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For those with Windows Vista deployed and using Bitlocker, there's a great site for FAQs if you haven't seen it. http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/58358421-a7f5-4c97-ab41-2bcc61a58a701033...
Interesting... Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a blended threat that allows remote code execution on all supported versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista when Apple’s Safari for Windows...
It took three days, but Windows Vista was hacked as well. I blogged earlier that the Mac OS fell the fastest, and now Vista has fallen, through of all things a hole in Adobe flash. Maybe I should take...
ComputerWorld asked the question...what was the answer? Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology looked at how many times over the past six years the two vendors were able to have a patch...
A list of all security audit events for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista in Microsoft Excel format. Download
Microsoft just published a report that compares vulnerabilities and security updates over the last year for Windows Vista, XP, Linux and Mac OS X. In the report, Vista came out on top. Jeff Jones, Director...
Microsoft has posted the TechNet Security Series Seminar from December 13th. The second TechNet Security Series Seminar happened on Thursday 13 December 2007. Here are the presentations that were made...
This volume of the SIR focuses on the first half of the 2007 calendar year (from January through June) and builds upon the data published in the previously released volumes of the SIR. Using data derived...
From the Windows Vista Team: When developing Windows Vista, Microsoft set out to provide higher levels of productivity, mobility, and security, with lower costs. After more than six months of broad availability...
Are you getting ready to deploy Windows Vista? Thinking about deploying? Read the Windows Vista Security Guide Welcome to the Windows Vista Security Guide . This guide provides instructions and recommendations...
Microsoft has updated Baseline Security Analyzer to v.2.0.1. Get it here .
F-Secure said the Trojan horse virus appears to do little harm but is of interest because it is the first to target InfoPath. It is a proof of concept virus, meaning it was created to demonstrate that...
Windows Defender (formerly Windows AntiSpyware) Beta 2 has been released.
From TechNet: On 13 December 2005 Microsoft is planning to release: Security Updates • 2 Microsoft Security Bulletin affecting Microsoft Windows. The highest Maximum Severity rating for these is Critical...
Microsoft plans to unveil a new security advisories service next Tuesday as part of an aggressive long-term effort to revamp the way it reacts to publicly reported software vulnerabilities. The pilot project...
Microsoft Downloads: Starting with an open and vulnerable system, this series of seminars will teach the key areas you need to know to protect you network from attack. This no-nonsense approach includes...
Tucked inside the just-released MSN Messenger are features to stymie the spread of some of the IM worms that have been knocking Microsoft's instant messaging clients, a security firm said Friday. MSN Messenger...
And of all places, it’s posted on LinuxInsider. Go figure. It discusses the most recent vulnerability discovered in Firefox. It echos what most of us have been saying all along. It’s only a...
I’ve blogged earlier that there are some internet news companies trying to make a story out of Microsoft happenings when there isn’t one. Yesterday a story was released that read, in part:...
Learn what you need to know about SP2. Right now. https://www.microsoftelearning.com/xpsp2/ Our free Microsoft™ Official E-Learning Clinics on Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) provide the technical...
In my opinion, NOTHING Microsoft does will ever be enough for some. It appears as we get more users using Microsoft’s new anti-spyware program, and their malicious software removal tool, the more...
Should it be public information? When should something NOT be reported to the general public? EWeek has released a story that reads “Microsoft has released a fix for a critical hole in the HTML Help...
SPYWARE is now the biggest computer security problem users face, almost overnight inspiring new categories of software to deal with the threat. So it's no wonder that the biggest dog in town has settled...
Three unpatched flaws in Internet Explorer now pose a higher danger, a security company warned after code to exploit one of the issues was published to the Internet. Secunia said Friday it has raised its...
Network administrators who have failed to patch their systems against the Microsoft Windows Internet Naming Service vulnerability are now at much greater risk of attack. The SANS Internet Storm Center...
Microsoft is putting the finishing touches on its spyware killer, based on technology from its recent aquistion, Giant Software. The beta version is expected to have its public debut in a few days. The...