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AV-Test.org Certifies Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0
Use Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0?  AV-Test.org has certified the product with a score of 14 out of 18 in their latest round of certification...
Adobe pulls a fast one…
What a way to have immediate deployment of a new product…don’t patch your old products to fix a vulnerability, release a new one… Security Bulletin for...
iPhone insecurity
As I’m reading the news this morning watching the folks gather in line for the iPhone 3G (keep in mind the update is not due until 7/11…would you park...
Apple patches 40 different security holes?
Good grief... Apple on Wednesday released an update to fix at least 40 different security holes in computers powered by its Mac OS X operating system and...
Free Proofpoint Report on Outbound Email Security and Data Loss Prevention
How concerned are companies about the content of email leaving their organizations? And how do companies manage the legal and financial risks associated...
Bitlocker FAQs
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...
Posted: May 31 2008, 07:28 PM by jgormly | with no comments
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A Microsoft Security Advisory on Safari?
Interesting... Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a blended threat that allows remote code execution on all supported versions of Windows...
Posted: May 31 2008, 11:57 AM by jgormly | with no comments
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Sandisk warns of USB flash drives
SanDisk has warned that IT managers are unaware of the extent to which unsecured flash drives are being brought into their organizations, backing this...
Posted: Apr 13 2008, 07:29 PM by jgormly | with no comments
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Vista hacked after third day through Adobe flash
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...
Is Lehman a fraud victim?
According to a Wall Street Journal story, U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers Inc. appears to have been a victim of a fraud in which swindlers used forged...
Posted: Mar 30 2008, 07:39 AM by jgormly | with no comments
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Apple's OS hacked in just 2 minutes
Softpedia is reporting that Apple's OS was hacked...pretty quick...due to a challenge. At 12:38pm local time, the team of Charlie Miller, Jake Honoroff...
Microsoft vs. Apple: Who patches zero-days faster?
ComputerWorld asked the question...what was the answer? Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology looked at how many times over the past...
Posted: Mar 27 2008, 09:14 PM by jgormly | with no comments
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TJX Agrees to Audit of Data-Safeguard System
TJX Cos., which last year disclosed a major data-security breach, agreed to have its systems that safeguard customers' credit-card data audited every...
Posted: Mar 27 2008, 09:01 PM by jgormly | with 2 comment(s)
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Security audit events for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft Windows Vista
A list of all security audit events for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista in Microsoft Excel format. Download
Posted: Mar 21 2008, 08:33 AM by jgormly | with no comments
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Safari isn't the only thing Apple updated...
Apple today released APPLE-SA-2008-03-18 Security Update 2008-002, the second security update for the year. Most significant updates include to Apache...
Posted: Mar 18 2008, 07:01 PM by jgormly | with no comments
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