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  • Blog Post: Outsource your code & you're more likely to be hacked

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    In a new report released by European information technology analysis group, Quocirca, organisations that admitted to being frequently hacked, all outsource at least some of their coding practice, with 90 percent outsourcing more than 40 percent! With this in mind the hacker’s future looks rosy as...
    on 11 Apr 2008

  • Blog Post: Passwords - once again...

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    Popular Passwords Include ‘1234′ and ‘password’ When 28,000 log-in details stolen from a well-known Web site were posted online recently, security firms discovered that a sizable minority of Internet users are incredibly naive at setting their own password. Four percent of users, opted for ‘password...
    on 2 Mar 2009

  • Blog Post: SANS Outlines the Top Cyber Security Risks

    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, and additional analysis and tutorial by the...
    on 17 Sep 2009

  • Blog Post: Study: IT Pros More Concerned about Data Loss than Spam, Malware

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    Microsoft’s Forefront team has posted a new study conducted for Microsoft by CMG Market Research measuring the perceptions of 1,274 information technology (IT) managers in the U.S. toward 12 security concerns, such as malware, temporary workers, hackers, phishing, and more. The survey found that Spyware...
    on 21 Dec 2007

  • Blog Post: Does Software Piracy Lead to Higher Malware Infection Rates?

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    Yes it does, at least according to a recently released report [PDF] by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) which basically correlates data on the known piracy rates for particular countries and their malware infection rates, using public sources. http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=4605&tag=col1;post...
    on 19 Oct 2009

  • Blog Post: The Latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (v5)

    Microsoft Swiss Security Team
    The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) provides an in-depth perspective on the changing threat landscape including software vulnerability disclosures and exploits, malicious software (malware), and potentially unwanted software. Using data derived from hundreds of millions of Windows users...
    on 12 Jan 2009