Tag Archives: Crime

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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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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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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Hacking Incidents 2009 – Interesting Data

Posted on 12/03/2010 by Roger

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 →

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