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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-078 – Critical avaiable now!

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-078 – Critical is now avaiable, patches are there and ready for download: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS08-078.mspx . Please install, update as soon as possible! Urs Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 17, 2008 7:49 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Internet Explorer security levels compared

As a couple of people are looking at their IE currently, I found some interesting information on Steve Riley’s Technet blog: "A pretty good question came across the newsgroups the other day. Someone was asking what are the differences between IE's "medium" Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 16, 2008 4:05 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Security Advisory 961051 - More information

Microsoft revised the Workarounds section of Security Advisory 961051. The Security Vulnerability Research & Defense team wanted to share more detail about the vulnerability and explains the additional workarounds here to help you protect your computers: Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:58 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

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

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

Security for the youngest internet users - Security4Kids

Have you ever heard about www.security4kids.ch ? If not, visiting the site should be one of your tasks for today! Especially if you’ve got children aged 7-15 yourself. But let’s go back to the beginning. The website www.security4kids.ch (in German and Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:47 PM by chsecblo | 1 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
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