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Reactions from the security community to the Trustworthy Computing Initiative
This week, Microsoft is celebrating 10 years of its Trustworthy Computing Initiative (TwC). One of the most well-known outcomes of Trustworthy Computing is the Microsoft …
10 years of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Initiative
Ten years ago this week, during a time when security problems were threatening trust in software products, Bill Gates sent an email to all Microsoft full-time employees …
Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Deploying Cloud-Based Solutions
Take your Microsoft SharePoint solutions to the cloud and gain scalability and high availability while helping to lower your operational costs. Led by a SharePoint expert, …
Highly secure cloud-based collaboration
Exostar announced ForumPass 5, a multi-enterprise project collaboration service offering built on Microsoft SharePoint 2010. It operates within Exostar’s Community …
Microsoft releases seven bulletins
2012’s first Patch Tuesday has seven bulletins, including the postponed bulletin from December 2011 that addresses the BEAST style information disclosure. Talking about …
Exploit code for recent ASP.NET DoS flaw made public
The ASP.NET DoS flaw that has recently been revealed at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin has been patched by Microsoft in almost record time, but users who have not …
January 2012 Patch Tuesday preview
Microsoft is starting 2012 with a surprisingly large first release of seven security bulletins covering eight separate vulnerabilities. In contrast, in past years we usually …
Microsoft releases MS11-100 for ASP.NET DoS attack
Today Microsoft released a security bulletin addressing a flaw in ASP.NET that was disclosed early morning yesterday at the Chaos Communication Congress (CCC) in Berlin. …
Microsoft provides protection for ASP.NET vulnerability
Microsoft published Security Advisory 2659883 to provide a workaround to help protect ASP.NET customers from a publicly disclosed vulnerability that affects various Web …
Windows 8 will have picture password sign in
As much as security experts would like for it to be otherwise, experience has taught us that no matter how many times some people are lectured on the use of complex passwords, …
Silent updating for Internet Explorer
Microsoft announced that in 2012 Internet Explorer will be updated “silently” to its newest possible version. This new silent update will eliminate the pop-up …
Microsoft patches 19 vulnerabilities
For the December Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released thirteen security bulletins that fix vulnerabilities targeting Windows, Internet Explorer, and Office. Three are marked as …