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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

Microsoft calls for talks on Internet trust, safety

Microsoft today called for broad discussions about the safety of the Internet in an initiative it dubbed "End to End Trust" in a white paper released during the RSA Conference that opened today in San Francisco. In a keynote address at the security conference, Read More...
Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 12:16 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Sun and Apple Updates – A Sheer Nuisance!!

From Roger's blog post: http://blogs.technet.com/rhalbheer/archive/2008/03/19/sun-and-apple-update-a-sheer-nuisance.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/rhalbheer/archive/2008/03/25/sun-and-apple-updates-a-sheer-nuisance-part-2.aspx Well, a little bit in the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:43 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Anatomy of a SQL Injection Incident

Blog Posting from Neil Carpenter: "A number of people are reporting that 10K+ Web sites have been hacked via a SQL injection attack that injected a link to a malicious .js file into text fields in their database. Since the CSS Security team here at Microsoft Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:06 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit

We just made Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 available. This could be important if you are developing web applications or just if you are curious! :-) http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/Install.htm See also: http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=388331 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:19 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

New Method IDs Phishing, Malicious Domains

At a closed-door security summit hosted on Yahoo’s Sunnyvale campus last week, a researcher demonstrated a new technique to more easily identify phishing and other malicious Websites. Dan Hubbard, vice president of security research for Websense, showed Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:05 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

APWG Releases Phishing Activity Trends

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has just released their Phishing Activity Trends Report for the month of December. Overall, the report showed a decrease in activity from the previous month; however, there were a few notable exceptions. It appears Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:50 AM by chsecblo | 3 Comments

Study: Consumers Don't Use Anti-Phishing Defenses

"Across the globe, Windows Internet Explorer 7 has more than 100 million users seeing green," VeriSign said in a press release about Extended Validation SSL technology earlier this month. About 5,000 sites are using the new technology, which gives users Read More...
Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 10:11 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Minimizing User Rights Can Increase Security

Taking a least-privilege approach to user accounts is a key part of any in-depth defense strategy, many analysts and security pros say. "I think it's very important … not even just as [a component] of security, but in the broader sense [of] risk posed Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 8:42 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

New Microsoft Security Vulnerability Research and Defense blog

The Security Vulnerability Research & Defense blog’s intent is to provide more information about Microsoft vulnerabilities, mitigations and workarounds, and active attacks. http://blogs.technet.com/swi/ Urs Read More...
Posted Friday, December 28, 2007 11:21 PM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

A very long list of new Microsoft products for 2008...

Bink.nu has an extensive list of new software that Microsoft will be unleashing in the marketplace. See yourself: http://blogs.technet.com/tarpara/archive/2007/12/25/microsoft-s-new-year-is-gonna-bring-a-lot-of-change.aspx Urs Read More...
Posted Friday, December 28, 2007 11:13 AM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

Malvertising

Malvertising (malicious advertising) is a reasonably fresh take on an online criminal methodology that appears focused on the installation of unwanted or outright malicious software through the use of internet advertising media networks, exchanges and Read More...
Posted Monday, December 10, 2007 10:47 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Internet Explorer and Firefox Vulnerability Analysis Report

Jeff Jones on his blog about the Internet Explorer and Firefox Vulnerability Analysis Report: For most people, their web browser is central to their interaction with the Internet, connecting to global web sites and helping them consume online services Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 01, 2007 8:50 AM by chsecblo | 2 Comments

The first year of IE7

It’s been a little over a year since Microsoft released IE7 on Windows XP and for Windows Vista. According to internal Microsoft research based on data from Visual Sciences Corporation, there are over 300 million users are experiencing the web with IE7. Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 01, 2007 8:46 AM by chsecblo | 1 Comments
 
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