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A recent survey of the IT departments in 461 U.S. organizations conducted by the Ponemon Institute reported that the average annual cost of managing insider threats to data security is $3.4 million per organization. Further, more than 78 percent of respondents...

See the TechEd/IT Forum security sessions online (Referenz: Michael Howard): http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_howard/archive/2006/12/21/online-security-sessions-from-teched-it-forum-available.aspx Urs

"Botnets are really where it's at for serious cybercriminals, because of their concentrated power," said Kornblum, a senior attorney with Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Safety Enforcement team. "That power can be used for all sorts of malicious conduct on...

The Microsoft® Windows Vista™ operating system and the Windows® XP operating system with Service Pack 2 (SP2) include a variety of technologies that communicate with the Internet to provide increased ease of use and functionality. Browser and e-mail technologies...