Top Security Software of 2007
2007 has been a busy year when it comes to computer security, with all kinds of threats aiming to be deployed on people's computers.
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30.12.2007 300 Top Software Developers Worldwide in New Microsoft Development Center
Even as early as July 5, 2007, Microsoft announced that it was extending north of Redmond and into Canada.
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11.9.2008 Microsoft's Security Solutions Explode – Top Sophos, Nod32, McAfee and Trend Micro
n the latest anti-virus comparatives performed by AV-Test, Microsoft's security solutions exploded to an over 95% detection rate, topping household names such as Sophos, Nod32, McAfee and Trend Micro.
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27.8.2007 Microsoft Security Advisory 927891 non security-Fix for Windows Installer
Ok this is the MSI fix (Windows Update Client 100%CPU issue) as discussed before here on Bink.nu. For best results also install the new update client . This client will be distributed worldwide in June through Microsoft/Windows Update and WSUS.
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23.5.2007 Microsoft Windows Vista Security: Setting a New Standard for Security and Privacy Through Innovation and Collaboration
For more than 30 years, information and communications technologies have transformed the global economy and personal communications.
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17.9.2006 Security Tab Fixer for Windows XP - Activate Security Tab Under File, Folder Property Menu
Unlike Windows Vista & Windows 7, Window XP do not show Security tab under file or folder properties dialogue box.
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28.6.2009 Top Vista Features
thepodest prepare great review of Best Windows Vista features on
his blog. thepodest wrote: I have picked what I think are the best features introduced in Windows Vista.
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1.6.2007 The Best of the Best: Microsoft Recognizes Top Vendors
Five of Microsoft’s vendors receive annual Excellence Awards.
Microsoft Corp. today announced the winners of the 2006 Microsoft Vendor Program (MSVP) Excellence Awards. This year’s five winners — Trammell Crow Co., GE Plastics, Taylor Nelson Sofres plc (TNS), MRM Partners Worldwide and Milligan Events — were selected from among more than 20,000 Microsoft vendors in the U.S.
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Top 10 Vista Hacks
You've run Windows Vista, you've played around with the Aero interface, and maybe you've even mucked around a little bit in Vista's innards to see what makes it tick.
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17.4.2007 Internet Explorer comes out on top against Phishing
NSS Labs, an independent security research group, found that Internet Explorer 8 was the best browser tested at thwarting phishing attempts.
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14.8.2009 Your top Windows 7 questions, answered
Since Windows 7 launched on October 22, my e-mail inbox has been deluged with questions, comments, and pleas for help.
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17.11.2009 A Top-to-Bottom Review of Office 12
Releases of Microsoft Office over the past 6 years have been considered evolutionary upgrades, delivering new features with each new version making life a bit easier for authors of Office documents. The release of Office 2000 in 1999 introduced tighter integration with the Web, giving users the ability to flawlessly save documents in HTML format and distribute over the Internet or Intranet, adding stronger ways of accessing information.
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14.1.2006 Review: Top 5 Improvements In Vista RC1
When the CRN Test Center last looked at Microsoft Windows Vista, it was obvious the operating system was far from complete, which wasn't a surprise because it was still a beta version.
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8.9.2006 Top court rules for Microsoft on patent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday overturned a ruling that Microsoft Corp. should be held liable for patent infringement on copies of the Windows operating system sold overseas.
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1.5.2007 Microsoft Partners with Top Social Networks
Today Microsoft is announcing some significant developments to the Windows Live platform that demonstrate Microsoft’s commitment to data portability and giving users a choice of how to use and control their information.
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25.3.2008 Top 6 Vista Application Incompatibility Reasons
Application incompatibility is one of the aspects that have managed to deliver extensive damage to the adoption rate of Windows Vista.
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24.5.2008 10 top Vista tweaks part 2
As I noted in the first installment of this series, some of my favorite productivity-enhancing techniques don’t involve custom code or registry edits.
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18.6.2008 Top 10 reasons why you should upgrade to Windows 7
With the Windows 7 Release Candidate already leaked to the public, and the the official bits coming May 5, there's been a lot of hype surrounding Windows 7, with generally positive reviews from the community. Windows 7 is everything Vista wasn't... and some of what it should of been.
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28.4.2009 Top 10 Windows Freeware tools for 2005
As we head into 2005’s home stretch, I thought I’d do a round-up of my top 10 pieces of Windows Freeware for 2005. Some of these aren’t new, but certainly what I’d consider essential. Some on the other hand, are new. I’ve tried to avoid the instantly popular ones like Firefox and Opera, although I did give way to Winamp and Konfabulator in the end. But hey, it’s my top 10. If you don’t like it, post your own.
