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As Chief Security Advisor of Microsoft EMEA - lets share interesting security information
Blogging on MOSS 2007 (SharePoint)
As you probably realized, I stopped the series "How I secure my Infrastructure" as the hit rate on...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 04/29/2008
How to use a Cellphone
:-) Roger
Author: rhalbheer Date: 04/28/2008
Security Updates and Exploits
As you may know, we announced version four of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report earlier...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 04/25/2008
Security Pros ignoring their own message
As you probably know: I am Swiss. We have a saying in Switzerland (I do not know whether something...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 04/25/2008
Our Malicious Software Removal Tool and Storm
There is an interesting article on the value of the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT – the tool...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 04/24/2008
Infosec: Security community must work together
Ed Gibson, our CSA in the UK had an interview during Infosec with VNunet. He made some interesting...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 04/24/2008
Technology to Circumvent Censorship (Part 2)
Back in March I blogged on a Technology to Circumvent Censorship. I actually expected some dialogue...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 04/24/2008
0-Day-Patch – An new Metric for Security?
The Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich released a study at Blackhat, which is definitely...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 04/18/2008
The ideal profile of a CSO
I was in Bratislava this week for an IDC Conference. During these kind of events I often talk to the...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 04/18/2008
SDL and End to End Trust
Last week we published – as you hopefully know – our "End to End Trust" whitepaper. If not, please...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 04/17/2008
Hacking Back?
Pretty often there is a discussion how far it is allowed to hack back. I was just reading an...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 04/16/2008
Office Binary Formats on the Web
I just wanted to make you aware that we put the Office Binary Formats on the web. We did this for...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 04/15/2008
How long does it take to hack a Power Plant?
I start to get scared – more and more. Back in September I blogged on Critical Infrastructure...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 04/14/2008
“The Security Business has no Future” (Quote by IBM)
This is actually an interesting statement. If you had ever to deal with the press you know how these...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 04/14/2008
Forefront Codename “Stirling” Beta ready for Download
I had the opportunity to see the Beta of our next generation of Forefront environment the first time...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 04/09/2008
End-To-End Trust: We want your Feedback
You probably saw my blog post on End-To-End Trust last week. This week at RSA Craig Mundie,...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 04/08/2008
Building a faster Internet
Does not solve any of the security problems (challenges?) but it sounds promising anyway Building A...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 04/05/2008
Security Compliance Management – Beta Available
Compliance is the theme of the day at the moment. We often even see the Security Officers starting...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 04/04/2008
Where next? – Watch out for RSA
We are six years into Trustworthy Computing (TwC). When we launched it, we said a number of things:...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 04/03/2008
Security Risks of VoIP
Internet Telephony Has Security Problems: This was an interesting read this morning for different...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 04/03/2008
How to do security in Development
Michael Howard just pointed us to a resource that could be interesting for you as well – it was new...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 04/02/2008
All the Vista SP1 Features where you have time to read them :-)
I just found this blog post: In Japan there is toilet paper with all the Vista SP1 features on it…....
Author: rhalbheer Date: 04/02/2008
Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset
Well, we call it simply DaRT. You know the feeling: A machine does not boot anymore, crashed, has a...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 04/02/2008
The Death of the DMZ = The Death of the Castle
Since quite some time we are talking about the "Death of the DMZ". This seems a little bit...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 04/01/2008
Still undecided about Vista?
To Vista or not to Vista – a question quite some enterprises are asking these days. Mark Russinovich...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 03/31/2008
Open Government Data Principles
In December about 30 government advocates assembled to decide on - what they called - Open...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 03/27/2008
Pricelist for Botnets
It is not new and I blogged several times on it: If you own a botnet, you can make quite some money....
Author: rhalbheer Date: 03/27/2008
SPAM moving to SMS?
Well, I do not hope and I do not expect it to. Why? Well, mobile text messages are not free – mails...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 03/26/2008
Safari to crash XP
Not only that it is "forced" on the clients – it seems even to crash Windows XP machines: Safari 3.1...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 03/25/2008
Sun and Apple Updates – A Sheer Nuisance!! – Part 2
Quite some of you read my initial post on that – and I like the comments I got. Now, it seems that I...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 03/25/2008
Vulnerability in Microsoft Jet Database Engine (Jet) Could Allow Remote Code Execution
I usually do not blog on Advisories we release as I guess that you subscribed to the corresponding...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 03/22/2008
Sun and Apple Updates – A Sheer Nuisance!!
As you all know: I rarely blog on competitors and – even rarer – blog about them negatively. But...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 03/19/2008
New Technology ending Hardware Piracy?
I just read an interesting article on a new hardware technology that – the patent owner hope – would...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 03/16/2008
A New Model to Taylor your Testing
I guess you know the problem: You ran a development project and have to test the code (if the...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 03/15/2008
Analysis of Cyber-Terror
The US Military just released a pretty interesting in-depth article on Cyber-Terrorism and the...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 03/13/2008
Steve Ballmer on next revolution in computing
Over the next time (actually starting at RSA) you will hear more from us how we see the future of...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 03/06/2008
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is available
We just made Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 available. This is especially important if you are...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 03/05/2008
External Collaboration Toolkit for Sharepoint
Often exchanging information and collaborating with external people is a big challenge. Therefore we...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 03/03/2008
How to handle a security crisis
Do you know that problem: You are at the beginning of a security crisis and should be able to give...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 03/03/2008
Infoworld on Windows Server 2008 Security and Privacy
We launched Windows Server 2008 (as you hopefully know J). Infoweb published an article on Windows...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 02/29/2008
DHS Security Level on your Webpage
A blog reader sent me a mail informing me that he wrote a small application that links the DHS...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 02/29/2008
Windows Server 2008 Security Guide released
You all showed great interest in the Windows Server 2008 Security Guide Beta. Now the "real" version...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 02/29/2008
Securing My Infrastructure: Firewall
Well, this is a follow-up of my last posts about how I secure my environment. If you want to read...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 02/28/2008
Spammers are using Out-Of-Office Messages to Spam
It once more shows that the criminals are extremely creative in abusing features to do their...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 02/27/2008
Hackers crack Bitlocker – really?
Sorry for being so late on that but I was enjoying the gorgeous weather in Switzerland and was...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 02/25/2008
Dilbert on Security
Enjoy: Roger
Author: rhalbheer Date: 02/17/2008
Converter from Office Binary files to OpenXML
We are supporting a project on SourceForge to write an OpenSource translator for Office Binary files...
Author: rhalbheer Date: 02/17/2008