Latest news
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Microsoft to release five bulletins next week
07.06.2013
Microsoft released advance notification for next week’s Microsoft patch and it looks like we're getting only five bulletins.
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Microsoft and FBI disrupt global cybercrime ring
06.06.2013
Microsoft, the FBI, Agari, financial services industry leaders FS-ISAC, NACHA, and other industry partners, managed to break up a massive cybercrime ring which was stealing people’s online banking information and personal identities.
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Windows 8.1 will allow locking folders with a finger
05.06.2013
Windows 8.1 is scheduled to be released at the end of 2013, and among the various changes that Microsoft aims to implement in it is native support for fingerprint readers, so that fingerprint-based authentication becomes an integral part of the users' experience.
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Migration and monitoring of Microsoft environments
30.05.2013
Dell Software announced a series of new enhancements designed to help organizations optimize the migration, management and monitoring of Microsoft environments.
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Microsoft decrypts Skype comms to detect malicious links
23.05.2013
The issue addresses last week by The H and their associates at heise Security of whether or not Microsoft checks links contained in encrypted Skype chat sessions and their claim that it did has raised quite a few questions.
Spotlight

The security of WordPress plugins
Posted on 18 June 2013. | Checkmarx’s research lab identified that more than 20% of the 50 most popular WordPress plugins are vulnerable to common Web attacks, such as SQL Injection.

Information security executives need to be strategic thinkers
Posted on 17 June 2013. | George Baker, the Director of Information Security at Exostar, talks about the challenges in working in a dynamic threat landscape, offers tips for aspiring infosec leaders, and more.

Large orgs in denial about own security breaches?
Posted on 14 June 2013. | Over two thirds (66%) of large organizations said they either had not experienced a security incident in the last 12-18 months or were unsure if they had.

Vulnerability scanning with PureCloud
Posted on 12 June 2013. | nCircle PureCloud is a cloud-based network security scanning product built upon the companies' vulnerability and risk management system IP360.

Reactions from the security community to the NSA spying scandal
Posted on 11 June 2013. | Read on for comments on this scandal that Help Net Security received from a variety of security professionals and analysts.
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