Hello, The free Security Response Readiness Assessment is designed to help you identify, monitor, respond to, and resolve security incidents and vulnerabilities in your IT environment. It consists of a few short questions about your organization’s...

Hello, “One more thing to worry about: Your brand-spanking-new computer could be infected with a virus that will raid your online bank account. On Thursday, Microsoft said it had discovered several new computers, fresh from Chinese factory...

Hello, Lync 2013 reaches RTM. What a product!!! See details: Lync 2013 reaches RTM! http://blogs.technet.com/b/lync/archive/2012/10/11/lync-2013-is-finished.aspx regards, Alexandre

Hello, Attack Surface Analyzer is developed by the Trustworthy Computing Security group. It is the same tool used by Microsoft's internal product groups to catalogue changes made to operating system attack surface by the installation of new software...

Operation b70: Microsoft Reaches Settlement with Defendants in Nitol Botnet Case Key Messages Microsoft reached a settlement with the defendants in the Nitol botnet case and will be dismissing the lawsuit pursuant to the agreement. ...

Hello, Because we share an interest in cybersecurity and public safety threats, I wanted to reach out to let you know that the Microsoft Digital Crimes has significantly helped stop the spread of the developing Nitol botnet and, as a result of this...

Hello, Are you aware about what Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit is doing to combat Human Trafficking? Do you know the Microsoft's PhotoDNA Technology? Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit and Microsoft Research announced the recipients of the RFP we announced...

Exchange Risk Assessment Program - ExRAP This post is only to point for the ExRAP's Datasheet link: http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/C/1/1C15BA51-840E-498D-86C6-4BD35D33C79E/Datasheet_ExRAP.pdf And A copy here in .PNG format: Page...

H3ll0, What's Operation b71? Have you heard about ZEUS malware? What about BotNets? You can understand how Microsoft joined forces to takedown ZEUS malware and related BotNets. Background Botnets, or armies of malware-infected computers, are...

H3ll0, Three years ago I attended a Cyber Security Congress with presenters from several countries and organizations: CIA, FBI, Scotland Yard, Spain's Cybercrime specialists, Brazil's Federal Police, and other specialists from different private's organizations...

H3ll0, Security isn't a destiny itself, it's a journey. How safe this journey will be? Depends on a lot of factors. Below just a few: - Who's in the command of the journey? - What's places will be visited during the journey? - What's the size of...

H3LL0, " C is for Cookie. That's good enough for me. Cookie, cookie, cookie starts with C " sings the Cookie Monster from Sesame Street. Let's imagine Cookier Monster started learning hacking techniques then he found a way to make a cookie very...

H3LL0, Every year the Web security community produces a stunning amount of new hacking techniques published in various white papers, blogs, magazine articles, mailing lists, wikis, and many others places. Within the thousands of pages are the latest...

Hello, 2011 was a significant year for data security, with some of the biggest data breaches in our history reported. So far in 2011, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse tracked 535 breaches involving 30.4 million sensitive records. This brings the...

Hello dear readers, Published reports' statistics show " Cross-Site Scripting Attacks (XSS Attacks) " as the number one attack for exploited vulnerabilities on the WEB sites. Are you aware about how to mitigate against it? Is there a silver bullet...

Hello, Most of IT professionals and even end users when thinking about Security are primarily concerned with the technical aspects, for instance: strong passwords' policies, 3 Authentication Factors, a lot of Firewalls, Anti-Phishing, AntiMalwares...

( Active Directory Topology Diagrammer - ADTD ) Hello, At my quick session delivered at TechEd Brazil 2011 on last September I demonstrated how to use the Active Directory Topology Diagrammer (ADTD) tool aka ADMap. The Microsoft Active Directory...

Lync Conversation Translator Download Conversation Translator Conversation Translator provides a real-time language translation service for Lync instant messaging (IM) conversations. You can download from this link: http...

A research lab has discovered on computers in Europe a worm very similar to Stuxnet , according to a blog posted Tuesday by the IT security provider Symantec. Researchers at the lab, which Symantec did not identify, named the new worm Duqu [dyü...

Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator - Released on October, 12th 2011 - version 17.8 http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/10/12/released-v17-8-of-the-exchange-2010-mailbox-server-role-requirements-calculator.aspx

Hello, It's very common to find mailboxes without a size limit during a Risk Assessment for Messaging's environments using Exchange Server. In general such situation can put your Mailboxes' storage Capacity Planning under risk. Why? Because you...

Hello, I delivered a quick session last week at TechEd Brazil 2011 . During the presentation I promissed to publish a link for the participants get access to a PowerShell's Daily Operations script for Exchange 2007/2010 . As you know Microsoft...