Monthly Archives: January 2009

After Estonia now Kyrgyzstan

Posted on 30/01/2009 by Roger

There is definitely proof that during war times, armies add a virtual component to the “real life” war. Additionally we have seen the attacks to Estonia, where nobody really knew where they originated from (I do not mean the country … Continue reading →

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Data Protection Day 2009

Posted on 28/01/2009 by Roger

In early December I blogged about the Privacy Video Competition of the Data Protection Day. Today is the day: The winners just were announced. If you want to look at the videos (they are actually pretty cool): Watch all entries: … Continue reading →

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Piracy and Security (part 1.5)

Posted on 27/01/2009 by Roger

Well, it is not really a follow up of my last post but goes into the same direction: A few years ago (I was still working in Switzerland) we ran an event where consumer could bring us their PC and … Continue reading →

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Centralized Information About The Conficker Worm

Posted on 23/01/2009 by Roger

Since I enabled Live chatting on my blog I got several questions about Conficker already, which I am happy to answer. However, Ziv from our Malware Protection Center now published an excellent blog post summarizing all the information about Conficker … Continue reading →

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Comments on US-CERTs Advisory on Auto-Run

Posted on 22/01/2009 by Roger

You might have seen the advisory of the US-CERT titled Microsoft Windows Does Not Disable AutoRun Properly – if not, you will definitely have seen one of the articles covering this issue and telling you that our advice on how … Continue reading →

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Is there a Correlation between Stolen Software (Piracy) and Security/Patching?

Posted on 20/01/2009 by Roger

Remark: A few weeks ago I made a post where I asked you about the correlation between Piracy and Security. I was talking about Piracy (stolen software) and got a lot of answers about Privacy (Data Protection) . So the … Continue reading →

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Is Mozilla really the most secure Web Browser?

Posted on 19/01/2009 by Roger

On http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/security/ Mozilla claims that Firefox is “The Safest Web Browser”. Unfortunately they leave a lot of their claims unsupported. This is something our Jeff Jones looks into. Since a lot of years Jeff looks into figures and metrics around … Continue reading →

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Conficker and Microsoft Anti-Malware Software

Posted on 14/01/2009 by Roger

I want to add a few things as it is still not over: More and more enterprises are still hit. My last blog post showed you what you can do but I wanted to add two resources and a comment. … Continue reading →

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Additional Information on Conficker – MSRT removing Conficker

Posted on 13/01/2009 by Roger

Over the last few days I blogged several times about Conficker and some of the posts caught quite some press attention. Especially when I talked about the Russian Roulette. Today I have very, very good news: The Malicious Software Removal … Continue reading →

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Russian Roulette with your Network (part 2)

Posted on 11/01/2009 by Roger

My latest blog post on this matter generated quite some attention. Based on what happened since then, let me be clear on what I wanted to say (and still want to say): If you decide not to roll out a … Continue reading →

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