Microsoft Switzerland Security Blog
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Conficker's First Birthday Looms - Seven Million IPs Still Infected
As Conficker approaches the first anniversary of its appearance in the wild, the Shadowserver...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 11/06/2009
Microsoft Security Intelligence Report volume 7 (January - June 2009) released
The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) provides an in-depth perspective on the changing...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 11/03/2009
Phishing, Worms Spike This Year, Say Microsoft and McAfee
Scammers are targeting social networks with phishing scams and relying more heavily on worms and...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 11/03/2009
Windows 7 Security Story May Appeal to Enterprises
The Windows 7 security story has three main chapters that have received a fair amount of attention:...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 11/02/2009
Free Microsoft Security Tool Locks Down Buggy Apps (EMET)
EMET, short for Enhanced Mitigation Evaluation Toolkit, allows developers and administrators to add...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 11/02/2009
Cybersecurity Today: The Wild, Wild West
If you purchased a brand new computer today with all the latest security software and plug it into...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 09/28/2009
Inside the Password-Stealing Business: The Who and How of Identity Theft
With shopping and banking transactions occurring primarily online today, password stealing has...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 09/28/2009
Where in the World do Viruses come from?
The U.S. continues to dominate as the main source of the world's viruses, producing 15.9 percent of...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 09/17/2009
Hacking Your Life (oh oh...)
A Virginia woman discovered that her married boyfriend had other girlfriends, and she decided to...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 09/17/2009
Microsoft SDL team releases new security tools
The Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) team at Microsoft released two security testing tools....
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 09/17/2009
SANS Outlines the Top Cyber Security Risks
SANS released the "Top Cyber Security Risks" report which covers March-August 2009. The report...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 09/17/2009
Top 100 Virus-Infected Web Sites Exposed
Simply visiting one of the "Top 100 Dirtiest" Web sites - without downloading or even clicking...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 09/05/2009
New Attack Cracks Common Wi-Fi Encryption in a Minute
Computer scientists in Japan say they've developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 09/05/2009
Windows Exploit Programming Primer
From SecurityTube: "We kick started the exploit code research series on SecurityTube by creating the...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 09/05/2009
Introduction to Malware Analysis — Free Webcast
From Lenny Zeltser: "My popular malware analysis course has helped IT administrators, security...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 09/05/2009
The Phishing Guide: Understanding and Preventing Phishing Attacks
This paper [PDF] covers the technologies and security flaws phishers exploit to conduct their...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 09/05/2009
Security Risk as People Use Same Password on All Websites
The research reveals that nearly half (46 percent) of Britons use the same password to login to...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 09/05/2009
Researchers Find a New Way to Attack the Cloud
Amazon and Microsoft have been pushing cloud-computing services as a low-cost way to outsource raw...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 09/05/2009
Security Guru Calls Chrome OS's Security Claims "Idiotic"
Noted security guru Bruce Schneier, chief technologist at BT, has scoffed at Google's claims about...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/13/2009
Majority of vulnerabilities now being exploited
The number of exploits being written to target specific software vulnerabilities could be at...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/13/2009
Protecting your computer while travelling
Protecting computer equipment is something that everyone should be concerned with today. It seems...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 05/18/2009
Windows 7 and Security
As Windows 7 is not too far away and as many are allready using or testing Windows 7, here a list of...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/18/2009
C64 as a webserver?! ;-)
An entire Web site has been 100% developed on the Commodore 64. The little keyboard box you see...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/02/2009
Passwords - once again...
Popular Passwords Include ‘1234' and ‘password’ When 28,000 log-in details stolen from a well-known...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/02/2009
Top 9 Dirty Tricks Scammers Use
What the average guy might call a con is known in the security world as social engineering. Social...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/25/2009
Conficker Advisories
Microsoft Conficker guidance page for IT Professionals and those focused on security in the...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/09/2009
Slow And Silent Targeted Attacks On The Rise
And another one in the same direction: The most determined cyber criminals don't necessarily work...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 01/12/2009
The Latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (v5)
The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) provides an in-depth perspective on the changing...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 01/12/2009
Trojans Dominated Malware Threats in Dec. '08
Sunbelt Software has released its monthly data dump that charts the most commonly observed malware...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 01/12/2009
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-078 – Critical avaiable now!
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-078 – Critical is now avaiable, patches are there and ready for...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 12/17/2008
Internet Explorer security levels compared
As a couple of people are looking at their IE currently, I found some interesting information on...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 12/16/2008
Security Advisory 961051 - More information
Microsoft revised the Workarounds section of Security Advisory 961051. The Security Vulnerability...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 12/16/2008
Microsoft support lifecycle for service Packs
Perhaps a good idea to do some end-of-year cleanup! You can find what product services packs are...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 12/16/2008
New Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Programs
As part of its commitment to make the SDL more accessible to every developer, Microsoft is...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 11/24/2008
Out of band security update MS08-067
Microsoft released the announced out of band security update MS08-067. Please read the bulletin...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 10/27/2008
Microcosm of a massive security problem
Blog Post by Jon Oltsik: A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation to a number of companies about the...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 10/23/2008
IT security guide: Understanding cyber-risks means knowing what questions to ask
A good place for senior executives to start in trying to understand their companies' financial...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 10/23/2008
Chinese surfers see red over Microsoft black-outs
Chinese Internet users have expressed fury at Microsoft's launch of an anti-piracy tool targeting...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 10/23/2008
Do You Need A Secure Flash Drive?
PCMAG.COM: "I've long been a big fan of USB flash drives for carrying around the data that I need on...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 10/20/2008
Why Technology Isn't The Answer To Better Security
"Too many organizations still lack coherent, enforced and forward-thinking security processes, our...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 10/20/2008
Internet Explorer 8 (beta2) released
Last week Microsoft released IE8 Beta2, the faster, easier and safer successor of the existing...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 09/03/2008
The Open Computer Forensics Architecture (OCFA)
The Open Computer Forensics Architecture (OCFA) is a modular computer forensics framework built by...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/29/2008
Tech giants team for online ID cards
A group of software and online payment companies are teaming up to find a better way than passwords...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/29/2008
Microsoft Forefront Integration Kit for Network Access Protection
The Microsoft Forefront Integration Kit for Network Access Protection provides a way for two...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/29/2008
Microsoft ISA Server Service Pack 1 (SP1) released
List of problems that are fixed in Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 Service Pack...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/07/2008
Microsoft Malware Removal Tool: Two million password stealers fingered
Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool - a program that removes malware from Windows machines -...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 06/25/2008