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Has Microsoft Found the Secret Security Sauce in A1?

Do users trust Microsoft enough to allow the Redmond vendor to secure their systems? Microsoft has been testing out, for at least two years, the...

Study: Phishers Get More Sophisticated

A technical study of phishing techniques published this week by the Honeynet Project has found that large numbers of users are still being readily...

FTC Proposes Tightening CAN-SPAM Act

The Federal Trade Commission is proposing five changes to the CAN-SPAM Act and is seeking comment on these proposals by June 27. The CAN-SPAM...

Fake Microsoft Patch Triggers Virus Attack

Like day follows night, a bogus "cumulative update" with a malicious attachment has followed Microsofts patch day. In what has become a monthly staple, virus...

Sober Analysis of Mail Worms and Spam

Most of us got some of that weird German nationalist spam recently. The spam barrage was performed through a new bot network created by...

Strider HoneyMonkey: Trawling for Windows Exploits

Microsoft Corp. is developing a network of Windows XP "honeymonkeys" to help detect rogue Web sites that exploit security holes to install malware on...

Will Enterprises Care About Windows OneCare?

Microsoft is working on a souped-up version of the Windows OneCare desktop security bundle for enterprise customers, an ambitious bet that theres value in...

Microsoft Presents a Grand Digital-ID Plan

Microsoft has a grand plan for digital-identity management. And over the next few months, the company will begin to deliver Microsoft implementations of some...

New TCP/IP Flaw Haunts Windows

Microsoft on Wednesday issued a prepatch advisory to counter the publication of exploit code for a newly discovered vulnerability in its implementation of TCP/IP.The...

Fun with Spam

Most people dont think of fun and spam as residing in the same universe. But if you cant beat it, I say, why not...