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Pendmoves v1.2: This update to Pendmoves adds support for 64-bit directories.

Depending on where I travel and with which customers I talk, patch management is still the number 1 issue coming up. Not only is the challenge to deploy the updates – much worse, there is still an awareness issue in a lot of markets. People know that they should patch but too often do not do it – and if they do, well, there is no real process attached to it. Additionally, one of the issues I often raise publically is, that a lot of companies still focus on Microsoft products "only". I basically like it, when they keep "our" part of the infrastructure current but there is a lot more…

Autoruns v11.42: This release fixes a bug in the parsing of network file paths introduced in v11.41.

Today is the day we launched Office 2013 officially to the broad market. This is a real cool step forward you should look at:

Autoruns v11.41: This Autoruns update reports the hosting image target of link shortcut references.

Typically January is the month where we are asked to make predictions on the trends for the New Year. I do not like this as I am an engineer and not a fortune tellerJ. But there are things we know and things we definitely need to drive this year. I would actually put it into the context of typical hygiene of any IT environment.

I was just made aware of a case study, which is a really interesting "attack" on a US company via VPN. It is sometimes not like it seems…

It seems that it is an eternity ago – and it is. Pretty much three years ago, Doug Cavit and me published a paper called the Cloud Computing Security Considerations. Even though it is three years, the paper is still worth reading as the content still applies. What we basically said was, that if you look at the Cloud, there are five areas of Considerations: