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There has been a lot of attention in the norwegian media about how the norwegian military has monitored network traffic on their own networks. Connected to this network is also the royal family and the prime minister (as well as the other ministers) Now, what is becoming the “breaking news” is that they...

Today I was asked about my opinion about Windows 7 security. Quote “What do you think about Windows 7 security, now that it is already hacked (Vbootkit 2.0)” Truth is, I strongly belive you should go for Windows 7 anyway. And why is that? If you read about the hack you will see that it requires physical...

Listen to Steve Riley talk about his favorite Windows 7 security features http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowssecurity/archive/2009/04/22/steve-riley-on-windows-7-security.aspx

These days I´m working on a AD RMS deployment , and I thought I write something about it. This starts with a short introduction, and if popular (enough people asks for it), I will go more deeply. There is no doubt that how we approach security needs to change. For too long now we have been thinking about...

I will be presenting at something called “the Microsoft day” at HackCon 2009. This would be February 16th in Oslo, Norway. My speak would be about Windows Server 2003/Windows Server 2008 security. Really looking forward to this – I have always enjoyed HackCon. So if you would be attending – please stop...

As you already might know there is found a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer that affects all currently supported versions of Windows. Please prepare your systems to apply this patch asap. This is critical, and needs to be patched as fast as possible. You can read more about this here...

At Teched I attended a very interesting session about connecting Active Directory to the cloud. The session talked about Microsoft Geneva, Microsoft Services Connector and Microsoft Federation Gateway. As we are going through a services revolution with all the things happening in the cloud, identity...

On Friday Red Hat / Fedora announced that unknown intruders breached the security of several computers, making the systems unavailable for over a week. The most significant breach involved a system used by the Fedora Project to sign the software packages used for automatically updates. " Based on...

Is it hard to do security right? Or is it easy? If you read some product brochures it looks like it´s easy; " 256 bit encryption ", " makes you secure ", " be secure "... So why do I still think security is not as easy as buying a product? All products are a part of your...

As a recent paper shows, Vista is doing really good. The following systems are discussed in the paper: Microsoft Windows Vista Microsoft Windows XP SP2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (V. 4) Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Desktop Apple Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Apple Mac OS...