Microsoft Switzerland Security Blog
Security informations brought to you by the Swiss Security Team.
At the Black Hat Security Conference currently taking place in Amsterdam, researchers from the...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 04/03/2008
The start-up's rootkit detection technology will be added into Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare and...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/29/2008
Spyware authors are offering financial rewards to botnet operators and other cyber-criminals who...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/29/2008
In addition to my previous blog post:...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/29/2008
Apple's teasing commercials that imply its software is safer than Microsoft's may not quite match...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/29/2008
From Roger's blog...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/26/2008
Bruce Schneier: "Uncle Milton Industries has been selling ant farms to children since 1956. Some...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/26/2008
Security researchers are cooking up tactics for beating phishing fraudsters at their own game....
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/26/2008
The commercial use of biometrics will become widespread in five years, but is not without security...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/26/2008
Blog Posting from Neil Carpenter: "A number of people are reporting that 10K+ Web sites have been...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/26/2008
If you travel across national borders, it's time to customs-proof your laptop. Customs officials...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/26/2008
New Book: The New School of Information Security by Adam Shostack and Andrew Stewart About the...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/13/2008
Apparently, software updates are getting so big these days that simply downloading them from a...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/13/2008
In this post from the ACE Team, they show how to generate Security Code Review Checklist using...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/12/2008
We just made Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 available. This could be important if you are developing web...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/12/2008
Microsoft Corp. hopes to beef up online privacy with the acquisition of the U-Prove technology, the...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/12/2008
Cisco has taken a leaf out of Microsoft's book by adopting a regular patch release cycle. However,...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/12/2008
Researchers from a German university have developed a model to predict programming errors in...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/12/2008
At a closed-door security summit hosted on Yahoo’s Sunnyvale campus last week, a researcher...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/12/2008
While some investigations rely on highly trained professionals using expensive tools and complex...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/12/2008
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has just released their Phishing Activity Trends Report for...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/12/2008
The rise of PCs, graphical user interfaces, the Internet, and Web 2.0 technologies have obviously...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/10/2008
A majority of government IT organizations say identity management is very important to securing...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/07/2008
"Across the globe, Windows Internet Explorer 7 has more than 100 million users seeing green,"...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/07/2008
Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes all previously released updates for the operating system....
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/28/2008
The Windows Server 2008 Security Guide provides customers with best practices, predefined security...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/28/2008
Michael Howard on SDL and the need for it; comments onJeff Jones blogs. See SDL blog:...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/27/2008
Last Friday the last of the Windows Server 2008 Security Resource Kit finally went to press! This...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/27/2008
Spammers have found a new trick that gets around many current anti-spam filters: abusing the "out of...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/27/2008
Microsoft's decision last week to let everyone snoop through its software secrets means...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/27/2008
Companies and political organizations should put more effort into registering mis-typed versions of...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/27/2008
Two security researchers at ShmooCon demonstrated on Saturday how a laptop connected to a VoIP...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/27/2008
Swissdialogue / MS Switzerland Citizenship blog entry: Kriminelle Energie ist überall – auch im Internet
For the german speaking readers, also a link to my citizenship blog entry: "Kriminelle Energie ist...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/21/2008
A management framework for organizing national cybersecurity efforts:...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/21/2008
SAFECode, the Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code, introduced its first white paper,...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/21/2008
Security workers warn that encrypting stored data doesn't truly protect it, and you're fooling...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/21/2008
Have you ever heard about www.security4kids.ch? If not, visiting the site should be one of your...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/21/2008
Microsoft Corporation commissioned West Coast Labs (WCL) to carry out a series of performance...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/14/2008
German cops are pushing ahead with controversial plans, yet to be legally approved, to develop...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/14/2008
U.S. spies are looking increasingly online for intelligence and they've become major consumers of...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/14/2008
European spam networks have pumped out more unsolicited e-mail than those in the U.S. for the third...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/07/2008
Taking a least-privilege approach to user accounts is a key part of any in-depth defense strategy,...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/07/2008
ENISA is presenting the first feasibility study on a European Information Sharing and Alert System...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/07/2008
Teenagers, including children as young as eleven and twelve years old, are increasingly becoming...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/07/2008
If it seems that -- despite your company's best efforts to educate users about security -- users are...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/07/2008
Analysis: Wireless phone headsets of the kind beloved by Wall Street executives and high-end law...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/07/2008
The Forensics Plan Guide defines the basic elements of a Forensic Plan from the first initial...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/04/2008
Microsoft has announced plans to add new anti-exploitation APIs into Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/04/2008
Excerpt of a blog by Jeff Jones: Windows Vista shipped to business customers on the last day of...
Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 01/29/2008