Despite system administrators' efforts to keep Microsoft-supplied packages up to date, non-Redmond software is almost exclusively responsible for the growth in vulnerabilities. 
Don’t wait for something to go wrong before you start classifying, assessing and mitigating the risks to your IT systems. 
While this month's Patch Tuesday will land on Valentine's Day, Microsoft will be delivering nine not-so-sweet bulletin items -- with four of them being classified as "critical" and five "important." 
In this article, Derek Melber discusses some of the most important aspects of endpoint security, including endpoint firewalls and endpoint password policy. 
UserLock, a software solution that limits concurrent logins, restricts access, monitors, alerts and reports on session activity throughout the corporate Windows network, has been picked by PC Mag to be part of their “25 excellent applications for small-to-mid-sized businesses to consider in 2012”. 
Herley and Van Oorschot say that because a succession of rival technologies going back over 20 years have failed to fulfil their potential – even password tech has not really improved during this time – memorising secret strings of characters is here to stay. 
The software giant told an audience of law enforcement officers that it is testing a hosted, real time feed of threat data culled from its botnet takedows and global assets for use by governments, Internet service providers and the private sector. 
The most important technology trends for the coming year include virtualization, cloud computing, social networking and energy efficiency. 
Data breaches are like lightning; they will strike, but you never know where. Some breaches result from negligence, inadvertent disclosure, but many are due to malicious activity.
Microsoft is aware of detailed information that has been published describing a new method to exploit hash tables. Attacks targeting this type of vulnerability are generically known as hash collision attacks. 
Researchers are focusing on making passwords simpler, more secure, even automatic, like a device that can recognize your style of writing or keystroke. 
The Windows 8 feature that logs users in if they touch certain points in a photo in the right order might be fun, but it's not very good security, according to the inventor of RSA's SecurID token. |
With so many users relying on mobile phones and tablets for business, mobile security is a must. Here are 10 reasons why you can’t continue to overlook it. 
I put six popular, free antivirus tools through their paces and measured their impact on startup and shutdown times, disk space, and RAM use. 
Microsoft released 9 patches that fix a total of 21 vulnerabilities. Of these vulnerabilities, 13 remote code execution vulnerabilities, 3 elevation of privilege vulnerabilities, and 5 information disclosure vulnerabilities were patched. 
We focus on keeping the bad guys out with firewalls, intrusion detection, etc, but what about the bad guy is sitting in the cubicle next to you? Learn about misuse cases and how they can help combat the insider threat. 
Exposing the list of WiFi credentials to an unintended party or person without the user’s knowledge can have serious security implications if the former has malicious intent. 
In a surprise filing made late Monday, Microsoft said a former technical expert at a Russian antivirus firm was the person responsible for operating the Kelihos botnet, a global spam machine that Microsoft dismantled in a coordinated takedown last year. 
In celebration of Bill Gates' Trustworthy Computing's (TwC) decade of operation, Microsoft released a retrospective of the company's quality assurance strategy. 
Microsoft kicks off another year of bug squashing, delivering seven security bulletins to seal holes in Windows Server 2008 R2 and desktop versions of Windows in the first Patch Tuesday edition of 2012. 
Learn about Windows Defender Offline Beta and how it helps remove malicious and malicious and other potentially unwanted software. 
It was so close. Microsoft made it 363 days in 2011 without releasing an update outside of the monthly Patch Tuesday cycle. It was also 48 hours away from finishing 2011 in double-digits for security bulletins. But, on December 29, Microsoft pushed out an out-of-band patch -- MS11-100. 
Scott Lowe discusses five smartphone security issues that should be at the top of every CIOs mind. 
An unpatched critical flaw in 64-bit Windows 7 leaves computers vulnerable to a full 'blue screen of death' system crash. The memory corruption bug in x64 Win 7 could also allow malicious kernel-level code to be injected into machines. |
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