Security

Wed, March 14, 2007 - Microsoft has filed two new lawsuits against companies it accuses of registering domain names similar to its trademarks. It has also settled three similar suits with other companies, it said Wednesday.It alleges that the companies intentionally registered domain names with variations of its trademarks, a practice known as cybersquatting, or misspellings of those names, known as typosquatting. Often, domains registered ...

Wed, March 14, 2007 - In partnership with Q1 Labs, will study info and network security.

Tue, March 13, 2007 - It’s corporate America, not rogue hackers, who are primarily to blame, says an assistant professor at the University of Washington.

Fri, March 09, 2007 - Microsoft is not planning to release any security updates on Tuesday, one of only a handful of times the company won’t have security patches available since its monthly security updates began in 2003, Microsoft said Thursday.Microsoft is working on patches for known vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 7, Office 2007’s Publisher 2007 and Windows Vista OS, but they are not ready ...

Wed, March 07, 2007 - What do cats and Internet security have in common? If you had attended Microsoft’s TechFest 2007 on Tuesday in Redmond, Wash., you would know.At the event, which gave Microsoft Research a chance to demonstrate technologies that may one day turn up in Microsoft or third-party products, the research group out of Redmond showed off Animal Species Image Recognition for Restricting Access ...

Fri, March 02, 2007 - Researchers in the United States say they’ve successfully shown how attackers could compromise a network designed to make it harder to trace Internet surfers and the websites they are viewing.The researchers, from the University of Colorado in Boulder, focused their efforts on The Onion Router (Tor) network. Tor software enables the creation of networks of servers that can send ...

Thu, March 01, 2007 - Microsoft and some industry partners are promoting a new certification process designed to make it harder for phishers to spoof websites. The plan gives third-party certification authorities like VeriSign and Entrust more stringent guidelines for authenticating websites. A resulting new seal of approval, an Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layer (EV SSL) certificate, may reassure consumers that they are handing information ...

Thu, March 01, 2007 - Everyone complains about information security, but no one does anything about it. However, if breaches begin to exact a financial penalty, that surely will change.

Thu, March 01, 2007 - The Open Web Application Security Project Foundation makes a list of the top Web application vulnerabilities and what to do about them. Here are five of the most common.

Thu, March 01, 2007 - Security managers have to keep their cool and clearly communicate with chief information officers (CIOs) during a crisis affecting company networks, a top security official with Microsoft said Wednesday.Otherwise, trying to educate CIOs in a panic mode will complicate how an attack is countered, said Greg Galford, Microsoft security architect, who gave a presentation at the EuSecWest 2007 security conference ...