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Time to say hello - and goodbye
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over 7 years ago
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Well, this is a strange day for me: Today in Bern we had the biggest launch ever in Microsoft's history: We launched Windows Vista and Office 2007 for General Availability - yes, you can now get one at your local store! It is there. So time to say...
Windows Live OneCare (v1.5) is released to manufacturing...
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over 7 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
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"Welcome back to all those that were on vacation, and a happy new year. As you may have noticed from relative inactivity in my blogging, it’s been quite a hectic time here on the product development team. We’ve been hard at work on our next release, and...
Why Windows Vista is not affected by MS07-004
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over 7 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
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There is an extremely interesting short statement by Michael Howard regarding MS07-004: The coding bug is in Vista but it does not have any effect: Read yourself: http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_howard/archive/2007/01/10/why-windows-vista-is-unaffected...
Evaluating Commercial Counter-Forensic Tools
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over 7 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
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This paper reviews the performance of six counter-forensic tools and highlight operational shortfalls that could permit the recovery of significant evidentiary data. In addition, each tool creates a distinct operational fingerprint that an analyst may...
Fundamental Computer Investigation Guide For Windows
Posted
over 7 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
1
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A pretty interesting document in my opinion. The interesting thing is, we are stating that "this guide is for IT Professionals in the United States" - well, it is publicly available and interesting for everybody involved in forensics. You can download...
Security Features vs. Convenience
Posted
over 7 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
"One of the most basic conundrums in computer security is the constant trade-off between security and usability. At the end of the day, if security is too complicated to use, then it simply won't be used. Even if a feature offers a good level of security...
The Surprising Security Threat: Your Printers...
Posted
over 7 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
Networked printers — yes, printers — can open your corporate network to malicious attacks. They need security patches. See the article by Deb Radcliff: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=277746&pageNumber...
Comparing Java and .NET Security: Lessons Learned and Missed
Posted
over 7 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
Very interesting and an amazing result... ;-) Urs http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~nrp3d/papers/computers_and_security-net-java.pdf
Vista: A best practice guide on how to configure BitLocker
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over 7 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
How to configure BitLocker and how to get BitLocker to rock in Windows Vista using best-practice methods. (Found on windowssecurity.com) http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Best-practice-guide-how-configure-BitLocker-Part1.html Urs
Microsoft Windows Vista Security Guide
Posted
over 7 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
It's there for a longer time, but I still get many requests about it's avaiability... So, here it is: The Windows Vista Security Guide! http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/security/guide.mspx Direct document download: http://www.microsoft...
Today's Update (or what happened to the missing ones)
Posted
over 7 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
There was quite some chatter about the "missing updates" for tonight and the question about what happened to them. Well, the answer is fairly simple: Our advanced notification is the best knowledge we have about the forthcomming update-release cycle the...