December 7, 2009 - The number of customers who unknowingly purchased counterfeit Microsoft products has ballooned over the last 2 years, according to the company. Over 150,000 such reports were received in that time, and (continue reading...) Read more
December 7, 2009 - Windows 7 is seeing success in the marketplace which I am very happy about from a security perspective. The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report has shown us again and again that the more up-to-date a PC is, the less likely (continue reading...) Read more
December 7, 2009 - Windows 7 features a guest account that can make it easy for friends and housemates to quickly check their email or the web on your system. Giving it a different name, however, makes it a (continue reading...) Read more
December 5, 2009 - A clever, but difficult attack scenario can compromise the PIN used to protect BitLocker-encrypted drives. The attacker first has to gain access to the computer and boot it off of a specially-configured (continue reading...) Read more
December 5, 2009 - Adobe has acknowledged once again a vulnerability disclosed in Illustrator. Their initial acknowledgement of it was a quickie and they hadn't had much time to study the attack. Now they state (continue reading...) Read more
December 5, 2009 - Intuit has warned that a phishing e-mail targeting QuickBooks users is circulating. The real Intuit alert describes and quotes a fake Intuit alert sent out by e-mail. The fake alert says that (continue reading...) Read more
December 3, 2009 - Cracking passwords is often much easier than users think, even if the passwords they use are strong. For years Passware has shipped products which can break past the protection of passwords in (continue reading...) Read more
December 3, 2009 - As part of their semi-regular Patch Tuesdays, Adobe will release updates next Tuesday for Flash and Air. Versions 10.0.32.18 and earlier of Flash are affected, as are versions 1.5.2 and earlier (continue reading...) Read more
December 3, 2009 - Next Tuesday, December 8, Microsoft will release 6 security bulletins and software updates to address the vulnerabilities described in them. 3 of the bulletins have a maximum rating of critical and (continue reading...) Read more
December 1, 2009 - In the Microsoft Security Response Center Blog the company states that neither their updates nor the Malicious Software Removal Tool are responsible for the recent reports of "Black Screen of Death" (continue reading...) Read more
December 1, 2009 - The "Black Screen of Death" problem we described recently has been eliciting panicked coverage on parts of the Internet and some confusion over how widespread it is. Our impression is that (continue reading...) Read more
November 30, 2009 - Security vendor Prevx is offering a patch for a debilitating bug introduced on their users' systems by the latest updates to Windows XP and Vista. The latest updates cause the system not (continue reading...) Read more
November 30, 2009 - Unless you've been in a cave or working or something like that, you know that famed golfer Tiger Woods was in a car accident recently. News outlets, respectable and otherwise, have (continue reading...) Read more
November 25, 2009 - Everyone knows about Patch Tuesday on the second Tuesday of the month, but it's less-known that Microsoft regularly releases non-security updates on the 4th Tuesday of the month. You might have noticed (continue reading...) Read more
November 6, 2009 - Now that Windows 7 is available, a recent blog by Chester Wisnieski (who works at security vendor Sophos), entitled Windows 7 vulnerable to 8 out of 10 viruses, which has stirred some interest. Here's a quick summary for those who (continue reading...) Read more
June 9, 2009 - User Account Control is one of those Windows features that evokes a number of different responses from folks. Most people appreciate the enhanced security UAC offers, but we did hear complaints about the high number of UAC prompts in Windows (continue reading...) Read more
May 6, 2009 - We have been working in partnership with our independent software vendor (ISV) community to move the ecosystem to a set of new application programming interfaces (APIs) that many ISVs use to report status to Security Center (integrated within Action Center (continue reading...) Read more