Cybersecurity continues to be a hot topic around the world, particularly as governments develop policies to improve cybersecurity in critical infrastructure. In the U.S., the White House released an Executive Order entitled Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity to drive a concerted effort across...

The exploitation of vulnerabilities specific to country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) registries has become an increasingly common problem, especially in relatively small markets around the world. A ccTLD is an internet domain registry generally used or reserved for a country, a sovereign state, or a...

Posted by: Matt Thomlinson , General Manager, Trustworthy Computing. In my blog post earlier this week, I shared that I’m traveling in Europe for a series of cybersecurity policy events. This is my second and final post about this trip. After my first stop in Brussels, Belgium for the Global...

I attended the second annual ( ISC )² Security Congress, collocated with the ASIS International 58th Annual Seminar and Exhibits last week (September 10-13, 2012) held in Philadelphia and wanted to pass on some of what I saw there. Microsoft Trustworthy Computing was a sponsor of (ISC)² Security...

In the first three parts of this series on the threat landscape in Asia and Oceania I examined threats in Vietnam and India (highest malware infection rates in the region), Japan and Korea (very interesting juxtaposition), and Malaysia and Singapore (malware infection rates trending lower). This final...

In part 1 and part 2 of this series on the threat landscape in Asia and Oceania I focused on Vietnam, India, Korea and Japan. In this third part of the series, I’m focusing on Malaysia and Singapore. I have visited both of these countries in the past to discuss threats in these locations with...

In part 1 of this series on the threat landscape in Asia and Oceania I focused on Vietnam and India – the two locations with the highest malware infection rates in the region. In this part of the series, I’m focusing on Korea and Japan. Historically Korea has had one of the most active threat...

Recently I wrote about the threat landscape in the European Union ( part 1 , 2 , 3 ) and Africa . This series of articles is focused on threats in select locations in Asia (Vietnam, India, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, and Japan) and Oceania (Australia and New Zealand). I am focusing on these locations...

Today at RSA China , Jing de Jong-Chen (senior director, Trustworthy Computing) delivered a keynote outlining the next steps in Microsoft’s evolved security, privacy and reliability strategies for cloud and big data. Scott Charney’s Trustworthy Computing Next whitepaper highlights several...

Last week, Jan Neutze and I participated in a dinner discussion on “Building a Secure Cyber Future” that the German Mission to the United Nations and the Atlantic Council organized for the members of the United Nations Group of Government Experts (GGE) on Developments in the field of Information...

It’s been almost a year since I wrote about the threat landscape in Africa based on data published in the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report volume 10 ( SIRv10 ). Using the latest data published in the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report volume 12 (SIRv12), we took a fresh look at how the...

Tools are designed to make IT Professionals’ and Developers’ lives easier. A good tool can save a lot of work and time for those people responsible for developing and managing software. I thought I’d write a series of articles dedicated to highlighting some of the most useful free security...

Today we released the fourth annual Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) Progress Report . This report highlights advancements in various Microsoft information sharing initiatives that foster deeper industry collaboration, increase community-based defenses, and better protect customers. This...

Recently I wrote a three part series of articles ( part 1 , part 2 , part 3 ) on the evolving threat landscape in the European Union. As I wrote in these articles, there has been a steep rise in the malware infection rates in some European countries that typically have some of the lowest malware infection...

In part 1 of this series on the threat landscape in the European Union in the second half of 2011, I examined the threats in the location with the highest malware infection rate, Romania. In this segment of the series I will examine what is happening in the EU member states that have seen the biggest...

[NOTE: The time was originally listed as 10:30am, but it starts at 11:00am] Tim Rains and I will be presenting in a live webcast this morning ( 5/23 @11:00am PST ) on the topic “ Code Red to Zbot: 10 Years of Tech, Researchers and Threat Evolution .” The session was presented at the RSA USA 2012 Conference...

Since releasing the new Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Volume 12 (SIRv12) a few weeks ago, one of the top questions I have been asked is about the new malware infection rate data for Windows operating systems. Figure 1: Infection rate (CCM) by operating system and service pack in the fourth...

Scareware, also known as fake anti-virus software, has become one of the most common methods computer hackers use to swindle your money. If you have had a security alert icon pop up on your computer, you may have been the victim of scareware. In a recent TV interview , I discuss how scareware programs...

Today we released the latest volume of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) containing a large body of new data and analysis on the threat landscape. This volume of the SIR includes: Latest industry vulnerability disclosure trends and analysis Latest data and analysis of global vulnerability...

This post continue my analysis of industry vulnerability disclosures started in part 4 last week and is part of an ongoing series of posts based upon Tim Rains and my recent special edition Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) called “ The evolution of malware and the threat landscape – a ten...

In the first three parts of this series ( part 1 , part 2 , part 3 ), Tim Rains explored some of the ways that the threat landscape (with a focus on malware) has evolved over the past decade and introduced a new special edition Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) called “ The evolution of malware...

Trending Security News This week security news stories focused on the LulzSec arrests and growing dissent among hackers with CNET reporting LulzSec arrests deal blow to hacker group and the New York Times reporting Arrests Sow Mistrust Inside a Clan of Hackers . The Times op-ed ran a story Tap into the...

In the first two parts of this series ( part 1 , part 2 ) I explored some of the ways that the threat landscape has evolved over the past decade and introduced a new special edition Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) called “ The evolution of malware and the threat landscape – a...

Trending Security News This week at the RSA U.S. 2012 Conference in San Francisco, IT security executives, government leaders and security researchers and hackers gathered together for keynotes and sessions covering a range of topics impacting the industry today. Security experts shared the latest trends...

In part 1 of this series I started comparing what the threat landscape looked like at the turn of the century to what it looks like today. Continuing that theme, today we have released a new special edition Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) called “ The evolution of malware and the threat...