July 12, 2011 - Hello all -- Over the years we’ve often talked about exploit mitigations – DEP, ASLR, SEHOP and so forth – as effective tools for improving computer security, reducing risk, preventing attacks, and minimizing operational disruption. Today we’re releasing a user’s (continue reading...) Read more
July 12, 2011 - Hello all -- Over the years we’ve often talked about exploit mitigations – DEP, ASLR, SEHOP and so forth – as effective tools for improving computer security, reducing risk, preventing attacks, and minimizing operational disruption. Today we’re releasing a user’s (continue reading...) Read more
July 7, 2011 - Hello all -- This week we released a special Security Intelligence Reportthat showcases (continue reading...) Read more
July 6, 2011 - Facebook has just announced its video chat service, though it's officially named Video Calling. Presumably that gives it a bit more cachet than a mere (continue reading...) Read more
July 5, 2011 - It's something of a truism, that 'old viruses never die', and that certainly seems to be the case for some of the older, more widespread, email worms. In this interview (http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041129/news_lz1b29five.html) back in 2004, I talked about an (continue reading...) Read more
June 18, 2011 - Hello, Today we published the June Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. We fielded fifteen questions on various topics during the webcast, including bulletins released and the Malicious Software Removal Tool. There were two questions during the webcast that (continue reading...) Read more
June 17, 2011 - Too bad it doesn’t exist. I mean really exist. Here is how an anti-phishing day that is designed to be a highly effective educational deterrent to phishing would work. Google, Facebook, Hotmail, Yahoo, Twitter, Myspace, Banks, Online Gaming sites, such as (continue reading...) Read more
June 17, 2011 - Here's a diagnostic window that your shouldn't panic over, certainly if some cold-calling scammer directs you to it by persuading you to run a diagnostic on your own system. But (continue reading...) Read more
June 16, 2011 - On this blog, we’ve discussed the ways that scammers can attack your PC, through malicious software, rogue security alerts, phishing attacks and more. But the bad guys have now devised a new vector: the phone. I first learned about this (continue reading...) Read more
June 16, 2011 - Have you received a phone call at your home from someone claiming to be working for Microsoft or your ISP? Did they claim that they weren't selling anything, but (continue reading...) Read more
June 15, 2011 - Paul Henry, Security and Forensics Analyst for Lumension, discusses the impact of the June 2011 Patch Tuesday releases. Read more
June 15, 2011 - Here's some good news in the ongoing fight against Windows-based malware - it appears that there has been a significant drop in the number of computers being infected (continue reading...) Read more
June 14, 2011 - With 16 bulletins issued from Microsoft today, this month isn’t as big as April (thankfully), but it is still sizable and certainly disruptive, as it affects applications across the board. Click here to watch Paul Henry’s video blog (continue reading...) Read more
June 14, 2011 - Being the second Tuesday of the month, once again it is Patch Tuesday. This is the second (continue reading...) Read more
June 14, 2011 - Hello there. First off, I’d like to share some news regarding the updates we made to the Autorun feature in Security Advisory 967940, which we released in February 2011. The advisory made changes to how Autorun handles “non-shiny” media (continue reading...) Read more
June 14, 2011 - There is plenty of work this month of June for IT administrators - Microsoft's June Patch Tuesday addresses 34 vulnerabilities in 16 distinct bulletins. Nine of the bulletins carry a maximum (continue reading...) Read more
June 14, 2011 - It's "Patch Tuesday", the second Tuesday of the month, which means that later today Microsoft will release its latest bundle of essential security patches. And we already know that it's going to be (continue reading...) Read more
June 9, 2011 - Before we get into this month’s release, we wanted to alert you to updates to a document that’s been central to much of how Microsoft thinks about security. Ten years ago, Microsoft penned the “Ten Immutable (continue reading...) Read more
June 9, 2011 - Microsoft announced today a big Patch Tuesday - they will release 16 security bulletins fixing 34 vulnerabilities on June 14. Nine of the bulletins are rated as critical and the remaining seven (continue reading...) Read more
June 2, 2011 - A chap by the name of Efim Bushmanov has just published a claim that he has reverse-engineered the Skype protocol. He hasn't reversed it completely, and he hasn't yet (continue reading...) Read more