Archive for the ‘Security’ Category

17 Years isn’t old ! But … if it’s a bug YOU Might Want to Take Caution

Written by Jonathan on January 21st, 2010 | Posted in Security | Tags: ,

Yea, the bug we are talking about is of course not a real “bug”. But imagine a security exploit lives for that long in the Windows Kernel and for ...

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Microsoft Released A Out-of-Band Security Update for IE

Written by Kent on January 21st, 2010 | Posted in Security | Tags: ,

Microsoft finally released this security update to fix the vulnerability in IE that was used to attack Google and other 33 companies last week. This security ...

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IE Plays A Big Rule in Chinese Attacks on Google [update]

Written by Kent on January 20th, 2010 | Posted in Security | Tags: ,

Microsoft has issued a Security Advisory (979352) last week to respond the hacking attacks on Google and other 33 big corporations. Now its Security Response Center has more landscape on ...

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IE Plays A Big Rule in Chinese Attacks on Google

Written by Kent on January 15th, 2010 | Posted in General, Security | Tags: ,

One of the biggest things happened this week was the highly-organized hacking attack on Google, Adobe, and among other 33 big firms. And IE seems to be playing a big ...

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Official Virus Scanning Recommendations for Windows 7 from Microsoft

Written by Kent on December 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Security | Tags:

Most of the anti-virus software out there, if not all of them, have the setting that allows you to exclude some of the folders or files from scanning. In some ...

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BitLocker in Question, But Don’t Worry, It’s Still A Foolproof Way of Protecting Sensitive Data

Written by Kent on December 12th, 2009 | Posted in Security | Tags: ,

Passware, a software firm that provides password recovery, decryption, and evidence discovery software for computer forensics, has updated its flagship application to support breaking Microsoft’s BitLocker hard drive encryption, according ...

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Updating Microsoft Security Essentials without Using Windows Update [Tips]

Written by Kent on November 27th, 2009 | Posted in Security, Tips & Tricks | Tags: ,

Microsoft Security Essentials is the latest anti-virus and anti-spyware software developed by Microsoft. It’s a pretty good and reliable product that has been adopted widely by the community since ...

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IE8 SmartScreen Filter Could Save Your Day

Written by Kent on November 24th, 2009 | Posted in Security | Tags: , , ,

Dean Hachamovitch at IE Team had a whew experience when he received an email from his friend with a suspicious link in it last week at PDC. He clicked and ...

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Microsoft Responded To Sophos Windows 7 Vulnerability Claim

Written by Kent on November 8th, 2009 | Posted in Security | Tags: ,

Guys at Sophos, a security vendor, did some test on their SophosLabs with 10 unique samples to a Windows 7 clean installed machine that were configured as system default and ...

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Microsoft Security Essentials Rated Advanced+ in Lab, As Best Free AntiVirus in Windows

Written by Kent on November 2nd, 2009 | Posted in Security, Tools | Tags:

AV-Comparatives has released its Oct 2009 removal comparative report, in which Microsoft Security Essentials was rated as Advanced+, among with other big names like eScan and Symantec. It actually beats ...

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