Author: Matt Thomlinson, General Manager, Trustworthy Computing Targeted attacks by determined adversaries (also known as Advanced Persistent Threats or APTs) have been a hot topic recently. Although targeted attacks continue to make up a small fraction of the attacks we see today, reports of attacks...

Last week, Microsoft released Security Advisory 2607712 , notifying customers that fraudulent digital certificates had been issued by certificate authority DigiNotar.   Earlier this week, the Microsoft Security Research & Defense Blog (srd blog) posted further guidance explaining more about...