• Two Arrests regarding Zotob

    Posted over 9 years ago
    by Microsoft Swiss Security Team}
    I just saw the first news regarding arrests for Zotob: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050826/D8C7K9NO3.html It seems that the work we are doing together with the different policies starts to pay off Roger

  • F-Secure issues Virus Warning

    Posted over 9 years ago
    by Microsoft Swiss Security Team}
    Well, I have seen several virus alerts on Level 2 from F-Secure without actually atking off. But this time there is a huge difference: When Slammer broke out, I have been on vacation. When Blaster took off - I have been on vacation. Since an hour, I am...

  • e-Learning: Security in the Infomration Age

    Posted over 8 years ago
    by Microsoft Swiss Security Team}
    The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) just released a pretty interesting e-Learning Course regarding "Security in the Information Age". I personally think that ir somewhere opens up the IT-Security-Guy's mind: http://www.isn.ethz.ch/crn...

  • Ninety-five percent of e-mails sent in 2007 are junk

    Posted over 7 years ago
    by Microsoft Swiss Security Team}
    Barracuda Networks released its annual spam report, which shows between 90 to 95 percent of all e-mail sent in 2007 is spam. This is based on an analysis of more than 1 billion daily e-mail messages sent to its more than 50,000 customers worldwide. ...

  • SANS on Infocon Yellow

    Posted over 9 years ago
    by Microsoft Swiss Security Team}
    It seems that SANS is expecting that the exploits for our August patches or for the vulnerability in the Veritas Backup software will be integrated in a worm pretty soon. To quote them: "there are enough exploits for these vulnerabilities known to be...