Monthly Archives: January 2010

Cloud Security Paper: Looking for Feedback

Posted on 30/01/2010 by Roger

As most of you as well, I was looking for information and opinions on Cloud Security over the last year. I found a lot of papers but when I talk to our customers I realize that they think about the … Continue reading →

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Data Protection Day: An Interesting Study

Posted on 29/01/2010 by Roger

As you might know, it was time for the Data Protection Day in Europe again. Unfortunately I did not find the videos from this year’s competition yet but I guess we will find them later on the page and on … Continue reading →

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IE Vulnerability: Going Out of Band

Posted on 19/01/2010 by Roger

Just to make sure you have seen that: We just released a blog Security Advisory 979352 – Going out of Band Quoting the blog: Based on our comprehensive monitoring of the threat landscape we continue to see very limited, and … Continue reading →

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Update on the Internet Explorer Vulnerability

Posted on 18/01/2010 by Roger

There was and still is a lot of noise regarding the Internet Explorer vulnerability reported in Microsoft Security Advisory 979352 – including the normal discussion about which browser is most secure. A discussion I do not want to get into … Continue reading →

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Security Advisory on the recent Internet Explorer Vulnerability

Posted on 15/01/2010 by Roger

I guess you might have seen it by now but if not, please make sure you read and understand the material available: This night we released a Security Advisory on a Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution. … Continue reading →

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Leveraging Data Execution Prevention (DEP)

Posted on 15/01/2010 by Roger

The recent IE attacks have show again that the current technology built in Windows Vista and Windows 7 could at least help to mitigate the attacks. One of these technologies which could be used more broadly is Data Execution Prevention … Continue reading →

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HP and Microsoft Partnership: That’s What You Need in the Cloud

Posted on 14/01/2010 by Roger

Often when I talk to our customers and they ask me about the cloud, a lot of questions come up. Most of them are security related (obviously) but some of them are more management focused. For example the question about … Continue reading →

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Un-Google Yourself: Remove your Web Content

Posted on 12/01/2010 by Roger

A few days ago, I blogged on Tired of Web 2.0? Kill your Online Identities – an automated way to “disappear” from Web 2.0 (actually Facebook has banned the tool since…). Today, I was reading an article called Un-Google Yourself. … Continue reading →

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Tired of Web 2.0? Kill your Online Identities

Posted on 07/01/2010 by Roger

No, this is not a joke. If you are tired of all the discussions about Web 2.0, the privacy breaches and the related problems, you can commit Web 2.0 Suicide. There is a Web 2.0 Suicide Machine – but we … Continue reading →

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The “Year-2010″-Problem: Failure of ATM cards!

Posted on 06/01/2010 by Roger

When the industry prepared for the Year 2000, I was working in a consulting company living good from doing reviews on Y2k-projects. Then the year 2000 came and nothing happened (besides a big party). Then year 2010 came – and … Continue reading →

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