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Windows Vista One Year Vulnerability Report
Jeff Jones , a Strategy Director in the Microsoft Security Technology Unit, unveils the " Windows Vista one year vulnerability report " This paper analyzes the vulnerability disclosures and security updates for the first year of Windows Vista and looks...
Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment (MOICE) is now available for download.
On Monday Microsoft announced the availability of a new tool called designed to make it easier for customers to protect themselves from Office files that may contain malicious software, such as unsolicited Office files received from unknown or known sourcesby...
Lesson learned: From MS Passport to CardSpace
Interesting July 2006 paper by Martin Goldack of the Horst Gortz Institute for IT-Security, Ruhr University Bochum Germany. Some years ago, Microsoft has already proposed a technology called .NET Passport to provide more convenient authentication, however...
Bill Gates and Craig Mundie at RSA Conference 2007
Format: asx Duration: --:-- Bill & Craig announced several new, security-related products and partner initiatives including: The launch of Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) 2007 The release of public beta for Forefront Server Security Management Console...
Trustworthy Computing at Five Years
Jan 15th 2007 marked the 5th anniversary of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative (TwC) (See Bill Gates' announcement , Craig Mundie's Q&A and Whitepaper .) This video gives a status update, touching on the Government Security Program...
US joins European cybercrime convention
news.com reports The U.S. government has embraced European legislation meant to help the global fight against cybercrime. The Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime calls on countries to coordinate international law to investigate and prosecute online...
Jeff Jones' 1H 2006 Windows & RedHat Security Vulnerabilities analysis
Jeff's posted two charts and a couple of tables that compare how the server products did vulnerability-wise for the 1st half of the year. The days of risk comparison is very interesting. The total is 12 Windows Server 2003 (rounding up) and at least 900...
The English scam :-)
Leader in today's Times ... The English scam The Nigerian Government dutifully warns citizens about British fraudsters Dear Sir, First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential...
e-Health & Security
Reading Symantec's April Internet Risr Report (in the FT) I was struck by the following chart :- I was surprised that healthcare is in the top three. It brought to mind once again the developments in e-Health in the UK. There has been considerable debate...
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