We got an increase on helpdesk calls in different subsidiaries with regards to a mail that is circulating: The mail claims to be coming from admin@microsoft.com and provides a link to an IE7 (Beta) download site. As always: This is spam and a fake. ...

I read this article today Surprise, Microsoft Listed as Most Secure OS . Hmm, actually I like the article (obviously) even though there are a few things I do not understand: To me, Microsoft is a company, Windows the OS - but this is not too important...

Your last line of defense is: Well, the user. In order to help you to address this, we published a Security Awareness Kit, pretty cool stuff. You can get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/understanding/awareness.mspx Roger

It is really interesting to see: At the moment there seems to be a big race to find the first real Windows Vista vulnerability and to go public with it. I know that there are some reports out there claiming that the found THE single biggest issue in Vista...

You remeber for sure the Root DNS Attacks earlier this year, where a DDoS attacked different root servers. There is a pretty good analysis paper by ICANN published now: http://www.icann.org/announcements/factsheet-dns-attack-08mar07.pdf Gives some...

We launched Windows Vista for Businesses End of November and for the public just a little bit more than one month ago - and now, it started, what had to be expected. The press, the analysts, and the community discuss about the security of Windows Vista...

Well, we are discussing about Trojan Horses and targeted Trojans all over the place. There is an excellent video showing how Trojan horses work :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs3SfNANtig Roger

There is a nice article, where Symantec talks about Windows Vista: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2184521/symantec-clears-vista-malware They quote the Symantec report and then talk to a person from Sophos. Let's look at a few quotes: Graham...