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  • Blog Post: 9 Ways to Increase the Security of Your Laptop While on the Road

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    Using your laptop to get work done away from your office or on the road is becoming widely accepted. But this rapid growth in laptop computing has made portable systems the target for theft around the world. If your laptop computer is stolen, company information can be exposed, as well as your personal...
    on 27 Nov 2009

  • Blog Post: Windows Server 2008 Administrative Delegation Techniques

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    Ever since Microsoft released Windows 2000 way back when, the options for delegating certain tasks have been available. The concepts of delegation can be a bit confusing, but in the core of what the delegation provides is essential to an efficient network. Without the use of delegations, you are stuck...
    on 10 Dec 2007

  • Blog Post: Using Autoplay on Vista To Stop Attacks (Islandhoping)

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    The technique of island hopping—penetrating a network through a weak link and then hopping around systems within that network—has been around for years. But it continues to take on new dimensions. In today's security-conscious IT environments, people are often the weakest link, and malicious users are...
    on 30 Dec 2007

  • Blog Post: THE CABLE GUY: Network Policy Server

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    Nothing’s more critical to the health of your enterprise than a secure network, and Network Policy Server (NPS), new in Windows Server 2008, is an important tool for managing access. It lets you implement organization-wide policies, providing centralized authentication, authorization, and accounting...
    on 28 Dec 2007

  • Blog Post: One-fifth of Windows apps go unpatched

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    Updates are available, but users haven't installed them, says Secunia. One in five applications installed on Windows PCs are missing security patches, a Copenhagen-based vulnerability tracker has reported. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9054502&source...
    on 29 Dec 2007

  • 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: Newest Security Reports Show Changing Threats

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    Scott Hogg, Core Networking and Security: "I find it useful to seek out new perspectives on the ever-changing security realm. By reviewing these [security] reports, we can gain a greater understanding of the emerging Internet threats our organizations are facing." Includes links to various security...
    on 20 Mar 2010

  • Blog Post: So Much Data, So Little Encryption

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    If you go solely by top-level stats on encryption use, you'll come away feeling pretty secure — 86 percent of the 499 business technology professionals responding to our InformationWeek Analytics State of Encryption Survey employ encryption of some type. But that finding doesn't begin to tell the real...
    on 27 Nov 2009

  • Blog Post: Microsoft Files Patent for HoneyMonkey Exploit Finder

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    Microsoft has filed a patent claim for the Strider HoneyMonkey malware/exploit detection system created by our internal research unit. The claim, currently being reviewed at Peer-to-Patent. The HoneyMonkey system, first discussed in August 2005, is best described as an automated Web patrol that uses...
    on 29 Dec 2007

  • Blog Post: Where in the World do Viruses come from?

    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 trends from the Microsoft Security Intelligence...
    on 17 Sep 2009

  • Blog Post: Black Hat: new operating systems security metric

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    At the Black Hat Security Conference currently taking place in Amsterdam, researchers from the Zurich ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) have reported a new model for determining the security of operating systems. They don't just count the number of holes and how critical they are, but also...
    on 3 Apr 2008

  • Blog Post: Windows 7 Security Primer

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    Good series of articles about Windows 7 security: http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Windows-7-Security-Primer-Part1.html http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Windows-7-Security-Primer-Part2.html http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Windows-7-Security-Primer-Part3.html These articles cover...
    on 3 Jan 2011

  • 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: C64 as a webserver?! ;-)

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    An entire Web site has been 100% developed on the Commodore 64. The little keyboard box you see there and that big huge disk drive is where the Web page is stored. So… if it takes a while for the Web site to load on your computer, especially the picture, remember the computer is only 1 Mhz in speed and...
    on 2 Mar 2009

  • Blog Post: Microsoft adds new Anti-Exploit APIs into Windows

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    Microsoft has announced plans to add new anti-exploitation APIs into Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3 and Windows Server 2008 as part of a larger plan to secure the Windows ecosystem. According to Michael Howard, a senior program manager in Microsoft's security unit, the delivery of the new APIs...
    on 4 Feb 2008

  • Blog Post: Windows 7 and Security

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    As Windows 7 is not too far away and as many are allready using or testing Windows 7, here a list of interesting documentation: What's New in Windows 7 for IT Pros (Beta) http://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/library/dd349334(en-us).aspx Windows 7 Security Enhancements http://technet.microsoft.com...
    on 18 Mar 2009

  • Blog Post: Slow And Silent Targeted Attacks On The Rise

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    And another one in the same direction: The most determined cyber criminals don't necessarily work fast when they breach a network, and their infiltration is often silent and undetectable. But it's this brand of "low and slow" targeted attack that can also be the most deadly, security experts say:...
    on 12 Jan 2009

  • Blog Post: Windows Vista SP1 documentation

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (Generic Overview and entry point) http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/90a564b9-34af-4a6b-937f-324e1862244b1033.mspx?mfr=true Some interesting topics out of the hole documentation: Overview of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 When developing Windows Vista...
    on 17 Dec 2007

  • Blog Post: Security Guru Calls Chrome OS's Security Claims "Idiotic"

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    Noted security guru Bruce Schneier, chief technologist at BT, has scoffed at Google's claims about its new OS, just announced yesterday. According to the Google blog post, Chrome OS represents a complete redesign of the underlying security architecture of the OS "so that users don't have to deal with...
    on 13 Jul 2009

  • 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: Black Hat: Who patches security holes faster, Microsoft or Apple?

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    Apple's teasing commercials that imply its software is safer than Microsoft's may not quite match the facts, according to new research revealed at the Black Hat conference on Thursday. Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology looked at how many times over the past six years the two...
    on 29 Mar 2008

  • Blog Post: Tech Insight: Microsoft's IPSec and NAP/NAC

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    Windows' built-in security capabilities offer endpoint alternative to NAP/NAC Microsoft’s support of the IP Security (IPSec) standard was enhanced with the release of Windows Vista this year, and interest in the technology will likely grow with the introduction of Windows 2008. For smaller organizations...
    on 29 Dec 2007

  • Blog Post: A guide to basic computer forensics

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    While some investigations rely on highly trained professionals using expensive tools and complex techniques, there are easier, cheaper methods you can use for basic investigation and analysis. In this article, we will focus on computer forensic techniques that are readily accessible to you as a mainstream...
    on 12 Mar 2008

  • Blog Post: Draft guidance for securing servers (NIST)

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking comment on its draft guidelines for securing servers, released this week. NIST Special Publication 800-123, "Guide to General Server Security," makes recommendations for securing server operating systems and software in addition to maintaining...
    on 28 May 2008

  • Blog Post: Virtual machines aren't really more secure

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    Roger A. Grimes: "I've been at several recent conferences where virtual machine (VM) and security “experts” were telling audiences how VM technology can be used to improve computer security. Wow! They are either drunk on the marketing Kool-Aid, misinformed, or simply trying to misrepresent VM capabilities...
    on 27 May 2008