A friend of mine uses the phrase “Pixie Dust” a lot when he looks at security products; that and a phrase along the lines of “My granny could break into that…” but essentially it is vendor maki...
When I joined Microsoft the world was a different place, we were not always connected and always on, and computer threats were a curiosity for the majority. That started to evolve rapidly...
So, in our latest SIR report we note that about 50% of attacks we see require some form of user interaction, more and more criminals are using confidence tricks either online or the telephone to targ...
CF Disclosure Guidance: Topic No. 2 – Cybersecurity I would have completely missed this if it wasn’t for a colleague who spotted it; she described it as “This is the single largest annou...
So…a question that often throws me for a loop is this: “If ‘I’ move to the cloud I don’t have to worry about security at my client end point, right?”… err… no that’s not right. But, “why”, I hear you...
I came across this article the other day, Nick Helm’s password joke is Edinburgh Fringe funniest and I said to some friends actually that’s not a bad password strategy add some complexity and s...
So… I’m a security guy, and I tend to think of privacy as a good outcome that comes from good security with supporting policy, I’m not a “privacy” guy. But the bit of work I did on TPL’s did kick off...
This article was drawn to my attention recently: Man reveals secret recipe behind undeletable cookies, which seemed to be troubling for a lot of people. I spoke to a couple of friends and colleagues ...
Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Group today announced the “BlueHat Prize,” an incentive for researchers to develop original ideas to help protect customers, computers, and devices. The top three wi...
Today, we published our latest security Intelligence report. Taking data from a wide variety of sources and bringing them together to provide a clear picture of what is going on in the threat landsca...
Whilst this particular article is not recent it does seem that this type of activity is still going on, alas these scams are not new, and like most “types” of crimes they don’t seem to go away. I hav...
So why is this news? Well, other than it is the first time that a researcher has made an announcement regarding it? Largely any workload could be put into the cloud. Cloud vendors, ours...
CESG recently said of Windows 7 that it was “the safest version of a Microsoft operating system” and “encouraged Her Majesty’s Government to adopt Windows 7 when choosing a Microsoft Operating...
A question I get a lot is; “Is Open Source more or less secure than Microsoft/Commercial Software”? The question always surprises me, and still does because, I wonder why would I or any other securit...
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