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From Tony Bradley, CISSP-ISSAP, for About.com

Security Vendor Gets Past Microsoft PatchGuard

Saturday October 28, 2006
PatchGuard, the technology developed in the upcoming Windows Vista operating system designed to protect access to the kernel on 64-bit systems, has been the source of controversy for a few ... Read More

Microsoft Releases Final Version of Internet Explorer 7

Saturday October 28, 2006
Along with releasing the final version of their anti-spyware product, Windows Defender, Microsoft also officially released the long-awaited Internet Explorer 7. The latest version of the popular web browser has ... Read More

Windows Defender Anti-Spyware Released

Wednesday October 25, 2006
On Tuesday, Microsoft released the final version of their anti-spyware product, Windows Defender. The product has been available in Beta form for months, but Microsoft fixed the issues that were ... Read More

Microsoft Re-Releases Security Bulletin MS06-061

Friday October 20, 2006
One of the October Security Bulletins has been updated and re-released by Microsoft. The revised version includes additional information to remove the security update for Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 ... Read More

10 New Security Bulletins From Microsoft

Monday October 16, 2006
Within a few days of releasing Security Bulletin MS06-055 to address a zero-day exploit in Internet Explorer that was being used to attack vulnerable machines, word spread of a different ... Read More

Books To Help You Secure *Nix

Monday October 9, 2006
One 'solution' for the security issues in the Microsoft Windows operating systems is to just not use it. Many security experts and the techno-geek crowd shun Microsoft in favor of ... Read More

Symantec and McAfee Take Issue With Planned Vista Security

Monday October 9, 2006
Microsoft is wrapping up the final stages of tweaking Vista to get it ready for its official release. Vista includes a number of security updates and changes in the way ... Read More

Step-By-Step: Change Your Wireless Router Default SSID

Monday October 9, 2006
To secure your wireless network, one of the steps you should take is to change your default SSID, or Network Name, for your wireless network. I had previously written a ... Read More

Don't Take The Bait

Monday October 2, 2006
As viruses and worms have declined in numbers, other forms of malware are on the rise. Phishing attacks in particular have become a malware attack of choice for many malware ... Read More

Zero-Day PowerPoint Exploit

Monday October 2, 2006
No sooner did Microsoft release an out-of-cycle patch to address the Internet Explorer VML vulnerability being exploited in the wild, than a new zero-day exploit targeting Microsoft has been discovered. ... Read More

The Death Of Viruses

Monday October 2, 2006
According to this article in The Register, normal viruses and mass-mailing worms seem to be all but dead. As malware has converged and organized crime has gotten involved in developing ... Read More
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