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Nevis Labs Identifies Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows Live OneCare
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| Nevis Networks, a market leader in secure switching and identity-based policy
| enforcement appliances, today announced that Nevis Labs has identified
| vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows Live OneCare.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080514006196&newsLang=en
Microsoft harms Apple too:
Windows and Apple Mac Users Warned of Microsoft Security Holes Which Could Lead
to Hacker Attack
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| Vulnerabilities discovered, including critical flaws in Mac and Windows
| versions of MS Office; Microsoft has rated four of the vulnerabilities
| as 'critical'.
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http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/28396/
"The threat to cancel Mac Office 97 is certainly the strongest bargaining point
we have, as doing so will do a great deal of harm to Apple immediately. I also
believe that Apple is taking this threat pretty seriously."
--Ben Waldman, Microsoft manager
Recent:
Windows Live Support Almost Killed Me
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| News Commentary. When Windows Live OneCare fails, it's murder.
|
| Yesterday, I wasted several hours trying to get working the ailing OneCare
| installed on my daughter's Sony VAIO laptop. Oh, joy.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/security/windows_live_support_almost_killed_me.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/32gpxt
Related:
OneCare upgrade brings headaches
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| Since November, Microsoft has been slowly rolling out an update to its
| Windows Live OneCare security software. Although the update was designed to
| bring in new features, such as the ability to monitor the health of multiple
| PCs, some say the new version has brought only headaches.
|
| Robert Webb of North Carolina said he started having problems from the moment
| his software was upgraded in early December.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9848831-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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| Asked about these problems, Arno Edelmann, Microsoft's European business
| security product manager, told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the code itself
| has pieces missing.
| "Usually Microsoft doesn't develop products, we buy products. It's not a bad
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| product, but bits and pieces are missing," said Edelmann.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39286351,00.htm
I'm Getting More Concern than (One)Care
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| Apparently, OneCare doesn't think too much of my corporate connection
| and switches status from "automatic" to "restricted" during VPN
| connection. This has been the case since I installed OneCare last
| week. So, why the futz now?
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http://www.seopher.com/articles/30_considered_a_move_to_linux_over_vista
Microsoft confirms OneCare zaps Outlook, Outlook Express e-mail
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| Microsoft Corp. has acknowledged that a bug in its Windows Live
| OneCare security suite has been causing users' e-mail to vanish
| from Outlook and Outlook Express.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012499
Windows Live Onecare beta ate my hard disk
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| So when the 90 day trial expired, he thought it well worth the
| $90 or so which Microsoft asked for a licence. When he rung up,
| he was surprised to be informed that the Beast isn't yet selling
| the product outside America.
|
| So he was suddenly left with an XP machine that was defenceless
| and with plenty of data that was now unreadable.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36111
Microsoft using early Vista users as guinea pigs?
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| Interesting to read in the International Herald Tribune this week
| about Microsoft hitting a 'crisis of confidence' with its new Vista
| operating system.
|
| [...]
|
| Sounds familiar? Your bet - it's almost an exact re-run of the
| security issues that affected Windows XP in its earliest days.
|
| Microsoft wouldn't be using its Vista users - as it did with XP -
| as guinea pigs, now would it?...
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http://securityblog.itproportal.com/?p=646
Microsoft shipped OneCare unfinished?
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| Since shipping in May, OneCare has failed industry tests and exposed
| users to attack because of a security flaw in the antivirus engine.
| The application also incorrectly flagged Gmail as a virus and in some
| cases quarantined or even deleted complete in-boxes when a single
| e-mail was laden with a virus.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-6168629.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Schneier: Lots of Security Software Is 'snake Oil'
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| IDG News Service: So what do you think is the biggest threat right now?
|
| Schneier: Crime.
|
| IDG News Service: So how do you fix it? It's expensive to investigate, it's
| cross-jurisdictional.
|
| Schneier: It might not be fixable. A lot of [the solution] is going to be
| making the things that criminals are going after harder to get. You're not
| going to stop the criminals.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144938/schneier_lots_of_security_software_is_snake_oil.html
Malware still malingering for up-to-date anti-virus users
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| Having anti-virus software and keeping it up to date is no longer enough to
| keep from geting infected by malware.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/04/11/panda_infected_or_not/
The rise of the Malware Mafia
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| Organized group's embrace of cyber crime has been made possible by the
| availability of highly specialized malware, which has lowered the barriers to
| entry. As a result, Alperovitch said, "The profile of arrested criminals is
| changing from tech savvy teens to traditional criminals with mile-long rap
| sheets for drugs and propagating fake checks."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/11/organized_crime_embraces_net/
The Dirty Secret Behind 1,000,000 Viruses
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| But there's something missing in this paragraph – and, indeed, in the whole
| story: it's the word “Windows”. This is the dirty secret behind viruses: they
| are overwhelmingly found on Windows systems. The huge, global cost of viruses
| is just one of the hidden extra fees that we all, collectively, must pay when
| others use Microsoft Windows. Pity Microsoft doesn't use some of its
| extensive cash holdings to compensate victims of its poor coding.
|
| Now, of course, if all the world used GNU/Linux, that wouldn't mean that
| viruses would cease to exist: the focus of malware would shift, and viruses
| would become more common for that system too. But you can bet they'd be far
| harder to write, and that there would be far less than a million.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=685
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
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