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Do we Need Special Laws?
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
Posted in Crime, Cybercrime, Legislation, Terrorism
Tagged Crime, Cybercrime, Law Enforcement, Legislation, Policy Makers
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Microsoft Security Intelligence Report – What it means for EMEA
“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
Posted in Crime, Cybercrime, Government, Incidents, Industry, Law Enforcement, Microsoft, Security, Trends
Tagged Behavior, Botnet, Collaboration, Cybercrime, Ecosystem, Hacking, Incidents, Malware, Statistics
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A Detailed Analysis of an Attack – Do We Need an International Incident Sharing Database?
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
Posted in Associations, Crime, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Cybercrime, Government, Incidents, Industry, Law Enforcement, Legislation, People, Policy, Process, Security, Technology, Terrorism, Trends
Tagged Cloud, Collaboration, Crime, Cybercrime, Government, Hacking, Incident Sharing, International, Law Enforcement, Legislation, Policies
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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
Posted in Crime, Cybercrime, Government, Law Enforcement, Legislation, Terrorism
Tagged Cloud, Crime, Critical Infrastructure, Cybercrime, Government, Law Enforcement, Legislation
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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
Posted in Crime, Cybercrime, Law Enforcement, Microsoft, Partner, Process, Strategy, Trends
Tagged Botnet, Collaboration, Crime, Ecosystem, Government, Law Enforcement, Malware
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ATM Skims – would you have figured them?
I was reading two BBC articles this morning. Wow, this is scary, isn’t it? Look at the pictures below: I do not think that I would have seen that… It even has an integrated camera which is switched on, when … Continue reading
Hacking Incidents 2009 – Interesting Data
There is a project called the web hacking incident database (WHID), which collects data and statistics on web-application related security incidents. I was just looking into their report called The Web Hacking Incident Database 2009 which has some pretty interesting … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Cybercrime, Incidents, Industry, Process, Trends
Tagged Crime, Cybercrime, Hacking, Incidents
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Legal Challenges of International Business and the Cloud
To start with: I am an engineer not a lawyer – and this might be part of the problem… When I started to think about the Cloud and security and thought about all the work I do with Law Enforcement … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Cybercrime, Government, Law Enforcement, Legislation, Microsoft, Privacy, Process, Processes, Security, Strategy
Tagged Behavior, Citizens, Cloud, Collaboration, Crime, Government, International, Internet, Jurisdiction, Law Enforcement, Legislation, MLAT, Policy Makers, Privacy
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When Security Essentials are not Microsoft Security Essentials
It is so old: Software telling you that you are infected and that you have to install this latest security software immediately. You can bet that this then installs malware on your PC instead of cleaning it. We mentioned this … Continue reading
Posted in Cybercrime, Incidents, Microsoft
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The Latest Internet Explorer 0Day
As it happens: I have been skiing last week (the weather was gorgeous) and now I am back (unfortunately) and confronted with the next Internet Explorer 0Day vulnerability, which already causes noise – in my opinion too much for the … Continue reading
Posted in Cybercrime, Incidents, Incidents
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