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Office 2007 Downloads Top 200,000
In the first 24 hours since going live, Microsoft counted 200,000 downloads of Office 2007 Beta 2. While the company provided no estimates of how many users it expected to try the new release, Microsoft officials said they were excited by the numbers. BetaNews alone pushed over 5,500 downloads of Office 2007.
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26.5.2006 Ballmer: Windows Live Is Top Microsoft Priority
Windows Live is the most important initiative at Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO, told the audience at the annual Gartner Symposium and IT Expo here on Oct. 10.
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11.10.2006 Top 10 New Features in Windows Server 2008
There are a myriad of both subtle and fundamental differences in the basic architecture of Windows Server 2008, which could dramatically change not only the way it's used in the enterprise, but also the logical and physical structure of networks where it's the dominant OS.
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25.5.2007 Top Overlooked Features of Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 is on its way. With the first release candidate in the pipeline, it shouldn't be long before release to manufacturing and general availability.
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8.10.2007 Fixing Windows Vista 3 - Top Troubleshooting Tools
Do you think Windows Vista is slow, crash-prone, or unreliable? Join the crowd. Over the past year, reviews of Windows Vista by mainstream media outlets, the technical press, bloggers, and ordinary users have been, for the most part, scathing.
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7.5.2008 Microsoft CEO sees Web services as top R&D priority
Microsoft Corp. plans to double spending on research and development at its MSN Internet unit as the company focuses on software services, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday.
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5.5.2006 Top 10 Microsoft Windows XP Tips of All Time
Despite all the hoopla about the introduction of Windows Vista, the truth of the matter is that the new OS isn't due for at least another seven to nine months.
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14.8.2006 Top Rated Windows Vista Cracks - When WGA Fails
inuyasha62....Is now Famous (Softpedia). There is little tangible proof of the success of the Windows Genuine Advantage mechanism. Microsoft itself has only statistics as the palpable sign of the fact that the WGA is hard at work.
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30.5.2007 Microsoft: Top 10 Reasons to Stay Away from Google Apps
Google Apps and the Microsoft Office 2007 System have been sicced one another as rivals and with both the Mountain View and the Redmond companies failing to share a common perspective on either the two solutions are indeed competing.
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11.9.2007 Top 10 Absolute Worst Windows Applications in 2007
Think Windows Vista is bad? Well, the fact of the matter is that is largely a subjective perspective that is little open to dispute. However, when it comes down to what users can integrate with the operating system, the situation is a tad more severe.
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5.11.2007 Windows 7 top feature request list leaked to the public
With Windows still managing to find its way to over 95 percent of the desktop computers sold each year, it's not surprising that one can find plenty of people interested in giving their feedback about what future versions of Windows should be able to do.
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18.11.2007Study: Largest vendors account for fewer software flaws
Though it might not seem that
way, the top 10 most
vulnerable software vendors --
and, yes, that includes
Microsoft Corp. -- are
contributing a smaller
percentage of all
vulnerability disclosures per
year compared to five years
ago.
That's
according to an analysis by
Gunter Ollmann, director of
security strategies at IBM's
Internet Security Systems
X-Force team.
Ollmann, who crunched
vulnerability data gathered by
X-Force between 2002 and 2006,
said the overall percentage of
security flaws disclosed by
the most vulnerable software
vendors dropped from 20.2% in
2002 to 14.6% during that
period.
Much of that
decrease is likely the result
of improved quality assurance
and testing processes by the
most vulnerable software
vendors, Ollmann said. Most of
their software packages have
been through multiple versions
and have been combed
thoroughly for vulnerabilities
by security researchers,
Ollmann said...
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26.07.2007SANS Warns of Attack Shift to
Apps, Network Devices
An increase in the
number of holes in software
applications and network
devices like routers and
switches is allowing malicious
hackers to gain access to
sensitive systems, including
government and military
systems, according to the SANS
Institute.
SANS warned of the switch to
attacks on applications and
network devices in its annual
publication of the Top 20
vulnerabilities on Tuesday.
Critical holes in computer
backup and antivirus
applications, as well as
switch and router platforms,
are enabling a new wave of
attacks that is shifting
attention from holes in
operating systems like
Microsoft Corp.'s Windows,
Web and e-mail servers, SANS
said. Software vulnerability
scanning and better patching
are the best way to address
the holes, SANS said.
The annual SANS
Top 20 highlights holes in
software programs that are
considered the most serious
for security professionals. As
in past years, the SANS Top 20
contains warnings about
security holes in Windows and
popular Internet applications
like the Internet Explorer Web
browser and Outlook Express
e-mail program...
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23.11.2005Microsoft's security report: The top 5 takeaways
Microsoft on Wednesday will unveil its sixth Security Intelligence Report and the tomeall 184 pages of ithas a lot of interesting data points culled
from the software giants antivirus applications. Microsoft concludes that rogue security software is a big threat, lost and stolen equipment is a
bigger issue than hacking and PDF and Office extensions are leading vectors...
