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• Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-078 – Critical avaiable now!

  Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-078 – Critical is now avaiable, patches are there and ready for download: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS08-078.mspx . Please install, update as soon as possible! Urs...( read more ) Share this post... Posted Dec 17 2008, 12:49 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, IE, Windows, Microsoft, Network, Consumer, antivirus, OS, Enterprise, Developer

• Security Advisory 961051 - More information

  Microsoft revised the Workarounds section of Security Advisory 961051. The Security Vulnerability Research & Defense team wanted to share more detail about the vulnerability and explains the additional workarounds here to help you protect your computers... Posted Dec 16 2008, 08:58 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, IE, Windows, Microsoft, Consumer, antivirus, Enterprise, Developer, Guidance

• Internet Explorer 8 (beta2) released

  Last week Microsoft released IE8 Beta2, the faster, easier and safer successor of the existing Internet Explorer. As there are a lot of changes (new default settings, new support for standards, new features), it's definitely woth to try and test IE8... Posted Sep 03 2008, 02:17 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, IE, Windows, Microsoft, Consumer, OS, Enterprise, Developer, trends

• Web 2.0, meet Internet attack 2.0

  The glitzy, interactive abilities of Web 2.0 have led to a profusion of new applications, but the technology also is bringing a new era of security vulnerabilities, a security researcher warned Wednesday. "Security was a challenge to begin with,... Posted Apr 30 2008, 03:47 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, IE, Consumer, antivirus, Enterprise, Developer, trends

• Microsoft calls for talks on Internet trust, safety

  Microsoft today called for broad discussions about the safety of the Internet in an initiative it dubbed "End to End Trust" in a white paper released during the RSA Conference that opened today in San Francisco. In a keynote address at the security conference... Posted Apr 11 2008, 06:16 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, IE, Windows, Microsoft, Virtualization, email, Network, Consumer, antivirus, OS, Enterprise, Identity Management, Developer, trends, WIFI, PKI, Policy, Strategy, NAP IPSEC, Remote Access

• New Method IDs Phishing, Malicious Domains

  At a closed-door security summit hosted on Yahoo’s Sunnyvale campus last week, a researcher demonstrated a new technique to more easily identify phishing and other malicious Websites. Dan Hubbard, vice president of security research for Websense, showed... Posted Mar 12 2008, 06:05 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, IE, Consumer, antivirus, Enterprise, Developer, trends

• APWG Releases Phishing Activity Trends

  The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has just released their Phishing Activity Trends Report for the month of December. Overall, the report showed a decrease in activity from the previous month; however, there were a few notable exceptions. It appears... Posted Mar 12 2008, 05:50 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, IE, Consumer, antivirus, Enterprise, trends, Survey

• Study: Consumers Don't Use Anti-Phishing Defenses

  "Across the globe, Windows Internet Explorer 7 has more than 100 million users seeing green," VeriSign said in a press release about Extended Validation SSL technology earlier this month. About 5,000 sites are using the new technology, which gives users... Posted Mar 07 2008, 04:11 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, IE, Windows, Microsoft, Consumer, antivirus, OS, Enterprise, trends, Survey

• Security for the youngest internet users - Security4Kids

  Have you ever heard about www.security4kids.ch ? If not, visiting the site should be one of your tasks for today! Especially if you’ve got children aged 7-15 yourself. But let’s go back to the beginning. The website www.security4kids.ch (in German and... Posted Feb 21 2008, 06:47 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, IE, Windows, Microsoft, email, Consumer, Backup, antivirus, OS, trends

• Minimizing User Rights Can Increase Security

  Taking a least-privilege approach to user accounts is a key part of any in-depth defense strategy, many analysts and security pros say. "I think it's very important … not even just as [a component] of security, but in the broader sense [of] risk posed... Posted Feb 07 2008, 02:42 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Office, IE, Windows, Microsoft, email, Consumer, antivirus, OS, Enterprise, Developer, trends, Policy, Strategy

• New Microsoft Security Vulnerability Research and Defense blog

  The Security Vulnerability Research & Defense blog’s intent is to provide more information about Microsoft vulnerabilities, mitigations and workarounds, and active attacks. http://blogs.technet.com/swi/ Urs...( read more ) Share this post: Read More... Posted Dec 28 2007, 05:21 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Office, IE, Windows, Microsoft, SQL, email, Consumer, Backup, antivirus, OS, Enterprise, Developer, WIFI, PKI, Policy

• A very long list of new Microsoft products for 2008...

  Bink.nu has an extensive list of new software that Microsoft will be unleashing in the marketplace. See yourself: http://blogs.technet.com/tarpara/archive/2007/12/25/microsoft-s-new-year-is-gonna-bring-a-lot-of-change.aspx Urs...( read more ) Share this... Posted Dec 28 2007, 05:13 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Office, IE, Windows, Microsoft, SQL, Consumer, antivirus, OS, Enterprise, Developer, trends, Strategy

• Malvertising

  Malvertising (malicious advertising) is a reasonably fresh take on an online criminal methodology that appears focused on the installation of unwanted or outright malicious software through the use of internet advertising media networks, exchanges and... Posted Dec 10 2007, 04:47 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, IE, Consumer, Enterprise, trends

• Internet Explorer and Firefox Vulnerability Analysis Report

  Jeff Jones on his blog about the Internet Explorer and Firefox Vulnerability Analysis Report: For most people, their web browser is central to their interaction with the Internet, connecting to global web sites and helping them consume online services... Posted Dec 01 2007, 02:50 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, IE, Microsoft, Consumer, Enterprise

• The first year of IE7

  It’s been a little over a year since Microsoft released IE7 on Windows XP and for Windows Vista. According to internal Microsoft research based on data from Visual Sciences Corporation, there are over 300 million users are experiencing the web with IE7... Posted Dec 01 2007, 02:46 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, IE, Microsoft, Consumer, Enterprise