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Wednesday, June 07, 2006 12:55 PM

Home Office Security Checklist

Any day Microsoft publishes a checklist that will make the life of the IT Pro easier is a good day. Good day - please pass on the Home Office Security Checklist to your users, and encourage them to take the steps therein. It will reduce your headaches
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Wednesday, May 31, 2006 8:43 AM

New Phishing Attacks

Educate your users and friends/family...Microsoft never sends patches (updates) in an e-mail. According to Techweb today, a couple of Trojans are posing as Microsoft patches/updates. The first line of the spoofed e-mail "Microsoft Cooporation"
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Monday, May 08, 2006 5:53 PM

Xray that iffy site with URL Tracer, block the typo-squatters

Microsoft Research has released one of its Strider tools, URL Tracer.  Security Watch says it "reveals all of the links beneath a given URL. This allows you to see what third-party domains are being linked to from within a given site, possibly links
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Thursday, May 04, 2006 1:06 PM

New Microsoft Security Blog to Watch

Keep an eye on the new Jeff Jones Security Blog. Great new post On Disingenuous Analysis and Transparency from a guy who's CV looks like: Security engineer doing risk assessments for the Air Force and Orange Book evaluation work for the NSA. Kernel
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Wednesday, April 05, 2006 7:02 AM

Phish Hooks Study

This BBC article claims in a recent study 40% of users failed to spot phony bank phishing websites. The most sophisticated site caught out 90% of the 22 people participating. Here's their advice for you users to avoid getting hooked:
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Friday, March 31, 2006 8:22 AM

MBSA 1.2 Lives on

CNET reports today that MBSA 1.2.1 will not be retired today as previously announced. The most current version of MBSA is 2.0, but there are core technology and functionality differences between the two versions, and some customers gave feedback they
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Thursday, February 09, 2006 12:32 AM

NEW Antigen site on TechNet

The Antigen TN site is live, althought the download link takes you to Sybari and requires registration information. Antigen is a server-level antivirus, anti-spam and content filtering solutions that helps businesses protect their e-mail and collaboration
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Monday, February 06, 2006 1:49 PM

LUA Lower Now

A new paper from the MSSC to help you LUA:  Applying the Principle of Least Privilege to User Accounts on Windows XP. Blurbage: A defense-in-depth strategy, with overlapping layers of security, is the best way to counter malicious
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Thursday, January 26, 2006 5:17 PM

Is It Safe?

Imagine Olivier in MARATHON MAN interrogating Dustin Hoffman's character ..."Is it safe?" The Windows Live Safety Center (Beta) launched a few months ago, and provides you with a FREE, frequently updated, on-demand virus scanner which
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006 7:11 PM

How Microsoft IT Does Patch Management Presentation

Successful patch management is crucial to maintaining computer security at any organization. Organizations can learn from the Microsoft IT department’s experience with over 200,000 clients in a challenging environment. Microsoft IT continues to improve
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 8:32 PM

Upcoming Webcasts: MOM for Exchange, SMS for Security Updates

Some upcoming webcasts that you should take a look at: TechNet Webcast: Best Practices for Security Update Management with Systems Management Server 2003 (Level 200) Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time, John Baker, TechNet
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Thursday, January 12, 2006 9:18 PM

Patch Tuesday in a Box

I love this company. Starting with the Jan 06 secbulls, you can now get Security and critical updates on ISO-9660 CD image files from the Microsoft Download Center. January's is here. How cool is that? Leave comments.
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Thursday, January 12, 2006 5:09 PM

Patch Tuesday Planner

I love this company. How cool is it that Dugie's posted a spreadsheet that tells you when each patch tuesday falls for the next 2 years so you can schedule lab time for testing? Leave comments.
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Thursday, January 12, 2006 4:42 PM

The Cavalry Has Arrived - WSSRA-VE

Many of the problems in enterprise IT worldwide have a common underlying root causative element - it is way too hard to test and model changes to the production environment BEFORE they are committed. NO MORE. What if you could model your enterprise
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Monday, January 09, 2006 10:32 PM

Drive XP With More Security

Download and make available to all your super-users NOW, you will be glad you did. The Windows XP Common Criteria Guide provides sufficient guidance to allow a non-administrative (e.g. non-privileged) user to securely operate Windows XP Professional and
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