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08.04.2009Gartner: Antivirus is biggest security expense
Spending on security software across Europe is expected to top 2.4 billion euros ($3.3 billion) this year, with antivirus software continuing to form
the largest slice of the pie.
Antivirus software will account for more than 50 percent of the total security software revenue
market in 2007, according to the calculations by analyst Gartner.
Organizations are getting more sophisticated in the way they
choose security products, and technical evaluations are now common practice, the analyst said. Customers also want to deal with a smaller number of
vendors that can supply products that work well together.
Gartner principal research analyst
Ruggero Contu said that traditionally, the security software
market has been dominated by "best-of-needs" vendors, but the market is now starting to see a gradual consolidation around fewer players.
However, Contu added that security is becoming more complex and difficult for a single vendor to handle. "Customers require products that
integrate with their security architecture rather than disconnected-point solutions," he said in a statement.
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14.09.2007Top Ten predictions for security threats in 2008
The year has not yet ended but McAfee, Inc has already
published its top ten
predictions for security threats in 2008 and it doesn't look rosy folks!
Topping the list is the ever present scapegoat of the year
Windows Vista, McAfee predicts that hackers will start to take a much more varied interest in the operating system as it becomes more widely deployed,
following the Q1 roll out of the highly anticipated Service Pack 1 (SP1) --which is currently under-going its final testing phase of release
candidates.
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17.12.2007Microsoft betting on secure development metamorphosis
Back in 2002, Microsoft executives realized they had a serious problem at hand. As the primary target of a growing global community of amateur
hackers and professional cybercriminals, Microsoft knew it had to do something to improve
the security of its code or it was likely
to become a party pooper at the online fiesta. The Bill Gates
Trustworthy
Computing e-mail of January 2002 got lots of PR focus, but Microsoft's real security work horse was a new development process called the Security
Development Lifecycle (SDL).
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15.10.2008Oracle launches new security strategy and software
This morning, Oracle rolled out an ambitious strategy aimed at achieving more consistent security in large organizations, along with the first four
software components of its new "Service-Oriented Security" architecture...
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12.04.2008Web apps, Office among top security headaches, says SANS
Web-based applications and security holes in Microsoft Office are among the biggest threats faced by Internet users today, according to the SANS
Institute's annual security report.
Developers aren't using secure coding techniques to create Web applications, giving hackers
an opportunity to tap the rich databases of information connected to them, according to SANS, a computer training and security organization.
The
report, which will be
discussed in depth in London Wednesday, compiles information on security threats from governments, security companies, and academics.
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28.11.2007Ants inspire new generation of security software
The way ants behave when their colony is under threat is the inspiration behind a new generation of network security software, which has been
successfully deployed by security experts. By mimicking the behaviour of real ants, security experts hope this method will defeat computer worms
faster than conventional security software. Glenn Fink, a research scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, came
up with the idea. In the natural world ants wonder about randomly, returning to the colony when they find a threat or food. On the way back, they
leave a trail of pheromones. As other ants find the trail, they follow it and reinforce it.
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28.09.2009Top 5 security-menace predictions for 2008
If this year will be remembered for high-profile data breaches, with the TJX break-in topping a long list, then what troubles are in store for
2008?
Predictions include more powerful hacker botnets that elude shutdown and growth in numbers of compromised Web sites that
attack trusting, unsuspecting visitors. Those are some of the picks from Symantecs director of emerging technologies, Oliver Friedrichs. A rundown of
his top five...
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14.11.2007ISPs: Botnets And DoS Attacks Top List of Fears
Botnets and distributed denial-of-service attacks are the biggest security concerns for Internet service providers, according to a new study.
Arbor Networks, a network security company, and the University of Michigan released the results of the third annual Worldwide
Infrastructure Security Report this week. After surveying 70 ISPs on the security issues facing Internet backbone operators, the team reported that
73% of Tier One and Tier Two ISPs and cable operators think they're doing a good job battling the bad guys.
However, the battles
keep changing.
This year, the ISPs report that their top security concern is dealing with the growing number of botnets that are
buffeting the Internet with spam, phishing attacks, and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. And the ISPs aren't allow in their fears. According to the
FBI, because of their widely distributed capabilities, the government considers botnets a growing threat to national security, the national
information infrastructure, and the economy. ..
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18.09.2007Trade group lists top 10 pirated software
The Software & Information Industry Association released its annual Anti-Piracy year in review this week, noting that it reached its largest piracy
settlement yet in a case against Florida Benchmark – which was found using unlicensed software and ended up paying $150,000 – and its
first settlement through its Corporate Content Anti-Piracy Program.
