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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 at it in the context of its predecessor, Windows...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 01-24-2008
Erol Hofman's notes from my presentation at the 3rd Annual World-Wide Security Conference

Erol Hofman organised East-West Institute 's Second and Third annual Worldwide Security Conferences. The Third Annual World-Wide Security Conference was held in Brussels, 21-23 February 2006. I presented on the technology track and Erol has posted his notes from my presentation . There's also a post...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 06-13-2007
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 converting Office 2003 binary documents to...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 05-22-2007
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, Passport did not proliferate because some protocol...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 03-31-2007
Bill Gates and Craig Mundie at RSA Conference 2007

[Video] 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 Support of Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates in Internet...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 02-07-2007
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 and how Interoperability is now part of TwC...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 01-25-2007
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 criminal activity. The convention has now been...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 10-03-2006
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% more for RedHat overall, for high severity Windows...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 07-13-2006
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 and Top Secret. I am sure and have confidence...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 06-23-2006
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 in the media about the security and privacy aspects...

Posted to Notes2Self.net (Weblog) by Stephen McGibbon on 04-11-2005

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