10 Years of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft

Before joining Microsoft a little bit more than 10 years ago, I ran a team at PricewarehoureCoopers on e-Business Risk Management – classical security consulting in the Internet bubble time. When I announced that I will leave PwC and join Microsoft, I got interesting reactions (and remember, this was 2001). Mainly they were along . . . → Read More: 10 Years of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft

Cybersecurity–More than a good headline

A lot of governments all across the globe are working on starting, restarting or pushing their Cybersecurity initiative. What often concerns me is, that the last real headline has more impact on the strategy and the themes to be addressed than a structure or a plan or a strategy.

This made us thinking about what . . . → Read More: Cybersecurity–More than a good headline

Using the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) for Incident Response

A few years ago I posted on DaRT after having seen it: Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset. It is a really good an interesting tool for a lot of problems, one of them being incident response. I just stumbled across one article describing this: Using the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) for Incident Response.

. . . → Read More: Using the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) for Incident Response

VeriSign to Take Down Malware Sites?

This is actually an interesting approach: VeriSign Proposes Takedown Procedures and Malware Scanning for .Com. This leads to the discussion I have so often: What is more important? The single website or the greater good? Now, do not get me wrong: I see the risks of VeriSign taking down microsoft.com because a blog hosted there . . . → Read More: VeriSign to Take Down Malware Sites?

Microsoft Malware Protection Center on Facebook and Twitter

I know, I have been fairly slow in blogging currently but I was fairly busy with a few cool projects (which I will disclose later) and – time flies if you are having fun

Just a quick one:

The MMPC on Facebook and Twitter

The Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) officially launched its Facebook page . . . → Read More: Microsoft Malware Protection Center on Facebook and Twitter

Special Intelligence Report on the Rustock Takedown

As you might remember, on Match 16th Microsoft together with other industry players was successfully able to take down the Rustock botnet and thus significantly reducing the spam level.

We now just published a special Intelligence Report on this botnet:

Read an overview of the Win32/Rustock family of rootkit-enabled backdoor Trojans background, functionality, how it . . . → Read More: Special Intelligence Report on the Rustock Takedown

Ten Immutable Laws Of Security (Version 2.0)

You might have known the 10 Immutable Laws Of Security since quite a while. It is kind of the “collected non-technical wisdom” of what we see in security respeonse being it in Microsoft Security Response Center or in our Security Product Support.

There is now a version 2, which is still as important as version . . . → Read More: Ten Immutable Laws Of Security (Version 2.0)

Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for Malware Response

A new version of this guide went live – I think something, you should look at. There is a metrology and a process in detail:

So, if you want to learn more: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc162838.aspx

Roger

Fighting a Botnet

Microsoft Malware Protection Center published a document on Battling the Zbot Threat, a special edition of the Security Intelligence Report. It is a very good document, worth looking at.

This is the intro (to make you curious for more):

This document provides an overview of the Win32/Zbot family of password-stealing trojans. The document examines the . . . → Read More: Fighting a Botnet

Stuxnet talks – do we listen?

Stuxnet is a severe threat – that’s something we know for sure. But if we look at it – what do we really know? What can we learn?

Let’s start from the beginning. As soon as Stuxnet hit the news, it was interesting to see, what was happening. There was a ton of speculation out . . . → Read More: Stuxnet talks – do we listen?

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