|
||||||
Consumerization of IT–How to address thisBring Your Own Device or Consumerization of IT are fairly hot themes in a lot of customer organizations. When I talk to customers, there are typically different reactions, once we bring this up. Some tell us, that it is not part of their strategy; some tell us that they plan to do it but that they have a hard time figuring out, how to secure such an environment; very, very ... 
10 Years of Trustworthy Computing at MicrosoftBefore joining Microsoft a little bit more than 10 years ago, I ran a team at PricewarehoureCoopers on e-Business Risk Management – classical security consulting in the Internet bubble time. When I announced that I will leave PwC and join Microsoft, I got interesting reactions (and remember, this was 2001). Mainly they were along two lines: Oh, you are joining a desktop company? ... 
10 Reasons to migrate off Windows XPI would like you to sit back, close your eyes and think about the year 2001. Think about how you used technology back then, how you used the Internet. Now, let’s take it a little bit further back in history and think of the year 2000. Just after we realized that the Year-2000-Problem was handled very well by the industry. How you used technology, how you used the Internet, the ... 
Office 365 Becomes First and Only Major Cloud Productivity Service to Comply With Leading EU and U.S. Standards for Data Protection and SecurityA long title but this was the title of the official press statement yesterday. Compliance is always a key question in the public cloud space. Therefore it is very important for us that we now achieved three things: Office 365 is compliant with EU Model Clauses, Data Processing Agreements and ISO 27001 among other standards. Office 365 is the first and only major ... 
I was recently at an event for Law Enforcement where one of the discussion points was how critical it is to protect Smartphones – actually it was more about how easy to would be to claim that my Smartphone was hacked and how proof can be found. That you should run Anti-Malware software on phones, . . . → Read More: Spying on Smartphones This week I had – again – a longer mail thread on SQL Injection attacks. Probably it caught me at the wrong moment, as it was a very long week preparing for the IE Out of Band making sure everybody knows what they have to do. And then… I was actually pinged by our office . . . → Read More: SQL Injection – again? You do not trust e-Business? Why do you trust “normal” business then? Read this: Newspaper ‘Steals’ Empire State Building in Just 90 Minutes Roger Go out there and install the update immediately now. Here is the bulletin: MS08-078 – Security Update for Internet Explorer (960714) If you think that you could be infected, run a scan with the online Windows Life OneCare Safety scanner which finds the malware based on this exploit as far as we know it. Roger . . . → Read More: Internet Explorer Security Update Ready Just as a short notice: We just started to communicate that we will release a security update for the Internet Explorer vulnerability. At the moment, the update is schedule to be released approx 10:00 am PST (19:00 CET) tomorrow. Have a look at the Advanced Notification which you can find here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-dec.mspx Please start immediately . . . → Read More: IMPORTANT: IE Vulnerability: Out of Band Release Scheduled for Tomorrow Outch: McCain campaign sells unwiped Blackberry for $20 Roger I know that this is not particularly news but nevertheless it could well be that the non-developers out there have not yet seen this. During TechEd EMEA for Developers we announced several things around SDL and had some speeches. Some of them are public including interviews with people like Michael Howard: Video on the Announcements . . . → Read More: Videos about the latest Security Development Lifecycle You know that I rarely blog on Advisories we publish unless they are heavily critical. I just want to make sure that you have seen this. MSRC (the Microsoft Security Response Center) constantly updates this advisory with workarounds. Please take this very, very serious: Microsoft Security Advisory (961051) Details on updates by MSRC Details from . . . → Read More: Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution On January 28th the European Union is holding the Data Protection Day. To prepare for that, they are holding a competition for young people from 15 to 19 to express their views about online privacy. Here is the teaser: Surf the net – Think privacy! So, please spread the word! Roger . . . → Read More: Privacy Video Competition I recently had the great opportunity to join the Europol High Tech Crime Experts Meeting 2008 in Den Haag. This is mainly a get together of the High Tech Crime leads of the EU Law Enforcement agencies and countries where they have a close relationship with (e.g. Switzerland, Norway, Canada etc). Additionally there are a . . . → Read More: Europol High Tech Crime Experts Meeting 2008 |
|
|||||
|
Copyright © 2012 Roger Halbheer on Security - All Rights Reserved Powered by WordPress & Atahualpa |
||||||
