This is going to be cool. PDC is going to be at the Microsoft Corporate Campus this year. Taking place October 28-29, 2010. Sure beats driving through the California fires like we had to to get to the Conference in 2003. Anthony Tsim and I rented...

  NSA launches new security program called Perfect Citizen. The hope is that Perfect Citizen will hopefully help deter cyber attacks against critical government infrastructure such as utilities, electricity grids, and nuclear power plants. Hopefully...

  Scott Charney, VP of Microsoft Trustworthy Computing testifies before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform , on the benefits and risks of the federal government’s adoption of cloud computing. Hopefully the government will look...

  Microsoft by the numbers - The Official Microsoft Blog – News and Perspectives from Microsoft - Site Home - TechNet Blogs If you love numbers, then check out these numbers on how Microsoft’s doing. Post is by Frank Shaw, VP of Corporate Communications...

  we’re running a series of usability studies on our Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle website. The vanity URL for our site is www.microsoft.com/sdl , which will take you to http://www.microsoft.com/security/sdl/default.aspx . I’m glad we...

  Microsoft has recently migrated our blog platform and we’re mostly complete with it. If you haven’t seen posts from us in the last few days, that’s why. For the most part we’re up and running now on a new blogging platform ,and good to go. Live...

  You’ll see a lot of stories on my blog where I just provide links to articles that I think are relevant. If you read the articles, you’ll see that my extra commentary isn’t that necessary. I provide these links so that folks can see the issues...

  Updated Vast portions of the German internet were unavailable for more than an hour on Wednesday, after a snafu with the country's top level .de domain. German net crippled by top level glitch • The Register

  Facing increasing pressure from the media and users, Facebook has called an all hands meeting today at 4 PM Pacific, to discuss the company’s overall privacy strategy according to sources inside the company. Facebook has come under increasing scrutiny...

  Hackers have reportedly targeted a number of websites powered by the popular WordPress platform. Hackers target WordPress in large scale attack | TG Daily

  The Security Development Lifecycle : Microsoft & Adobe: Protecting our customers together

  Privacy and Data Security : University of Minnesota.

  “We’re back up. We had a network issue that has now been fixed. Thanks for your patience!” A “network issue” is quite a broad explanation, though we suppose specifics are quite simply not applicable, as folks just want to log in and do what they...

  The latest update says, “Google Mail service has already been restored for some users, and we expect a resolution for all users in the near future. Please note this time frame is an estimate and may change.” Google partially resolves Gmail crash...

  Facebook Executive Answers Reader Questions - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

Interactive Seminar - The Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Paving the Way for Secure Software Development Overview A well-defined, repeatable software development process inhibits the emergence of software vulnerabilities, reduces business...

  Marius writes, “A security expert that build his career on identifying vulnerabilities in Microsoft software now says that the company has come a long way. Marc Maiffret , a former hacker turned legitimate security researcher, and now chief security...

  On April 29th, Microsoft Technical Fellow, Mark Russinovich, will be leading a discussion around the process of planning, testing, assessing and rolling out Windows 7 in an enterprise organization. Mark will be joined by a panel of IT professionals...

  Archer GRC Content Library – Q1 Update Archer has integrated the Microsoft SDL as an Authoritative Source in their Archer GRC Framework. George

  ARCast.TV - Behind the Cloud::How Microsoft Deploys Azure | ARCast.TV | Channel 9

  The year is 1975. Gerald Ford is in the White House, South Vietnam falls, Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in the "Thrilla in Manila" world championship boxing match, the late-night comedy show NBC's Saturday Night (later called Saturday...

  Informal Survey of RSA Conference 2010 Attendees Finds Most Organizations Have Active Software Security Programs in Place Poll Finds Software Security Top Priority for Enterprises -- SAN MATEO, Calif., March 9 /PRNewswire/ --

Good read on some threats we can expect from the cloud. RSA: Report Reveals 7 Cloud Computing 'Sins' -- Redmond Developer News

  RSA Conference: Microsoft Releases Authentication System Under OSP -- Redmond Developer News

  Jabulani Leffall writes, “Microsoft released a security advisory on Monday describing a zero-day vulnerability involving some older Windows versions and VBScript when used with Internet Explorer. The vulnerability permits a complicated exploit...