Next Version of ISA Server (“live” from TechEd EMEA)

If is once again one of these posts with the start like “I am just sitting in a session…”. Actually I had some time today to visit sessions and look into some things I have never seen. We often have … Continue reading

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