February 6th, 2007
By Martin Hack
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As part of their keynote address at RSA Bill Gates and and Microsoft and Chief Strategy and Research Officer Craig Mundie talked about Microsoft’s view of the security world which is basically separated into three distinct technology areas:
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January 31st, 2007
By Martin Hack
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Looks like some of Borat’s friends got into hacking and now occupy an entire country somewhere in eastern europe - Hackistan. Software security maker Fortify came up with this and they are going to show what Hackistan is all about at next weeks RSA conference in San Francisco.

A cliche? Hackers from eastern europe?
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January 30th, 2007
By Martin Hack
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Follow up from our Quantum Crypto article:
For the readers that were interested by this discussion, I would like to refer to the White Paper recently published by the SECOQC European Project, dealing with QKD and Cryptography.
Here is the link
http://www.secoqc.net/downloads/secoqc_crypto_wp.pdf
And here is the abstract
The SECOQC White Paper on Quantum Key Distribution is the outcome on a thorough consultation and discussion among the participants of the European project SECOQC (www.secoqc.net). Full article…
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January 30th, 2007
By Martin Hack
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In a surprise move the US apparently annexed my home state - Bavaria (Bayern).
Found at the Microsoft event site:

Welcome to Bavaria, Welcome to jodling area.
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January 29th, 2007
By Martin Hack
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Seven days to go, a week from today the biggest information security spectacle on the planet is going down. From February 5-9 the RSA Conference is coming to San Francisco. This will be my 9th time at the conference albeit the first time as an onlooker rather than a vendor. I’m looking forward to take a look and report about the latest trends in the industry.
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January 29th, 2007
By Martin Hack
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Symantec just announced that they’ll buy Utah based software maker Altiris for $830 million in cash. The full press release can be found here.
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