• Technical Tips and Insights on MS07-049 and MS07-044

    Jonathan's team from MSRC, researches potential mitigations and workarounds as part of the comprehensive investigations they do for each security bulletin. They regularly discover information that could help customers better understand how to protect...
  • Wndows Security - Code Signing: Is it a Security Feature?

    Code signing is a mechanism whereby publishers of software and content can use a certificate-based digital signature to verify their identities to users of the code, thus allowing users to decide whether or not to install it based on whether they trust...
  • Windows Security - A Microsoft PKI Quick Guide

    A very good structured and complete quick guide to MS PKI. Also includes many references and examples. http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Microsoft-PKI-Quick-Guide-Part1.html http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Microsoft-PKI-Quick-Guide-Part2...
  • Study Finds Spammers' Weak Spot

    Junk email distributors are much more vulnerable at the receiving end than at the sending end, research finds. A given spam campaign may use thousands of mail relay agents to deliver its millions of messages, but it may use only a single server to...
  • What your hard drive can tell ID thieves

    Many people believe that when they dispose of their old computer, the files they've erased from the hard drive are gone forever. Wrong. ConsumerReports.org bought a handful of drives on eBay and tried to recover old files by running simple and inexpensive...