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• Out of band security update MS08-067

  Microsoft released the announced out of band security update MS08-067. Please read the bulletin carefully and then apply the update as soon as possible. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx In addition there is also an excellent... Posted Oct 27 2008, 06:30 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft, Consumer, Enterprise, Developer

• 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

• Microsoft Malware Removal Tool: Two million password stealers fingered

  Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool - a program that removes malware from Windows machines - detected password-stealing software from more than 2 million PCs in the first week after it was updated. One password stealer, called Taterf, alone... Posted Jun 25 2008, 03:40 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft, Consumer, antivirus, Enterprise, trends, Law Enforcment, Forensic

• Microsoft Security Assessment Tool v.3.5 (2008-06)

  The Microsoft Security Assessment Tool (MSAT) is a free tool designed to help organizations like yours assess weaknesses in your current IT security environment, reveal a prioritized list of issues, and help provide specific guidance to minimize those... Posted Jun 23 2008, 02:29 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft, OS, Enterprise, Policy, Guidance

• Microsoft Malware Removal Starter Kit (2008-06)

  Many small- and medium-sized organizations use antivirus software, and yet new viruses, worms, and other forms of malicious software (malware) continue to infect large numbers of computers in these Organizations. Malware proliferates at alarming speed... Posted Jun 23 2008, 02:26 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft, Consumer, antivirus, OS, Enterprise

• Draft guidance for securing servers (NIST)

  The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking comment on its draft guidelines for securing servers, released this week. NIST Special Publication 800-123, "Guide to General Server Security," makes recommendations for securing... Posted May 28 2008, 03:15 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, OS, Enterprise, Guidance

• Virtual machines aren't really more secure

  Roger A. Grimes: "I've been at several recent conferences where virtual machine (VM) and security “experts” were telling audiences how VM technology can be used to improve computer security. Wow! They are either drunk on the marketing Kool-Aid... Posted May 27 2008, 03:48 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Virtualization, OS, Enterprise

• Microsoft is winning the NAC war, expert says

  Security guru Joel Snyder from Opus One recently starred as the guest of a live Network World chat where he discussed the state of network access control. Snyder says that Microsoft is emerging as one of the clear winners of NAC, but that Microsoft's... Posted May 27 2008, 03:32 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft, Network, Enterprise, trends, Policy

• Windows Server 20008 Active Directory Certificate Services Upgrade and Migration Guide

  Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) provides customizable services for issuing and managing public key certificates used in software security systems that employ public key technologies. This document discusses the planning and implementation... Posted May 26 2008, 08:36 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft, OS, Enterprise, PKI

• Managing the Windows Vista Firewall

  If you're an IT pro who is looking a bit more seriously at Windows Vista for your enterprise environment, you should take a close look at the firewall. Once you realize what the Windows Vista firewall can do, you may want to renegotiate the agreement... Posted May 26 2008, 06:58 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft, Network, Consumer, OS, Enterprise, Developer, Policy, Strategy

• New Elevation PowerToys for Windows Vista

  Run as Administrator for third-party scripting tools Run as Another User Prompt Here as System for CMD and Windows PowerShell Drag-and-drop Elevation Gadget http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc510320.aspx Urs...( read more ) Share this post... Posted May 26 2008, 06:47 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft, Consumer, OS, Enterprise, Developer

• 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

• PGP adds encryption to Windows Mobile Smartphones

  PGP Corp. has introduced an encryption application that lets enterprise users protect all the data they carry around in their smartphones. PGP Mobile encrypts Windows Mobile-based data automatically, but still allows mobile data to be shared securely... Posted Apr 08 2008, 06:24 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Consumer, antivirus, Enterprise

• Black Hat: new operating systems security metric

  At the Black Hat Security Conference currently taking place in Amsterdam, researchers from the Zurich ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) have reported a new model for determining the security of operating systems. They don't just count the number... Posted Apr 03 2008, 07:37 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft, Consumer, antivirus, OS, Enterprise, trends

• Microsoft scoops up rootkit finder Komoku

  The start-up's rootkit detection technology will be added into Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare and Forefront security products. http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9899808-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5 Urs...( read more ) Share this... Posted Mar 29 2008, 06:38 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft, Consumer, antivirus, OS, Enterprise

• IBM: Apple Crumble @ Blackhat

  In addition to my previous blog post: http://blogs.technet.com/ms_schweiz_security_blog/archive/2008/03/29/black-hat-who-patches-security-holes-faster-microsoft-or-apple.aspx From IBM Internet Security Systems: http://blogs.iss.net/archive/AppleCrumble... Posted Mar 29 2008, 06:25 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft, Consumer, antivirus, OS, Enterprise, trends

• Linux Web servers broken into most often

  Security portal Zone-H , which documents attacks on and defacements of Web pages, has compiled statistics about the attacks within the last year. Apparently, Linux servers were successfully defaced twice as often as Windows servers. Apache servers were... Posted Mar 26 2008, 03:19 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft, OS, Enterprise, trends, Survey

• Microsoft buys U-Prove technology

  Microsoft Corp. hopes to beef up online privacy with the acquisition of the U-Prove technology, the company announced on Thursday. U-Prove was developed by Stefan Brands at Credentica Inc. to allow Internet users to disclose only the minimum amount of... Posted Mar 12 2008, 06:13 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft, Consumer, Enterprise, Identity Management, Developer

• 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

• Windows XP Service Pack 3 Overview

  Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes all previously released updates for the operating system. This update also includes a small number of new functionalities, which do not significantly change customers’ experience with the operating system. This... Posted Feb 28 2008, 03:53 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft, Consumer, OS, Enterprise

• Windows Server 2008 Security Guide released

  The Windows Server 2008 Security Guide provides customers with best practices, predefined security templates, and an automated deployment tool to help strengthen the security of servers running Windows Server 2008. The security recommendations in the... Posted Feb 28 2008, 12:43 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft, Consumer, OS, Enterprise

• Windows Server 2008 Resource Kit

  Last Friday the last of the Windows Server 2008 Security Resource Kit finally went to press! This was a project I had not really planned and so, to complete it in time, I brought in an amazing crew of co-authors. Together, we managed to put together 17... Posted Feb 27 2008, 07:41 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft, Enterprise

• Introducing SAFECode [Michael Howard]

  SAFECode, the Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code, introduced its first white paper, "Software Assurance: An Overview of Current Industry Best Practices." The organization was founded by Microsoft, Symantec, EMC, SAP and Juniper to advance... Posted Feb 21 2008, 07:15 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft, OS, Enterprise, Developer, Policy, Strategy

• Microsoft Forefront Client Security benchmark test (West Coast Lab)

  Microsoft Corporation commissioned West Coast Labs (WCL) to carry out a series of performance benchmarking tests and metric-based process evaluations of the following products: Microsoft Forefront Client Security McAfee Active VirusScan with McAfee ePO... Posted Feb 14 2008, 01:53 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft, email, Consumer, antivirus, OS, Enterprise, trends, Survey

• 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