Monthly Archives: March 2009

Conficker.D and April 1st

Posted on 28/03/2009 by Roger

Will the Internet world end on April 1st? This is at least the impression I got from reading the press in the last couple of days. It seems that some story spun off and started to develop a life of … Continue reading →

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Patch Management – Cover the whole 9 yards

Posted on 26/03/2009 by Roger

I pretty often have discussions about Patch Management with our customers. I think it is a very important discussion as I see too many customers not patching at all. However, taking the shining examples – they often look at the … Continue reading →

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What happens with Conficker on April 1st?

Posted on 18/03/2009 by Roger

I would love to know… You probably saw a lot of blog posts recently about “Conficker to strike back on April 1st” or similar. If you are interested in what is know about Conficker and April 1st, read our encyclopedia … Continue reading →

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Time Sync on Virtual DCs

Posted on 16/03/2009 by Roger

I was recently caught in a tricky problem: The clock of one of my host servers ran out of sync.. – significantly. The core problem was that my Mediacenter (which is domain integrated) started to record about 6-8 minutes too … Continue reading →

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You deployed MS09-008 – are you now protected?

Posted on 14/03/2009 by Roger

You might have seen several reports that MS09-008 does not protect you from the vulnerabilities. We reviewed these claims and customers who have deployed MS09-008 are protected from the four vulnerabilities. If you want to have the details, you should … Continue reading →

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Deploying PKI

Posted on 12/03/2009 by Roger

Recently I decided to spend some time to implement some new technologies in my environment at home. The environment itself is a mixture between test and production. If you are reading this post on www.halbheer.info/security, you are already accessing this … Continue reading →

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Octopus Conference on Cybercrime

Posted on 10/03/2009 by Roger

Well, it is actually not “on Cybercrime” but on “Cooperation against Cybercrime” Today and tomorrow this conference takes place at the Council of Europe in Strasburg. The Council of Europe developed a convention on cybercrime, which is actually very good … Continue reading →

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Mozilla Patches Fastest. NOT!

Posted on 09/03/2009 by Roger

I only believe the statistics I forged myself So, once more, there is a debate on which browser is the most secure, who fixed which vulnerabilities how fast. The Secunia Report 2008 was just published and it seems that this … Continue reading →

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Qtel’s Guide to a Faster Internet Experience

Posted on 09/03/2009 by Roger

I like that: As you probably know, I did a tour through the Gulf when we launched the Security Intelligence Report last year. One of the reasons was that we know that the Gulf has a pretty high malware infection … Continue reading →

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Running as Non-Admin in Windows XP

Posted on 06/03/2009 by Roger

I recently had a chat with Tonny Bjorn after my recent blog post and he pointed me to a solution he is using to have users running as non-admin on Windows XP and still having the ability to elevate: He … Continue reading →

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