Microsoft Switzerland Security Blog
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New IE Security Whitepaper
When I talk to customers regarding Windows XP SP2 and the improvements we made in IE, they relate...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/30/2005
Professionals in Cyberwarefare
There is an excellent (but lengthy) article about the people being behind Cyberwarefare. Think...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/29/2005
Two Arrests regarding Zotob
I just saw the first news regarding arrests for Zotob:...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/26/2005
Al-Kaida hiring hackers
Do we really want to let our phantasy do it's work? Well, let's think a little bit: In the last few...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/25/2005
Unbelievebale but true: US Banks Shifting Logins to Non-SSL Pages
That is something I really cannot believe: Major US Banks are starting to use normal http-pages as...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/24/2005
Customs computer virus strands travelers
Not only CNN has been hit by a virus, US customs as well. I hope that this will not be happening...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/22/2005
Bot-War going on
At the moment quite some customers are fighting all the different worms that attack MS05-039. The...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/19/2005
Network Access Protection (NAP) Platform Overview
Network administrators have the challenge of ensuring that computers that connect to a private...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/18/2005
Microsoft's Windows malicious software removal tool for Zotob variants avaiable
Microsoft on Wednesday made available a free software tool to help victims of the worms that hit...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/18/2005
MS05-039 Updated advisory (incl. Win32/ZOTOB.A Info)
Microsoft has updated the MS05-039 advisory and provides a link to this site for more information...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/15/2005
The Attack to MS05-039 is here
MS05-039 got hit first. SANS seems to have been right but up to now, the worm does not seem to be...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/14/2005
SANS on Infocon Yellow
It seems that SANS is expecting that the exploits for our August patches or for the vulnerability in...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/14/2005
Feedback requested
Hi, I am back :D. After four beautiful weeks of vacation I will start working again on Monday....
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/12/2005
Microsoft to fight crime with spammer's money
Microsoft Settles Suit Against Spam King. Microsoft has settled a lawsuit against former spam kind...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/10/2005
Security Patches - Links, downloads, problems and workaround
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for August,...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/10/2005
Gartner about Microsoft Security
Reading the latest news on Infoweek about the often discussed Cisco vulnerability announced at...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/06/2005
Windows Server 2003 (SP1) - Access-based Enumeration
ABE filters shared folders visible to a user based on that individual user's access rights,...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/05/2005
Resources For Law Enforcement Intelligence
A link to a page which provides you with access to dozens of intelligence related documents, PDF...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/04/2005
Bluetooth Discovery Tool for Windows
RFprotect BlueScanner is a Bluetooth discovery tool for Windows. It will discover and display...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/02/2005
Internet Explorer 7: Now in beta testing for developers
Beta 1 is not intended for broad consumer trial and evaluation but it does offer a preview of some...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/02/2005
Introduction to .Net security
.Net is a software framework from Microsoft that enables language-non-specific software development,...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/02/2005
Microsoft: Global anti-piracy initiative
Microsoft Corp announced the transition of the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) pilot to a version...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/02/2005
Absolutely Cool: MSN Virtual Earth
This has nothing to do with Security but it is very, very, cool: MSN released Virtual Earth. Look at...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/30/2005
There is life outside IT-Security
I am not sure whether you know: There is life outside IT-security. At the moment I am on vacation in...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/27/2005
Microsoft Security Quick Reference Guide
Microsoft Security Quick Reference Guide now live on the...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/27/2005
Microsoft and FrontBridge Technologies
Microsoft announced its intention to acquire FrontBridge Technologies Inc., a privately held,...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/25/2005
University of Colorado servers hacked
As I said recently: We are seeing Univeristies being hacked - pretty often..... This time it is...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/23/2005
Windows Vista Announced
Today at our internal Microsoft Global Briefing we announced the new name for our next version of...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/22/2005
MS05-037 attacked
Now, they are here. The attacks to MS05-037. It is finally exploited on several vecotrs. At the...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/21/2005
The next vuln disclosed irresponsible
I am wondering whether people would start the disclose volns responsible if they would understand to...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/18/2005
Security Monitoring and Attack Detection Planning Guide
NEW SECURITY & EXPLOIT TOOLS from Microsoft: The Security Monitoring and Attack Detection...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/18/2005
New wireless attack discovered
The security threat of wireless networks to the enterprise keeps growing, this time with the...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/18/2005
F-Secure issues Virus Warning
Well, I have seen several virus alerts on Level 2 from F-Secure without actually atking off. But...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/15/2005
Spike on Port 80
One source reports a significant spike on port 80 (https://www.dshield.org/port_report.php?port=80)....
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/14/2005
The Microsoft Security Assessment Tool
Ever wanted to know the risks you are facing with your company and your IT implementation? There is...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/14/2005
Universities getting hacked
Something we see pretty often these days: Universitites that are getting hacked. They have to run...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/12/2005
Phrack is closing down
I know that this is the third time today but it is woth it: The well-known hacking magazine is...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/11/2005
Our Spyware and Claria
Well, this is kind of funny to me: There have been some companies claiming that we flag them as...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/11/2005
Targeted Trojan Email Attacks
US-CERT warned today of targeted Trojan E-Mail attacks. Something that is pretty frightening and...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/11/2005
Security Career Guide
We sponsored the development of a Security Career Guide that is pubnlished by ISC2 (the organisation...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/08/2005
VXers release 'London bombing' Trojan
It is really unbelieveable, what people do: "Virus writers have created a Trojan which poses as...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/08/2005
Author of Sasser Worm sentenced
Today Svan Jaschan was sentenced to 21 motnh's probation. This is, on my personal opinion by far not...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/08/2005
Hackers crack two-factor security
News from the net: It is not THAT bad but anyway: "The latest generation of spyware not only...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/07/2005
July Security Updates
It seems to be a pretty quiet month. We just released the pre-notification for the July updates. We...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/07/2005
IE vulnerability
As you heard, we released a security advisory last Tuesday concerning a COM object that could cause...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/06/2005
Our Blog
Hi, now, we have a blog as well :-) We want to give you some insights, what is happening within the...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/05/2005