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Blog Post: Microsoft is winning the NAC war, expert says

Microsoft Swiss Security Team

Security guru Joel Snyder from Opus One recently starred as the guest of a live Network World chat where he discussed the state of network access control. Snyder says that Microsoft is emerging as one of the clear winners of NAC, but that Microsoft's technology is a foundation from which to build, not...

on 27 May 2008
Blog Post: Managing the Windows Vista Firewall

Microsoft Swiss Security Team

If you're an IT pro who is looking a bit more seriously at Windows Vista for your enterprise environment, you should take a close look at the firewall. Once you realize what the Windows Vista firewall can do, you may want to renegotiate the agreement you have for that third-party security suite to remove...

on 26 May 2008
Blog Post: New Attack Cracks Common Wi-Fi Encryption in a Minute

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 the attack to a new level, according to Dragos...

on 5 Sep 2009
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
Blog Post: Pentagon Searches for ‘Digital DNA’ to Identify Hackers

Microsoft Swiss Security Team

One of the trickiest problems in cyber security is trying to figure who’s really behind an attack. Darpa, the Pentagon agency that created the Internet, is trying to fix that, with a new effort to develop the “cyber equivalent of fingerprints or DNA” that can identify even the best-cloaked hackers. ...

on 10 Feb 2010
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