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October 2007 - Posts

How To Survive The Worst PC Disasters

It's not directly security related, but if you have to recover from a disaster: http://tech.msn.com/howto/articlepcw.aspx?cp-documentid=4918287 Urs Read More...
Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 7:57 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

10 tips for maintaining a healthy home network

Once your network is up and running, it's up to you to keep it healthy. This means incorporating all of the security features that come with your operating system, whether it's Windows Vista or Windows XP, and taking care of your network hardware properly. Read More...
Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 7:47 PM by chsecblo | 54 Comments

"Microsoft’s having the shortest average patch development time", says Symantec

Symantec acknowledges that Microsoft’s having the shortest average patch development time: “Of the five operating systems tracked in the first six months of 2007 (figure 18), Microsoft had the shortest average patch development time at 18 days, based Read More...
Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 6:54 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Securing a gateway to your enterprise: Web Services

How to secure a gateway to your enterprise? How to secure webservices? See yourself: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/sectip/st1007.mspx Urs Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 25, 2007 12:50 PM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

Scott Charney on Microsofts commitments to privacy (Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group)

The Daily Dashboard interviews Microsoft's Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing (TwC) Group, about Microsoft's commitment to privacy and robust efforts to build greater trust in the Internet and e-commerce https://www.privacyassociation.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1290&Itemid=116 Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:33 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Conducting Private Business in Today's Public World

On Tuesday October 23, two Microsoft executives, Scott Charney and Ben Fathi, present keynotes at the IAPP Privacy Academy (San Francisco) and the RSA Europe Conference (London) respectively. They highlight recently completed research findings that show Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:25 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Microsoft Security Intelligence Report: Webcasts

Let me just add som more information on webcasts arround the SIRv3 Report: Security Intelligence Report (SIR) Overview Thursday , November 1, 2007 11:30am Microsoft Security Intelligence Report: Overview of Latest Trends in Vulnerabilities and Malicious Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 6:06 PM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

Microsoft Security Intelligence Report

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. Each individual Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 5:01 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Steve Riley: Myth vs. reality: Wireless SSIDs

Good article on SSIDs and why it doesn't make sense (well at least in most cases) to hide the SSID in a Wireless environment. http://blogs.technet.com/steriley/archive/2007/10/16/myth-vs-reality-wireless-ssids.aspx Urs Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:54 PM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

XSSDetect - Code Analysis Tool

One of the biggest, constant problems we've seen our enterprise customers deal with and we here at Microsoft have to also contend with is that of the XSS (Cross Site Scripting) bug. It's very common and unfortunately, still an issue we have to deal with Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 12:50 PM by chsecblo | 2 Comments

ENISA Quarterly

"Social Networking (SN) has emerged as one of the most successful social and technological phenomena of the 21st century. User numbers have increased rapidly since the first social networks emerged in 2004. MySpace and Facebook, for example, are widely Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 04, 2007 2:06 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Virtual rootkits not a problem, claim researchers...

Rootkits that use virtualization techniques should not present detection problems, according to researchers from Carnegie Mellon and Stanford universities in the US. Working with virtualization technology vendors VMware and XenSource, the researchers Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 04, 2007 2:04 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Security researchers look beyond Vista

The improved security in Microsoft's newest software products may leave some security researchers looking elsewhere for work. That was the message that some security professionals took away from BlueHat, an event last week on Microsoft's campus that allows Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 04, 2007 2:00 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments
 
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