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  • Blog Post: APWG Releases Phishing Activity Trends

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has just released their Phishing Activity Trends Report for the month of December. Overall, the report showed a decrease in activity from the previous month; however, there were a few notable exceptions. It appears the number of unique phishing sites has increased...
    on 12 Mar 2008

  • Blog Post: Internet Explorer 8 (beta2) released

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    Last week Microsoft released IE8 Beta2, the faster, easier and safer successor of the existing Internet Explorer. As there are a lot of changes (new default settings, new support for standards, new features), it's definitely woth to try and test IE8. It's probably a good idea to start testing the own...
    on 3 Sep 2008

  • Blog Post: Microsoft out-of-band security bulletin release for IE

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    Microsoft has released an out-of-band security bulletin on March 30, 2010. The bulletin is being released to address new attacks against customers of Internet Explorer. Users of Internet Explorer 8 and Windows 7 are not vulnerable to these current attacks. However, the released update contains fixes...
    on 31 Mar 2010

  • Blog Post: Internet Explorer and Firefox Vulnerability Analysis Report

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    Jeff Jones on his blog about the Internet Explorer and Firefox Vulnerability Analysis Report: For most people, their web browser is central to their interaction with the Internet, connecting to global web sites and helping them consume online services providing everything from booking flights to banking...
    on 1 Dec 2007

  • Blog Post: A very long list of new Microsoft products for 2008...

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    Bink.nu has an extensive list of new software that Microsoft will be unleashing in the marketplace. See yourself: http://blogs.technet.com/tarpara/archive/2007/12/25/microsoft-s-new-year-is-gonna-bring-a-lot-of-change.aspx Urs
    on 28 Dec 2007

  • Blog Post: Internet Explorer security levels compared

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    As a couple of people are looking at their IE currently, I found some interesting information on Steve Riley’s Technet blog: "A pretty good question came across the newsgroups the other day. Someone was asking what are the differences between IE's "medium" and "medium-high" security settings. I did...
    on 16 Dec 2008

  • Blog Post: New Method IDs Phishing, Malicious Domains

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    At a closed-door security summit hosted on Yahoo’s Sunnyvale campus last week, a researcher demonstrated a new technique to more easily identify phishing and other malicious Websites. Dan Hubbard, vice president of security research for Websense, showed a tool Websense researchers have built that...
    on 12 Mar 2008

  • 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: How Wi-Fi Attackers are poisoning web browsers

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    Public Wi-Fi networks such as those in coffee shops and airports present a bigger security threat than ever to computer users because attackers can intercede over wireless to poison users' browser caches in order to present fake Web pages or even steal data at a later time. That’s according to security...
    on 6 Feb 2010

  • Blog Post: Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    We just made Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 available. This could be important if you are developing web applications or just if you are curious! :-) http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/Install.htm See also: http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=388331 http...
    on 12 Mar 2008

  • Blog Post: Web 2.0, meet Internet attack 2.0

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    The glitzy, interactive abilities of Web 2.0 have led to a profusion of new applications, but the technology also is bringing a new era of security vulnerabilities, a security researcher warned Wednesday. "Security was a challenge to begin with, but if anything it's getting harder in the Web 2.0 world...
    on 30 Apr 2008

  • Blog Post: Anatomy of a SQL Injection Incident

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    Blog Posting from Neil Carpenter: "A number of people are reporting that 10K+ Web sites have been hacked via a SQL injection attack that injected a link to a malicious .js file into text fields in their database. Since the CSS Security team here at Microsoft worked with several of these incidents...
    on 26 Mar 2008

  • 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: The first year of IE7

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    It’s been a little over a year since Microsoft released IE7 on Windows XP and for Windows Vista. According to internal Microsoft research based on data from Visual Sciences Corporation, there are over 300 million users are experiencing the web with IE7. This makes IE7 the second most popular browser...
    on 1 Dec 2007

  • Blog Post: Malvertising

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    Malvertising (malicious advertising) is a reasonably fresh take on an online criminal methodology that appears focused on the installation of unwanted or outright malicious software through the use of internet advertising media networks, exchanges and other user supplied content publishing services common...
    on 10 Dec 2007

  • Blog Post: Security Advisory 961051 - More information

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    Microsoft revised the Workarounds section of Security Advisory 961051. The Security Vulnerability Research & Defense team wanted to share more detail about the vulnerability and explains the additional workarounds here to help you protect your computers: http://blogs.technet.com/swi/archive/2008...
    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 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: Study: Consumers Don't Use Anti-Phishing Defenses

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    "Across the globe, Windows Internet Explorer 7 has more than 100 million users seeing green," VeriSign said in a press release about Extended Validation SSL technology earlier this month. About 5,000 sites are using the new technology, which gives users a "green bar" in their browsers when they prepare...
    on 7 Mar 2008

  • Blog Post: Report details hacks targeting Google and others

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    It’s been three weeks since Google announced that a sophisticated and coordinated hack attack dubbed Operation Aurora recently targeted it and numerous other U.S. companies. Now a leading computer forensic firm is providing the closest look so far at the nature of the attacks, and attackers that struck...
    on 6 Feb 2010

  • Blog Post: Sun and Apple Updates – A Sheer Nuisance!!

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    From Roger's blog post: http://blogs.technet.com/rhalbheer/archive/2008/03/19/sun-and-apple-update-a-sheer-nuisance.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/rhalbheer/archive/2008/03/25/sun-and-apple-updates-a-sheer-nuisance-part-2.aspx Well, a little bit in the same direction as my previus post: http://blogs...
    on 26 Mar 2008

  • Blog Post: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-078 – Critical avaiable now!

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-078 – Critical is now avaiable, patches are there and ready for download: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS08-078.mspx . Please install, update as soon as possible! Urs
    on 17 Dec 2008