Friday, May 30th, 2008
Microsoft on Friday said it is investigating reports of "a blended threat that allows remote code execution on all supported versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista when Apple's Safari Web browser has been installed."An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by tricking a user into visiting a maliciously crafted Web ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Students at the Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany, say they have found a way to steal security tokens in Microsoft's new CardSpace authentication framework. Attackers can apparently get access to protected, encrypted user data – such as passwords, credit card numbers, and delivery addresses – when they are transmitted. ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Microsoft have just published an article on the 5 most misunderstood features in Windows Vista from IT Professional's & Developer's point of view, these include:
User Account Control (UAC)
Image Management
Display Driver Model
Windows Search
64-bit version
Head over to the Microsoft Download Center to grab the document.
Source: Nicholas Rayner
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
Microsoft plans to release Office 2007 Service Pack 1 via the company's automatic update service starting June 16.The advanced announcement is a result of the software maker's promise to give at least a 30-day notice before making Office service packs available through Microsoft Update, which is a part of Windows ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Microsoft's Vista operating system is more susceptible to malware than Windows 2000, and though it's 37% more secure than Windows XP, it's still too vulnerable.That's the contention of security vendor PC Tools, which has a financial interest in the vulnerability of Microsoft's software.
"Ironically, the new operating system has been hailed ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
This is a pretty new tool and a very cool one, Hibernation is a fairly new feature for Windows so it’s good to see a new tool targeting that.
Microsoft provides a feature called Hibernation also know as suspend to disk that aims to save the system state into an undocumented ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Microsoft has dropped its nearly three-month-long pursuit of Yahoo, ending a historic acquisition attempt whose failure takes Microsoft back to square one in its quest to boost its online business to better compete against Google.
"We continue to believe that our proposed acquisition made sense for Microsoft, Yahoo and the market ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Well, Microsoft has finally come clean about the real motivation behind Vista's User Account Control feature. As Tom Espiner's reports from the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft UAC Program Manager David Cross admits that UAC was designed to annoy users.
Espiner quotes Cross telling the security-conference audience that negative ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Microsoft has provided security advice to web developers using its products after many such sites were compromised. Last week, hundreds of thousands of web pages were infected with a malicious iframe which tries to infect visitors with a trojan. Many high profile sites including the United Nations (un.org), the UK ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
The automatic patch-based exploit generation problem is: given a program P and a patched version of the program P', automatically generate an exploit for the potentially unknown vulnerability present in P but fixed in P'. In this paper, we propose techniques for automatic patch-based exploit generation, and show that our ...
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