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Online Lecture - Ross Anderson: Information Hiding
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over 9 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
Over the last five years, techniques for hiding information have become a rapidly growing research topic. Its better-known aspects range from inserting imperceptible copyright marks in digital audio and video, through auctions and elections, to de-identifying...
Privacy: Google's power makes security officials nervous
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over 9 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
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Google's power makes security officials nervous. Google has fast become the Internet search engine everyone clicks on to find out nearly anything about anyone, including financial, political and other presumably private data. But national security officials...
A week in Redmond
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over 9 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
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During the last week, I have been on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond. We had the Quarterly Meeting of the worldwide Chief Security Advisors. During those meetings we usually meet with the products groups to discuss your needs and our plans.Additionally...
Organisations need a digital evidence plan
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over 9 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
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Businesses could lose legal disputes and miss out on insurance claims because of their inability to collect and preserve computer and internet-based evidence, experts have warned. While firms are investing heavily in disaster recovery plans for low-probability...
NSA granted Net location-tracking patent
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over 9 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
The National Security Agency has obtained a patent on a method of figuring out an Internet user's geographic location. Patent 6,947,978, granted Tuesday, describes a way to discover someone's physical location by comparing it to a "map" of Internet addresses...
Is the Firefox honeymoon over?
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over 9 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
Firefox not only has more vulnerabilities per month than Internet Explorer, but it is now surpassing Internet Explorer for the number of exploits available for public download in recent months! http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/index.php?p=103 Urs
Shared Computer Toolkit
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over 9 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
Have you ever had the taks to setup a computer that is used by several "public" users? Like at schools, libariries, Internet Cafés etc. Now we have the toolkit to do this - and it is pretty cool. We released it to web today and it can be found here...
Microsoft aquired Alacris
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over 9 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
Since quite some time we are working with Alacris on PKI projects. Alacris' idNexus was always a good and excellently integrated add-on to deliver what we are missing in our PKI, e.g. Registration Authority etc. Now, today we announced that we bought...
Beyond "Blaster" - MSRPC Evasions
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over 9 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
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With the advent of Windows XP Service Pack 2, which enhances Microsoft's RPC security immensely, we should start to see some relief from the manifold MSRPC holes that were ubiquitous over the last several years. However, new and obscure RPC services continue...
Companies urged to change their password policies
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over 9 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
In today's security climate, passwords are apparently no longer enough to guarantee user authentication. We see a lot more topics arround that aerea and sometimes the conclusions are opposite to each other. See also: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet...
Keyboard acoustic emanations attack
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over 9 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
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[berkeley] We examine the problem of keyboard acoustic emanations. We present a novel attack taking as input a 10-minute sound recording of a user typing English text using a keyboard, and then recovering up to 96% of typed characters . There is no need...
SONIA Incident Training
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over 9 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
Urs seems to be so fast, that I have no way in catching up with his blogging. Anyway, there is something I would like to give you some insights in. I assume that you know about MELANI ( www.melani.admin.ch ) the "Melde- und Analysestelle Internet"...
Welcome to the patterns & practices Security Wiki
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over 9 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
Welcome to the patterns & practices Security Wiki! This is where we put our latest thoughts and discoveries in application security. We are constantly talking to customers, industry experts, and security experts inside Microsoft to bring you the latest...
IE7: Hashes to the anti-fishing server? Why not!
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over 9 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
[ptorr] Why not use hashes for the Anti-Phishing Filter? Several people have asked why Internet Explorer 7 will send "real" URLs instead of hashes to the AP (Anti-Phishing) server. That's a good question, and I know it's a good question because it's the...
Psst... wanna know a secret? 20 Things They Don't Want You to Know
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over 9 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
Psssst! Wanna know a secret? How about a whole bunch of them? Insider tips will help you cut through hype when you shop, save money when you buy, and get the most out of products you already own. http://pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,122094,pg,1,00...
CISSP and (ISC)2
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over 9 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
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We just finished our CBK (Common Body of Knowledge) seminar, a one week training covering ten domains of security knowlegde: Access Control Systems and Methodology Applications and Systems Development Security Business Continuity Planning...
Internet satellite imagery under fire over security
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over 9 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
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Asian governments have expressed security concerns about easy access to detailed satellite images on the Internet, such as those used by rescuers in New Orleans, saying the technology could endanger sensitive sites. http://today.reuters.com/news.....
A major Internet attack: 6 ways to survive
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over 9 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
Facing the difficult task of securing systems, experts offer their advice. Given the increasing importance of the data stored on agency computer networks, perhaps one of the most important chapters in Federal Computer Week's Survivors Guide is on securing...
Court Rules Against Kazaa
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over 9 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
We know since quite a long time that often virus/trojan-infected files are distributed via Peer-Neworks as Kazaa and that this poses severe security risks. Now, a court in Austria decided that its users are breaching copyright laws as well: http:/...
Ruthless Use of Katrina
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over 9 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
This will be a pretty low-blog week as Urs and myself are attending a CISSP training.... Nevertheless, one thing is happening over and over again: Whenever people are hit by a catastrophy we see the spam and fraud to rise around this. How ruthless...
Increase in Mobile Viruses
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over 9 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
Vendors Claim Mobile Viruses Worsening. Two vendors of mobile anti-virus products made separate claims this week that attacks on mobile devices are becoming more serious. F-Secure said earlier this week that the Commwarrior B virus has made its first...