Category Archives: Cybercrime

Attacks on the Windows Help and Support Center Vulnerability (CVE-2010-1885)

Posted on 02/07/2010 by Roger

I blogged about the vulnerability which was publically disclosed by a researcher working for Google earlier this month. In the meantime the attacks started to increase. I think that it would be important for you to look at what is … Continue reading →

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Is a Copy Machine Your Biggest Security Risk?

Posted on 26/06/2010 by Roger

Probably not. However, it indefinitely is a security risk. We are talking about this since a looooooong time as such copiers are sold since 2002. I just recently heard that the criminals are looking into this heavily and now it … Continue reading →

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Notebook searches at a country border

Posted on 14/06/2010 by Roger

I guess you still know the discussions a while ago where it was made public that notebooks can be searched without suspicion when you cross the border to the US. Actually the truth is, that this can happen everywhere as … Continue reading →

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Should the Government be able to enforce security updates?

Posted on 13/06/2010 by Roger

This is actually an interesting question. A lot of governments enforce rules and regulations on how you have to run your car, how often you have to check it, in which condition you have to keep your tires etc. The … Continue reading →

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Vulnerability Disclosure to Compete?

Posted on 11/06/2010 by Roger

As you know (I stress that fairly often ), I am Swiss. The reason why I am stressing this today is that I want to give you an example on security from the Swiss market: The banks here on place … Continue reading →

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Open Source and Hackers

Posted on 09/06/2010 by Roger

The debate is probably as old as the Open Source software development model: Which one is more secure: Open Source or shared source as we at Microsoft run it? I know that we could now enter a religious debate about … Continue reading →

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Do we Need Special Laws?

Posted on 02/06/2010 by Roger

Well, yes we need Cybersecurity Legislation without doubt but sometimes the legislator goes too far in my opinion. I read this article this morning: Use Google Street View Maps & Serve More Time. I quote: The state legislature in the … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Security Intelligence Report – What it means for EMEA

Posted on 05/05/2010 by Roger

“Unfortunately” I have been on vacation when we released the Security Intelligence Report last week. Nevertheless I would like to take the opportunity and look at it more from a EMEA perspective. One of the interesting data points we always … Continue reading →

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A Detailed Analysis of an Attack – Do We Need an International Incident Sharing Database?

Posted on 21/04/2010 by Roger

I recently came across a paper called Shadows in the Cloud, which is actually a follow-up report of Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network, an investigation of the attacks on the office of the Dalai Lama and some governmental … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 26/03/2010 by Roger

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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