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Bedtime reading? RT: @stevewerby: Skimming the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report. A whopping 232 pages... http://bit.ly/74qw9I 35 hours ago |
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Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) http://bit.ly/c8gnQ volumen 7 http://bit.ly/1wcFRb 11 days ago |
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Local ISP in my own little province made the MS list of bad webhosters serving malware, hitting nr. 7 world wide. http://bit.ly/c8gnQ 14 days ago |
Microsoft: Vista Infected 62% Less Often Than XP
Netflash —
... 's latest Security Intelligence Report , released Monday. The infection rate of Windows Vista SP1 was 61.9 percent less than Windows XP SP3, the company said. The report covers the first half of 2009 and is the seventh such twice-yearly report the company has issued. The study found that for all Microsoft operating systems that the most current service pack is always the least infected, based on infections per 1,000 computers running each OS. Windows 7 was not included in the report; here is ...
MS Security Intelligence Report Has Valuable Insight
Netflash —
... . Looking at the highlights of the Security Intelligence Report , a lot of the information is interesting and may help you win a game of Trivial Pursuit for geeks, but doesn't provide much beyond the trivia factor for most people. For example, knowing which countries were targeted most by worms or Trojans doesn't really help you much unless you're planning on traveling to one of those countries and may want to increase your security controls accordingly. Other statistics provide more useful information. The fact that 71.2 percent of the attacks against Microsoft Office ...
Microsoft Security Report Underscores Weak Enterprise Security Policies
eWeek - RSS Feeds —
In an analysis of the top security threats during the first half of 2009, Microsoft's findings show the importance of having sound guidelines governing thumb drives and connecting to corporate networks from machines outside the enterprise. According to Microsoft, both Conficker and another notorious worm took advantage of poor policies around USB devices to spread. In its bi-annual snapshot of the security landscape , Microsoft has uncovered a resurgence a worms that underscores the importance of having sound security guidelines for removable USB devices accessing corporate ...
Microsoft Security Report Released
Redmond Report —
... Microsoft Security Report Released Security experts commented on Version 7 of Microsoft's Security Intelligence Report (SIR), which was announced this week. The report covers software security from January through June of this year, finding that of all threat categories, worms grew the most in 2009. However, trojans still hold first place as the most wide-ranging and prevalent threat. One striking finding is that worm infections "in the enterprise rose by nearly 100 percent during the first half of 2009" compared with the preceding six months. Tyler Reguly, a senior security ...
