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February 2006 - Posts

Network Access Protection Life

Want to see Network Access Protection and how it works? Well, you have two options: Either attend my Webcast tomorrow at 16:00 ( http://www.microsoft.com/switzerland/technet/de/events.mspx ) - we will make it available afterwards as well. Or join our Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 9:02 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Wanna Have Fun? Breaking Into Las Vegas

There is a cool show on MSDN called: The Code Room: Breaking Into Vegas. From the abstract: In this episode of The Code Room watch the White Hats and Black Hats battle for the security of Las Vegas. Jessi Knapp and Microsoft Security Guru Joe Stagner Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 8:59 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

DOE Manual on Information Security

The Department of Energy recently approved a comprehensive manual on procedures for protecting all manner of classified or controlled information in the Department's possession. The manual has not been readily available online, but a copy was obtained Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 26, 2006 5:38 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Defender Problems Fixed

I promised you to keep you posted on the issues we had with Windows Defender Beta 2. I just got the message that the problems should be fixed now and that the fixed version is available on the same download link as orinignally ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=435bfce7-da2b-4a6a-afa4-f7f14e605a0d&DisplayLang=en Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 22, 2006 6:22 AM by chsecblo | 2 Comments

Problems with Windows Defender Beta 2 on non-English OS

Since yesterday I am aware of problems with Windows Defender Beta 2 on non-English Operating Systems :-(. That is all I know at the moment. We are working on it and I will keep you posted as soon as I know more Roger Read More...
Posted Friday, February 17, 2006 8:11 AM by chsecblo | 2 Comments

Attack Trends for 2006

Departmenet of Homeland Security together with the National Cyber Security Alliance release their view of the 2006 Emerging Threat List. This is pretty interesting as they see the following threats growing in 2006: Hackers use Instant Messaging to spread Read More...
Posted Friday, February 17, 2006 8:01 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Phishing Activity Trends Report for December, 2005

There is a new Phishing Activity Trends Report for December, 2005. It states that “December 2005 showed a disturbing trend of far more brands being spoofed than in any month on record. Over 120 brands were used in phishing attacks this month. A large Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 16, 2006 12:57 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Bill Gates and Microsoft's efforts to improve security in Windows Vista operating system

Bill Gates outlines Microsoft's efforts to improve security in Windows Vista operating system. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates delivers a keynote address at the RSA Conference in San Jose, Calif., Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006. Looking to simplify online transactions Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 16, 2006 12:51 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Windows Defender Beta 2 is on the Web

I do not know, how often I had to answer the question about out Anti-Spyware solution. Now, after a long, long time beta 2 is available. Go and download it at http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx Roger Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:48 PM by chsecblo | 3 Comments

Join Bill's RSA Keynote

As you probably know, Bill Gates delviers a keynote at this year's RSA Conference. He usually sets the stage for at least the next year. If you are interested, the keynote is available as a Webcast with about 50 minutes delay at: http://www.microsoft.com/events/executives/billgates.mspx Read More...
Posted Monday, February 13, 2006 10:52 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Quite some Work to Do

This will be a heavy month. As you may have seen, we released the advanced notification with the announcement of seven bulletins this month: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/advance.mspx Always, we are offering you a chat the Friday Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 09, 2006 10:25 PM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

Update and Question on MyWife

At the moment it seems extremely quiet regarding MyWife (Kamasutra, Blackmal). Nevertheless, we are receiving some mixed signals and there are rumours about companies having to take down their network - but there are no confirmed facts. Do you know about Read More...
Posted Friday, February 03, 2006 10:12 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

How much Spyware is on the Web?

You probably heard about the Strider Honeymonkey project trying to scan the web for sites hosting malware. This project is run by Microsoft Research. Now, the University of Washington published more recent results. Strider Honeymonkey: http://research.microsoft.com/HoneyMonkey/ Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 02, 2006 8:41 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Exploits are sold

It is kind of scary but pretty often we see claims that exploits to 0day-vulnerabilities are sold on the Internet. There was one recently for Excel on eBay and now there are claims that there was a WMF-exploit on the market pretty early in December ( Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 02, 2006 7:55 AM by chsecblo | 38 Comments
 
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