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Tag Archives: microsoft
Why Finland has so little malware
Tim Rains from Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing group recently posted an excellent series of short blog posts titled Lessons from Some of the Least Malware Infected Countries in the World. Tim asked local security experts in each of these countries why … Continue reading
What’s in a name?
One of the most interesting aspects of yesterday’s announcement of another botnet takedown engineered by Microsoft was the naming of the owners of the .cz.cc domain in their lawsuit. …this case highlights an industry-wide problem pertaining to the use of … Continue reading
Tagged botnets, microsoft, subdomains, takedowns
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Building upon Scott Charney’s “public health” proposal
At the RSA security conference this week, Microsoft’s Scott Charney continued advocating a "public health model" for fighting malware and other security threats. I missed Charney’s keynote, but I spoke to a couple members of his Trustworthy Computing team on … Continue reading
Tagged microsoft, policy, publichealth
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Sowing the Seeds – What Next?
In "Sowing the Seeds for a Safer Internet," a piece for InfoWorld, Roger Grimes calls on the tech industry to work together to create a unified malware warning system: …I think we all need a warning service built in to … Continue reading
New IE vulnerability being exploited
The security community is already seeing examples of drive-by downloads taking advantage of a newly-announced vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The vulnerability is explained here and the exploit is described (in Chinese) here.
Tagged ie, microsoft, stopbadware
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Microsoft Morro to proxy Internet traffic? Not likely.
A blog post at PC World by Frank Ohlhorst implies that Microsoft’s forthcoming free anti-malware product, Morro, will proxy users’ Internet traffic: Morro will work by routing all of a users Internet traffic to a Microsoft datacenter, where the Morro … Continue reading
Tagged microsoft, morro, stopbadware
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Microsoft releases security report
Microsoft released their fairly comprehensive Security Intelligence Report today. Among the interesting badware-related findings: Rogue security products, such as XP Antivirus 2008 and its many similarly-named variants, have increased significantly in recent months Attackers are increasingly focusing on exploiting applications … Continue reading
Tagged microsoft, research, stopbadware
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When being careful isn’t enough
The big news in the malware world this week was the spread of a new zero day exploit for Internet Explorer. Microsoft responded fairly quickly, releasing an emergency patch yesterday, but meanwhile, the bad guys were working quickly to hack … Continue reading
Tagged ie, microsoft, stopbadware
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Microsoft Live Search adds malware warnings
Microsoft Live Search recently joined Yahoo! and StopBadware partner Google in warning users about malware-infected websites in search results: As Live Search crawls the web, we assess whether a page contains any malicious elements or exhibits any malicious behavior, and … Continue reading
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Oliver guest blogs at SecurityFocus
StopBadware.org staff security researcher Oliver Day has a guest blog post at SecurityFocus that explores the relationship between Microsoft’s anti-piracy measures and the number of vulnerable Windows machines around the world. His conclusion: The simple answer is that the current … Continue reading
Tagged microsoft, securityfocus, stopbadware
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