Welcome to TechNet Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Browse by Tags

All Tags » Enterprise » Consumer   (RSS)

Internet Explorer 8 (beta2) released

Last week Microsoft released IE8 Beta2, the faster, easier and safer successor of the existing Internet Explorer. As there are a lot of changes (new default settings, new support for standards, new features), it's definitely woth to try and test IE8. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 03, 2008 9:17 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Tech giants team for online ID cards

A group of software and online payment companies are teaming up to find a better way than passwords to protect, and prove, your identity online. Problems with passwords are well known - people require ever more passwords which means they either get forgotten, Read More...
Posted Friday, August 29, 2008 8:43 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Microsoft Malware Removal Tool: Two million password stealers fingered

Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool - a program that removes malware from Windows machines - detected password-stealing software from more than 2 million PCs in the first week after it was updated. One password stealer, called Taterf, alone was Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:40 AM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

Microsoft Malware Removal Starter Kit (2008-06)

Many small- and medium-sized organizations use antivirus software, and yet new viruses, worms, and other forms of malicious software (malware) continue to infect large numbers of computers in these Organizations. Malware proliferates at alarming speed Read More...
Posted Monday, June 23, 2008 9:26 AM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

Covert channel vulnerabilities in anonymity systems

Excerpt: The spread of wide-scale Internet surveillance has spurred interest in anonymity systems that protect users’ privacy by restricting unauthorized access to their identity. This requirement can be considered as a flow control policy in the well Read More...
Posted Friday, June 13, 2008 11:42 PM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

OECD: Malicious Software (Malware): A Security Threat to the Internet Economy

Excerpt: This report, developed in collaboration with experts, aims to inform policy makers about malware impacts, growth and evolution, and countermeasures to combat malware. It seeks to analyze some of the main issues associated with malware and to Read More...
Posted Friday, June 13, 2008 11:40 PM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

Hackers Find a New Place to Hide Rootkits

Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer's microprocessor, hidden from current antivirus products. Called a System Management Mode (SMM) rootkit, the software runs Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 28, 2008 10:13 AM by chsecblo | 2 Comments

Managing the Windows Vista Firewall

If you're an IT pro who is looking a bit more seriously at Windows Vista for your enterprise environment, you should take a close look at the firewall. Once you realize what the Windows Vista firewall can do, you may want to renegotiate the agreement Read More...
Posted Monday, May 26, 2008 1:58 PM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

New Elevation PowerToys for Windows Vista

Run as Administrator for third-party scripting tools Run as Another User Prompt Here as System for CMD and Windows PowerShell Drag-and-drop Elevation Gadget http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc510320.aspx Urs Read More...
Posted Monday, May 26, 2008 1:47 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Advances in BitLocker Drive Encryption

What's new in Windows Vista SP1 or Windows Server 2008 Bitlocker? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc510321.aspx Urs Read More...
Posted Monday, May 26, 2008 1:41 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Securing the Internet's DNS

The Internet is slowly inching closer to ratcheting up the security of its Domain Name System (DNS) server architecture: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN ) plans to go operational with the secure DNS technology, DNSSEC, later Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:18 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Web 2.0, meet Internet attack 2.0

The glitzy, interactive abilities of Web 2.0 have led to a profusion of new applications, but the technology also is bringing a new era of security vulnerabilities, a security researcher warned Wednesday. "Security was a challenge to begin with, but if Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:47 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

To defeat a malicious botnet, build a friendly one

Beating the "botnets"–armies of infected computers used to attack websites–requires borrowing tactics from the bad guys, say computer security researchers. A team at the University of Washington, US, wants to marshal swarms of good computers to neutralize Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:45 AM by chsecblo | 3 Comments

Modern 'primitive' could ease the pain of encrypting massive amounts of data

Researchers have devised an encryption scheme that could simplify the protection of sensitive information by allowing banks, hospitals, and other organizations to lock files using keys that are based on specific attributes, such as an employee's position Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:44 AM by chsecblo | 8 Comments

Microsoft: We took out Storm botnet

Microsoft Corp. today took credit for crushing the Storm botnet, saying that the malware search-and-destroy tool it distributes to Windows users disinfected so many bots that the hackers threw in the towel. "They realized they were in our gun sights," Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:28 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments
More Posts Next page »
 
Page view tracker