Category Archives: Government

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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Piracy and Legal Consequences

Posted on 06/04/2010 by Roger

If would like to start with an important statement: This is the first blog post I made with a disclaimer to start with. The content of this post is not an official Microsoft position and might not reflect the Microsoft … 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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Council of Europe – Octopus Conference (Cooperation against Cybercrime) Day 2

Posted on 24/03/2010 by Roger

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

Posted on 24/03/2010 by Roger

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

Posted on 23/03/2010 by Roger

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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Results of Operation b49 (Botnet Takedown)

Posted on 20/03/2010 by Roger

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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Azure Showcase: The Eye on Earth

Posted on 19/03/2010 by Roger

Well, you know, fairly often when I look at showcases I am a little bit disappointed I have to admit. Mainly because the technology which is shown is really cool and I would love to leverage it – just it … Continue reading →

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Data Protection Heat Map

Posted on 10/03/2010 by Roger

I was looking at some research done by Forrester which could be interesting for you as well. They try to lay out the landscape with regards to data protection for you and it looks fairly compelling. So if you are … Continue reading →

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