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Blog Post: Minimizing User Rights Can Increase Security

Microsoft Swiss Security Team

Taking a least-privilege approach to user accounts is a key part of any in-depth defense strategy, many analysts and security pros say. "I think it's very important … not even just as [a component] of security, but in the broader sense [of] risk posed to the business in IT," said Scott Crawford, an...

on 7 Feb 2008
Blog Post: Europe still top source of spam

Microsoft Swiss Security Team

European spam networks have pumped out more unsolicited e-mail than those in the U.S. for the third month in a row, according to security vendor Symantec. Symantec called this a "significant shift" in spam trends as, historically, compromised U.S. computers have been used to send spam, and many spammers...

on 7 Feb 2008
Blog Post: Ninety-five percent of e-mails sent in 2007 are junk

Microsoft Swiss Security Team

Barracuda Networks released its annual spam report, which shows between 90 to 95 percent of all e-mail sent in 2007 is spam. This is based on an analysis of more than 1 billion daily e-mail messages sent to its more than 50,000 customers worldwide. The above figures represent an increase from the...

on 17 Dec 2007
Blog Post: 'Out of office' messages turned into spam relays

Microsoft Swiss Security Team

Spammers have found a new trick that gets around many current anti-spam filters: abusing the "out of the office" auto-respond feature found in legitimate webmail services. http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=11544 Urs

on 28 Feb 2008
Blog Post: Microsoft Security Compliance Manager released

Microsoft Swiss Security Team

The Security Compliance Manager will help you accelerate knowledge to merge best practices, customize once to centralize decision making, and export to multiple formats to enable monitoring, verification, and compliance. The tool is designed to help accelerate your organization’s ability to efficiently...

on 9 Apr 2010
Blog Post: New Microsoft Security Vulnerability Research and Defense blog

Microsoft Swiss Security Team

The Security Vulnerability Research & Defense blog’s intent is to provide more information about Microsoft vulnerabilities, mitigations and workarounds, and active attacks. http://blogs.technet.com/swi/ Urs

on 29 Dec 2007
Blog Post: 3.7 Billion Phishing Emails were sent in the last 12 Months

Microsoft Swiss Security Team

[Network World] Cyber criminals sent 3.7 billion phishing emails over the last year, in a bid to steal money from unsuspecting web users, says CPP. Research by the life assistance company revealed that 55 percent of phishing scams are fake bank emails, which try and dupe web users into giving hackers...

on 18 Jun 2010
Blog Post: Microsoft support lifecycle for service Packs

Microsoft Swiss Security Team

Perhaps a good idea to do some end-of-year cleanup! You can find what product services packs are supported here: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifesupsps Urs

on 16 Dec 2008
Blog Post: Security for the youngest internet users - Security4Kids

Microsoft Swiss Security Team

Have you ever heard about www.security4kids.ch ? If not, visiting the site should be one of your tasks for today! Especially if you’ve got children aged 7-15 yourself. But let’s go back to the beginning. The website www.security4kids.ch (in German and French and soon also in Italian) was launched...

on 21 Feb 2008
Blog Post: Microsoft Forefront Client Security benchmark test (West Coast Lab)

Microsoft Swiss Security Team

Microsoft Corporation commissioned West Coast Labs (WCL) to carry out a series of performance benchmarking tests and metric-based process evaluations of the following products: Microsoft Forefront Client Security McAfee Active VirusScan with McAfee ePO Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition...

on 14 Feb 2008
Blog Post: Microsoft calls for talks on Internet trust, safety

Microsoft Swiss Security Team

Microsoft today called for broad discussions about the safety of the Internet in an initiative it dubbed "End to End Trust" in a white paper released during the RSA Conference that opened today in San Francisco. In a keynote address at the security conference, Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy...

on 11 Apr 2008
Blog Post: Germany provides a secure way to deal with spam

Microsoft Swiss Security Team

"In theory, stopping spam is easy: just make it uneconomic to send millions of messages by charging for each one sent, or make senders authenticate their identity to stop address spoofing and simplify blocking. In practice, that would involve building a secure, parallel email infrastructure linking electronic...

on 8 Mar 2011