Monthly Archives: March 2010

Raise Money for Cancer Research

This is a private post – and does not really have a lot to do with my job at Microsoft. Well, a little… A friend of mine – actually the EMEA Security PR guy at Microsoft – is an addicted … Continue reading

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Why Today’s End-User Education Fails!

I was reading a paper recently, where I initially thought it is a joke (it looked scientifically, therefore I was not too scared). But as our research department did it, it is serious and really, really good – at least … Continue reading

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Council of Europe – Octopus Conference (Cooperation against Cybercrime) – Key Messages

I blogged on Day 1 and Day 2 but as I expected, I was unable to blog yesterday on the conference. However, let me just briefly give you my impression of the final day: The core part of this last … Continue reading

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Council of Europe – Octopus Conference (Cooperation against Cybercrime) Day 2

And the second day starts. I just met with Jeremy Kirk from IDG and it is great to see that the press is actually interested in such a conference as well. The day today started with a long session on … Continue reading

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Council of Europe: We need ONE Cybercrime Convention

As you saw from previous posts, I am at the Octopus Conference on Cooperation against Cybercrime at the moment. We had yesterday the Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe and one of her key statements was that different … Continue reading

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Council of Europe – Octopus Conference (Cooperation against Cybercrime) Day 1

A few years ago, the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime was signed within the Council of Europe. Since then it was ratified all across the globe by a lot of countries or at least used as the base for legislation. Since … Continue reading

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Run Windows 7 XP Mode on CPU’s without virtualization

I once wanted to text Windows 7 XP Mode on my notebook or my home PC but unfortunately I failed as both CPUs do not support Hardware Assisted Virtualization (HAV). Now, we released an update for Windows 7 64bit systems … Continue reading

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Want to introduce the Security Development Lifecycle? Play a Game

I was recently pinged by a customer asking for the “real” version of this game. It was distributed at RSA in the US and I do not have any anymore – but you can still print it yourself. So, if … Continue reading

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Results of Operation b49 (Botnet Takedown)

On February 24th we announced the work we did on taking down Waledac – read Tim Cranton’s blog post called Cracking Down on Botnets. Now it is time to look back and try to understand what we learned so far. … Continue reading

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