Microsoft Switzerland Security Blog

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Windows 7 almost five times more secure than XP

CNET: Windows 7 almost five times more secure than XPThose are the findings of Microsoft's latest...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 05/17/2011

Germany provides a secure way to deal with spam

"In theory, stopping spam is easy: just make it uneconomic to send millions of messages by charging...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/08/2011

Windows 7 Security Primer

Good series of articles about Windows 7...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 01/03/2011

Step by step instructions on how to build a UAG SP1 DirectAccess lab with NAP

Good article and step by step instruction on simplifying DA/NAP deployments with...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 01/03/2011

Hold on to Your Keys!

There have been a few recent incidents of what we previously thought was extremely rare —...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 09/21/2010

A strong Password isn’t the strongest Security

Make your password strong, with a unique jumble of letters, numbers and punctuation marks. But...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 09/08/2010

Microsoft Freshens Retro Code Lock-Down Tool

Microsoft has released a new version of a software tool that developers and administrators can use...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 09/07/2010

Microsoft releases Windows Phone 7 to manufacturers (RTM)

Security relevant? Not sure... Fun? Definitely! Can't await mine... ;-)But to still give it a...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 09/03/2010

Microsoft Releases SDL Docs with Creative Commons License

[PCMag] In the last several years, for the most part, Microsoft "got" the importance of security and...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/31/2010

Anti-DoS Dynamic IP Restrictions for IIS 7.0 Hits Beta2

Microsoft has made available for download the second Beta development milestone of an anti-DoS...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 08/31/2010

Security Secrets the Bad Guys don't want you to know

[PCWorld] You already know the basics of internet security, right? But when you've got the basics...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/21/2010

A group of 15 Nations agree to start working together to reduce Cyberwarfare Threat

[The Washington Post] A group of nations — including the United States, China and Russia...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/21/2010

Microsoft Malware Protection Center - The Stuxnet Sting

For the past week or so, MSRC has been closely tracking a new family of threats called Stuxnet (a...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/21/2010

What does it mean if my version of Windows is no longer supported?

An unsupported version of Windows will no longer receive software updates from Windows Update. These...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/14/2010

How the Microsoft Azure appliance changes the cloud computing skyscape

Microsoft executive Bob Muglia said he was meeting with a chief information officer last year when...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/14/2010

Reminder: Support for Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2000 ended July 13, 2010

As Microsoft announced in 2008, support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) will end on July 13,...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 07/14/2010

Microsoft Offers Developers Cloud Security Tips

Microsoft this week published a best practices guide for writing applications to its Windows Azure...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 06/18/2010

3.7 Billion Phishing Emails were sent in the last 12 Months

[Network World] Cyber criminals sent 3.7 billion phishing emails over the last year, in a bid to...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 06/18/2010

Microsoft Unveils One-Stop Service for Reporting Stolen Accounts

Microsoft on Thursday unveiled a program to alert banks and online services when accounts they...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 06/18/2010

It's my blog again... ;-)

You have probably recognized that we completely changed the blog platform. Not only that I was...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 06/18/2010

New Microsoft Windows cloud service for managing and securing PCs: Intune (Beta)

Windows Intune Beta Windows Intune simplifies how businesses manage and secure PCs using Windows...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 04/21/2010

New Twitter Account: @MSFTSecResponse

MSRC blogs: We will use this account to augment the content here on the blog. For example, we will...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 04/09/2010

Microsoft Security Compliance Manager released

The Security Compliance Manager will help you accelerate knowledge to merge best practices,...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 04/08/2010

Microsoft out-of-band security bulletin release for IE

Microsoft has released an out-of-band security bulletin on March 30, 2010. The bulletin is being...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/31/2010

Think You’re Immune from Online Fraud? Maybe Not!

Bill Mullins’ Weblog: Guest writer Dave Brooks, a vastly experienced computer tech from New...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/30/2010

XBox Project Natal at E3

Not really security relevant, but cool anyway... some more info on project...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/25/2010

What your users don't know about vulnerabilities can hurt you

DarkReading: If your security strategy relies on end users to perform updates or avoid risky...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/24/2010

Seattle Tops List of Riskiest Cyber Crime Cities!

MSNBC:Seattle is the riskiest online city, according to a new survey. Symantec says Seattle tops the...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/24/2010

Protecting Against Terrorism [PDF]

Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure: This publication offers security advice and...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/24/2010

Microsoft cloud-computing service offers federal agencies

New Microsoft cloud-computing service offers federal agencies a high level of security, including...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/21/2010

Newest Security Reports Show Changing Threats

Scott Hogg, Core Networking and Security: "I find it useful to seek out new perspectives on the...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/20/2010

High-Tech Copy Machines a Gold Mine for Data Thieves

Victor Beitner, a security expert who reconfigures photocopy machines destined for resale in...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/20/2010

Elevation of Privilege (EoP) Card Game

Elevation of Privilege is the easy way to get started threat modeling. Threat modeling is a core...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/20/2010

MS: What We Know (and Learned) from the Waledac Takedown

Very interesting article from the MSRC: Recently, following an investigation to which various...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/20/2010

Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6 (Draft)

[NIST] With the dwindling number of IPv4 addresses, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/04/2010

Microsoft Security Awareness Toolkit

Information security awareness and training is critical to any organization’s information security...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/04/2010

Microsoft's new Identity Management Software: Forefront Identity Manager 2010

[Computerworld] Microsoft announced at the RSA Conference on Tuesday that it has begun shipping...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 03/04/2010

Pentagon Searches for ‘Digital DNA’ to Identify Hackers

One of the trickiest problems in cyber security is trying to figure who’s really behind an attack....

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/10/2010

Intel Atom Netbooks Get Whole-Disk Encryption

TechWorld: Netbook users worried about storing sensitive data on their portables are being offered...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/10/2010

Study: 73% use Bank Password everywhere

For years computer security experts have been preaching that users should never share the same...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/05/2010

Microsoft released a template for applying its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) methodology to...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/05/2010

How Wi-Fi Attackers are poisoning web browsers

Public Wi-Fi networks such as those in coffee shops and airports present a bigger security threat...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/05/2010

Cisco's (and other's) backdoor for Hackers

Activists have long grumbled about the privacy implications of the legal backdoors that networking...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/05/2010

Report details hacks targeting Google and others

It’s been three weeks since Google announced that a sophisticated and coordinated hack attack dubbed...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/05/2010

Technology as a Substitute for the IT Security Pro?

"We are providing a technical solution that will eliminate the need for a lot of cyber professionals...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 02/05/2010

Microsoft Security Essentials vs. Kaspersky, Nod32, BitDefender, Symantec, McAfee

Believe it or not, but the recently introduced, free security solution from Microsoft manages to...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 12/08/2009

So Much Data, So Little Encryption

If you go solely by top-level stats on encryption use, you'll come away feeling pretty secure — 86...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 11/27/2009

9 Ways to Increase the Security of Your Laptop While on the Road

Using your laptop to get work done away from your office or on the road is becoming widely accepted....

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 11/27/2009

The Microsoft Security Update Guide

This guide was designed to help IT professionals better understand and use Microsoft security...

Author: Microsoft Swiss Security Team Date: 11/27/2009

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