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10 Reasons to migrate off Windows XP
I 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 Security
A 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 ...
Piracy and Security (part 1.5) By Roger Halbheer, on January 27th, 2009 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 we checked it for viruses and cleaned it where necessary. When we found a heavily infected machine, we often heard statements like “my kid is using peer-to-peer networks, is it possible that it comes from there”?” It was really interesting as it was always “my kid” never “I”  . But additionally we learned that peer-to-peer network were already a very important infection vector for consumer PCs. A challenge is that there is often illegal software and movies on there and this content is downloaded from completely untrusted sources.
If you look at the End to End Trust framework we published, this will be addressed by the trusted stack.
However, this is not the real reason for the post. I got a summary of a Chinese bulletin about infected sites with the statement in there:
A [Company] security expert said that presently, ticket sales and movie download sites are the primary targets of hackers to install malicious software and that they contained over 80% of all trojans.
So, be careful what you do if you use peer to peer networks…
Roger
Related posts:
- Is there a Correlation between Stolen Software (Piracy) and Security/Patching?
- Security and Piracy – a Correlation?
- Russian Roulette with your Network (part 2)
- Security – One of the Key Reasons to Migrate to Windows Vista (part 2)
- Security – One of The Key Reasons to Migrate to Windows Vista (part 1)
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