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How To Survive The Worst PC Disasters
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over 7 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
It's not directly security related, but if you have to recover from a disaster: http://tech.msn.com/howto/articlepcw.aspx?cp-documentid=4918287 Urs
10 tips for maintaining a healthy home network
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over 7 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
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Once your network is up and running, it's up to you to keep it healthy. This means incorporating all of the security features that come with your operating system, whether it's Windows Vista or Windows XP, and taking care of your network hardware properly...
"Microsoft’s having the shortest average patch development time", says Symantec
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over 7 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
Symantec acknowledges that Microsoft’s having the shortest average patch development time: “Of the five operating systems tracked in the first six months of 2007 (figure 18), Microsoft had the shortest average patch development time at 18 days, based...
Securing a gateway to your enterprise: Web Services
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over 7 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
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How to secure a gateway to your enterprise? How to secure webservices? See yourself: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/sectip/st1007.mspx Urs
Scott Charney on Microsofts commitments to privacy (Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group)
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over 7 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
The Daily Dashboard interviews Microsoft's Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing (TwC) Group, about Microsoft's commitment to privacy and robust efforts to build greater trust in the Internet and e-commerce https...
Conducting Private Business in Today's Public World
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over 7 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
On Tuesday October 23, two Microsoft executives, Scott Charney and Ben Fathi, present keynotes at the IAPP Privacy Academy (San Francisco) and the RSA Europe Conference (London) respectively. They highlight recently completed research findings that show...
Microsoft Security Intelligence Report: Webcasts
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over 7 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
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Let me just add som more information on webcasts arround the SIRv3 Report: Security Intelligence Report (SIR) Overview Thursday , November 1, 2007 11:30am Microsoft Security Intelligence Report: Overview...
Microsoft Security Intelligence Report
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over 7 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) provides an in-depth perspective on the changing threat landscape including software vulnerability disclosures and exploits, malicious software (malware), and potentially unwanted software. Each individual...
Steve Riley: Myth vs. reality: Wireless SSIDs
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over 7 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
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Good article on SSIDs and why it doesn't make sense (well at least in most cases) to hide the SSID in a Wireless environment. http://blogs.technet.com/steriley/archive/2007/10/16/myth-vs-reality-wireless-ssids.aspx Urs
XSSDetect - Code Analysis Tool
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over 7 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
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One of the biggest, constant problems we've seen our enterprise customers deal with and we here at Microsoft have to also contend with is that of the XSS (Cross Site Scripting) bug. It's very common and unfortunately, still an issue we have to deal with...
ENISA Quarterly
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over 7 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
"Social Networking (SN) has emerged as one of the most successful social and technological phenomena of the 21st century. User numbers have increased rapidly since the first social networks emerged in 2004. MySpace and Facebook, for example, are widely...
Virtual rootkits not a problem, claim researchers...
Posted
over 7 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
Rootkits that use virtualization techniques should not present detection problems, according to researchers from Carnegie Mellon and Stanford universities in the US. Working with virtualization technology vendors VMware and XenSource, the researchers...
Security researchers look beyond Vista
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over 7 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
The improved security in Microsoft's newest software products may leave some security researchers looking elsewhere for work. That was the message that some security professionals took away from BlueHat, an event last week on Microsoft's campus that...