Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes all previously released updates for the operating system. This update also includes a small number of new functionalities, which do not significantly change customers’ experience with the operating system. This...

The Windows Server 2008 Security Guide provides customers with best practices, predefined security templates, and an automated deployment tool to help strengthen the security of servers running Windows Server 2008. The security recommendations in the...

Michael Howard on SDL and the need for it; comments onJeff Jones blogs. See SDL blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sdl/archive/2008/02/21/the-first-step-on-the-road-to-more-secure-software-is-admitting-you-have-a-problem.aspx Urs

Last Friday the last of the Windows Server 2008 Security Resource Kit finally went to press! This was a project I had not really planned and so, to complete it in time, I brought in an amazing crew of co-authors. Together, we managed to put together 17...

Spammers have found a new trick that gets around many current anti-spam filters: abusing the "out of the office" auto-respond feature found in legitimate webmail services. http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=11544 Urs