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Researchers Find a New Way to Attack the Cloud
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over 5 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
Amazon and Microsoft have been pushing cloud-computing services as a low-cost way to outsource raw computing power, but the products may introduce new security problems that have yet to be fully explored, according to researchers at the University of...
Security Risk as People Use Same Password on All Websites
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over 5 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
The research reveals that nearly half (46 percent) of Britons use the same password to login to their banking, shopping and social networking sites with a further 54 percent confessing to using variations of the same password. And with the average person...
The Phishing Guide: Understanding and Preventing Phishing Attacks
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over 5 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
This paper [PDF] covers the technologies and security flaws phishers exploit to conduct their attacks, and provides detailed vendor-neutral advice on what organisations can do to prevent future attacks. Security professionals and customers can use this...
Introduction to Malware Analysis — Free Webcast
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over 5 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
From Lenny Zeltser: "My popular malware analysis course has helped IT administrators, security professionals, and malware specialists fight malicious code in their organizations. In this free webcast, I introduce the process of reverse-engineering malicious...
Windows Exploit Programming Primer
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over 5 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
From SecurityTube: "We kick started the exploit code research series on SecurityTube by creating the assembly language primer (13 videos), buffer overflow basics (nine videos), and format string (in progress) exploitation videos. However, we concentrated...
New Attack Cracks Common Wi-Fi Encryption in a Minute
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over 5 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
Computer scientists in Japan say they've developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. Last November, security researchers first showed how WPA could be broken, but the Japanese researchers have taken...
Top 100 Virus-Infected Web Sites Exposed
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over 5 years ago
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Microsoft Swiss Security Team
Simply visiting one of the "Top 100 Dirtiest" Web sites - without downloading or even clicking anything - could expose your computer to infection and put your personal information into the hands of criminals, anti-virus software company Norton Symantec...
SANS Outlines the Top Cyber Security Risks
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over 5 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
SANS released the "Top Cyber Security Risks" report which covers March-August 2009. The report features attack data from TippingPoint intrusion prevention systems protecting 6,000 organizations, vulnerability data from 9,000,000 systems compiled by Qualys...
Microsoft SDL team releases new security tools
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over 5 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
The Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) team at Microsoft released two security testing tools. BinScope Binary Analyzer BinScope is a Microsoft verification tool that analyzes binaries on a project-wide level to ensure that they have been built in...
Hacking Your Life (oh oh...)
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over 5 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
A Virginia woman discovered that her married boyfriend had other girlfriends, and she decided to seek revenge online. According to federal prosecutors, she hired computer hackers to help. Elaine Cioni paid hackers $100 [U.S] for the password to her...
Where in the World do Viruses come from?
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over 5 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
The U.S. continues to dominate as the main source of the world's viruses, producing 15.9 percent of all viruses. It is followed closely by Brazil, which produces 14.5 percent (similar levels to last month's 14.1 percent). You can see more about virus...
Inside the Password-Stealing Business: The Who and How of Identity Theft
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over 5 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
With shopping and banking transactions occurring primarily online today, password stealing has become a common cyber crime. Whatever the vector of attack, in many cases some sort of password-stealing malware makes its way onto victims’ computers. McAfee...
Cybersecurity Today: The Wild, Wild West
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over 5 years ago
by
Microsoft Swiss Security Team
If you purchased a brand new computer today with all the latest security software and plug it into the Internet, how long would it be before the first hacker probed it? Answer : About four hours... http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=12100CEDYE09...