10 Years of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft
Before 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 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 ...
Cybersecurity–More than a good headline
A lot of governments all across the globe are working on starting, restarting or pushing their Cybersecurity initiative. What often concerns me is, that the last real headline has more impact on the strategy and the themes to be addressed than a structure or a plan or a strategy.
This made us thinking about what is needed to run a successful Cybersecurity Agenda within a country? What themes ought to be ...
MS09-017: An out-of-the-ordinary PowerPoint security update By Roger Halbheer, on May 13th, 2009 Our Security Research and Defense team blogged on the PowerPoint security update we published on Tuesday. There are a few things which were not “business as usual”:
- The update for the Windows version of PowerPoint went out before the Mac version. The reason is that we did not want to hold the Windows-version which could protect a big majority of our customers
- We removed support for the PowerPoint 4 converter to reduce the attack surface significantly
- We addressed 14 (!) vulnerabilities in PowerPoint (do not tell me that we are not transparent with these things) – only one is publically attacked at the moment.
Read the details yourself: MS09-017: An out-of-the-ordinary PowerPoint security update
Roger
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