We got an increase on helpdesk calls in different subsidiaries with regards to a mail that is circulating: The mail claims to be coming from admin@microsoft.com and provides a link to an IE7 (Beta) download site. As always: This is spam and a fake. ...

I read this article today Surprise, Microsoft Listed as Most Secure OS . Hmm, actually I like the article (obviously) even though there are a few things I do not understand: To me, Microsoft is a company, Windows the OS - but this is not too important...

Your last line of defense is: Well, the user. In order to help you to address this, we published a Security Awareness Kit, pretty cool stuff. You can get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/understanding/awareness.mspx Roger

It is really interesting to see: At the moment there seems to be a big race to find the first real Windows Vista vulnerability and to go public with it. I know that there are some reports out there claiming that the found THE single biggest issue in Vista...

You remeber for sure the Root DNS Attacks earlier this year, where a DDoS attacked different root servers. There is a pretty good analysis paper by ICANN published now: http://www.icann.org/announcements/factsheet-dns-attack-08mar07.pdf Gives some...