Among other things, the SIIA also made a list of the titles most
pirated by companies and titles most pirated via the internet, much of which consisted of security tools from Symantec and productivity and design
tools from Adobe – makes you wonder if Adobe’s high price points have anything to do with them being a prime piracy target. Check out the
lists in full after the jump.
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27.02.2008Set-top shakeup is in the cards
A new Federal Communications
Commission rule that requires
cable operators to change the
hardware in their set-top
boxes has finally gone into
effect, but few industry
experts believe it will do
much good for consumers or
jump-start competition.
As of Sunday, cable
operators must provide new TV
subscribers with set-top boxes
that have a slot for a special
PC card known as a CableCard.
This card contains decryption
mechanisms that determine if a
user is allowed to view the
video content coming from the
cable operator.
In
the past this security, which
provided conditional access,
was integrated into set-top
boxes that people leased from
their cable operators. But
now, due to the new FCC rule,
that security mechanism will
reside on a separate card that
fits into a slot on the
set-top box.
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02.07.2007Top 14 VoIP vulnerabilities
How are VoIP networks weak and vulnerable to attack and catastrophic failure? Securing VoIP Networks, the new book by Peter Thermos and Ari Takanen,
looks at VoIP infrastructure and analyzes its vulnerabilities much as the Open Web Application Security Project did for Web-related vulnerabilities
and Mitre did with its Common Weakness Enumeration dictionary for software. And its about human failings, too, not just technology problems.
Here are the top VoIP vulnerabilities explained in Securing VoIP Networks...
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02.10.2007Symantec: Fake security software on millions of computers
Millions of computer in the US are infected with fake security software, which their owners may have even paid for, according to a cybercrime report
from security company Symantec. Such software would only make computers more vulnerable, possibly allowing cybercrooks to take complete control of an
infected computer. "Lots of times, in fact they're a conduit for attackers to take over your machine. They'll take your credit card
information, any personal information you've entered there and they've got your machine," said Vincent Weafer, Symantec's vice president
for security response. Symantec found 250 different kinds of fake security software installed on computers, all with perfectly legitimate sounding
names such as "Antivirus 2010" and "SpywareGuard 2008".
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19.10.2009Extending SDL: Documenting And Evaluating The Security Guarantees Of Your Apps
In this article, the author
presents an extension to the
Security Development Lifecycle
that could promote a better
flow of information between
users and designers of
software security features...
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04.11.2006Latest Mac OS X security update addresses 26 vulnerabilities
With greater market share comes greater responsibility; and now the maker of the operating system that analysts believe put Apple back among the US'
top five PC producers, finds itself busy addressing some very old-style security holes...
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16.09.2008Is security software becoming a security risk?
Is the software we're using to protect ourselves from online attacks becoming a liability?
That's what Thierry Zoller believes.
For the past two years, the security engineer for n.runs AG has taken a close look at the way antivirus software inspects e-mail traffic, and he
thinks companies that try to improve security by checking data with more than one antivirus engine may actually be making things worse. Why? Because
bugs in the "parser" software used to examine different file formats can easily be exploited by attackers, so increasing your use of antivirus
software increases the chances that you could be successfully attacked.
Antivirus software must open and inspect data in
hundreds, if not thousands, of file formats. One bug in the software that does this can lead to a serious security breach.
Zoller
and his colleague Sergio Alvarez have been looking into this issue for the past two years, and they've
found more than 80 parser
bugs in antivirus software, most of which have not yet been patched.
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22.11.2007Top 25 common coding errors that brought down websites
The United States National Security Agency (NSA) has released a list of the top 25 coding errors that have landed coders and webmasters into hot
water. The SANS institute located in Maryland reported that "1.5 million websites were breached" because of two types of coding errors that are
on the list. These errors are so malicious and commonly made that the NSA, the Department of Homeland Security, Microsoft, Symantec and many more
published a list, a first of its kind, to help out developers as they are coding. The list is hoped to help those coders and upcoming coders from
making the mistakes that veteran coders learned the hard way.
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13.01.2009The top 10 reasons Web sites get hacked
Web security is at the top of customers' minds after many well-publicized personal data breaches, but the people who actually build Web applications
aren't paying much attention to security, experts say.
"They're totally ignoring it," says IT consultant Joel Snyder. "When
you go to your Web site design team, what you're looking for is people who are creative and able to build these interesting Web sites... That's No.
1, and No. 9 on the list would be that it's a secure Web site."
The biggest problem is designers aren't building walls within
Web applications to partition and validate data moving between parts of the system, he says.
Security is usually something
that's considered after a site is built rather than before it is designed, agrees Khalid Kark, senior analyst at Forrester.
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