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Increasingly, workers want to use their own devices, such as slates, smartphones, and portable computers, for work. For IT to be able to embrace consumerization, risks to the enterprise and its data must be minimized through assessing and understanding...
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"In theory, stopping spam is easy: just make it uneconomic to send millions of messages by charging for each one sent, or make senders authenticate their identity to stop address spoofing and simplify blocking. In practice, that would involve building...
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I was reading an article today called Does Your ISP Care About Protecting Your Privacy? . An interesting question. The ISPs in the article are even thinking of VPNing all the traffic to avoid the necessity for keeping the logs (or probably better, NATing...
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There is an good article on CIO Central: Are You Focused On The Wrong Security Risks? An interesting discussion and I part agree that we have to challenge the way we look at the security risks. I would even broaden the questions he raises. When I talk...
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I just read this blog post by ESET laboratories: Inside a phishing attack: 35 credit cards in 5 hours . They analyzed a very poorly designed phishing attack and found that: The first access to the site was on January 20 at 10:01 pm (as seen in picture...
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After the launch of different products for the consumer, businesses and in the Cloud, Steve Ballmer opened CES today in Las Vegas. You should look at it. There are a few very cool announcements: Or directly from the CES webpage . Roger Share this post...
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Good series of articles about Windows 7 security: http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Windows-7-Security-Primer-Part1.html http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Windows-7-Security-Primer-Part2.html http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Windows-7...
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We recently had internal discussions on the use of local admin and how to mitigate it. During this, Richard Diver, a Premier Field Engineer in APAC, wrote a great article how to do it. I wanted to make sure, you can see this as well. So, this is a guest...
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If you use Hotmail, you should enable full session SSL in my opinion. Additionally we use SSL for additional services like Skydrive etc. However, there are some caveats. Read the blog post on that: Hotmail security improves with full-session HTTPS encryption...
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Microsoft Deutschland hat seit kurzem einen eigenen YouTube Kanal . Dort werden u.a. Themen wie Windows Phone 7, IE 9, Windows Live etc. betrachtet. Einfach mal reinschauen …...( read more ) Share this post: Read More...
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I guess you do not know the problem: My kids come home from school and want an iPod – I want them to use a Zune as I am convinced that iTunes is one of the worst software I have ever seen (besides RealPlayer), I hate the lock-in into the store and the...
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I already have a problem the way tourism develops on Mount Everest (definitely understanding that some people in the region can make money and a living of it) but now you can even get fast Internet on the base camp: Peak signal: 3G cell service comes...
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I often hear statements that the risk of losing your identity or being a victim of fraud is much higher online than offline. From my point of view it is more about the feelings of the consumer: In the real world, we know the risks – at least we learned...
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Make your password strong, with a unique jumble of letters, numbers and punctuation marks. But memorize it — never write it down. And, oh yes, change it every few months... Yes, that's it? Or not? "Keeping a keylogger off your machine is...
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Security relevant? Not sure... Fun? Definitely! Can't await mine... ;-) But to still give it a security touch, let's put this under 'Consumerization of IT'. http://www.cnet.com/8301-17918_1-20015314-85.html?tag=mncol;1n -Urs...( read more...
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A post by Terry Myerson Today is the day that the Windows Phone team has been driving towards, and we’re very excited to say that we’ve reached the biggest milestone for our internal team – the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows...
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I really love reading Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog . Fairly often it is thought provoking… He recently wrote about his experience with the new iPhone privacy policy: Apple giving out your iPhone fingerprints and location . He was one (probably of the...
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[PCWorld] You already know the basics of internet security, right? But when you've got the basics covered, but you still don't feel secure, what can you do? Here are a few advanced security tips to help you thwart some of today's most common...
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For the past week or so, MSRC has been closely tracking a new family of threats called Stuxnet (a name derived from some of the filename/strings in the malware — mrxcls.sys, mrxnet.sys). In the past few days, it has become a popular topic of discussion...
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An unsupported version of Windows will no longer receive software updates from Windows Update. These include security updates that can help protect your PC from harmful viruses, spyware, and other malicious software, which can steal your personal information...
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As Microsoft announced in 2008, support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) will end on July 13, 2010. Support for Windows 2000 will end on the same date. Customers running an unsupported version of Windows or Windows service pack will not be eligible...
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It really made me think… Roger Share this post: Read More...
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You know that we have Tablet PCs since Windows XP and I think I did not have many PCs at Microsoft which were not tablets. How often do I use them as a tablet? Not too often but when I am in a customer meeting and do not use my notebook to present, I...
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From time to time I do speeches to parents here in the community with regards to online safety for the kids and the teens. Being a parent as well, I have a natural interest in this theme, knowing that I probably have better insights in some of the challenges...
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[Network World] Cyber criminals sent 3.7 billion phishing emails over the last year, in a bid to steal money from unsuspecting web users, says CPP. Research by the life assistance company revealed that 55 percent of phishing scams are fake bank emails...
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