Monthly Archives: December 2009

Algeria: Conference on Certification (eID)

Posted on 17/12/2009 by Roger

When I tweeted last week that I am on my way to Algeria, I got quite some reactions and questions that I shall report how it was. So, let me try to briefly summarize my impressions. I was invited to … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Security Essentials – Coming even closer to you

Posted on 16/12/2009 by Roger

Today we were adding 17 additional markets to our Microsoft Security Essentials offering. I am really excited about that as all these markets are in EMEA: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, India, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi … Continue reading →

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Climate: Environmental Atlas of Europe

Posted on 15/12/2009 by Roger

This is a pretty interesting approach: During the Copenhagen conference now, United Nations Environment Programme, esa and the European Environment Agency launched a website called the Environmental Atlas of Europe. The goal of this atlas is to give examples where … Continue reading →

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Summary of Bitlocker Discussions

Posted on 11/12/2009 by Roger

Last week there was quite some discussion about “successful attacks” on Bitlocker. Those discussions are often quite interesting for me as they show sometimes that people are looking for one technical solution for all the problems. Bitlocker has a clear … Continue reading →

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Get Safe Online: Don’t be a Money Mule

Posted on 04/12/2009 by Roger

You know, there are people who blog late, there are people who blog very late and then there is me… I actually missed that one even though I was triggered: Mid November there was the Get Safe Online Week 2009 … Continue reading →

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The New Bing Maps – Freaking Cool!!!

Posted on 02/12/2009 by Roger

It has nothing to do with security – I know but it is very, very, very cool!!!! We just released the new Bing Maps explorer! The first thing you will see is that we integrated Photosynth and Silverlight. So, no … Continue reading →

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“Black Screen of Death” Reports

Posted on 01/12/2009 by Roger

Oh, wow – sometimes the power of social media, the blogs and the Internet can backfire. I guess in the meantime you have seen the claims by Prevx that approx. 80 Mio of PCs are affected by the Black Screen … Continue reading →

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Questions to Ask your (Security) Vendor

Posted on 01/12/2009 by Roger

You know that I am a big fan of Security Development Lifecycles as we run it internally to build code which is more resilient against attacks. And I recently blogged on Security – A Feature Discussion? Some Thoughts on Google’s … Continue reading →

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