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Virtually every Windows PC at risk, says Secunia

2008-12-03 05:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
More than 98% of computers running Windows harbor at least one unpatched application -- and nearly half contain 11 or more programs at risk from attack, according to Danish security company Secunia
 
Tags: windows harbor, risk, half, attack, programs, application, computers
 
 
 
 
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A better DOS than DOS and a better Windows than Windows

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2008-04-17 20:36:34 by HASH0x8b37820 in StillSecure, After All These Years
Anybody remember that slick marketing line? You are a winner if you picked OS/2 . OK I will admit it, I was an OS/2 user. I liked it much better than Windows 3.1 and used it even after Windows 95 came out. I still think it was a superior product to anything that the guys from Redmond put out. Why don't we all run OS/2 today instead of Windows?...
 
Tags: windows, joe wilcox miss, joe, real windows, windows market, microsoft, microsoft server products, wilcox, microsoft exchange
 
 
 
 
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A better DOS than DOS and a better Windows than Windows

2008-04-17 21:33:39 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
Anybody remember that slick marketing line? You are a winner if you picked OS/2 . OK I will admit it, I was an OS/2 user. I liked it much better than Windows 3.1 and used it even after Windows 95 came out. I still think it was a superior product to anything that the guys from Redmond put out. Why don't we all run OS/2 today instead of Windows?...
 
Tags: windows, joe wilcox miss, joe, real windows, windows market, microsoft, microsoft server products, wilcox, microsoft exchange
 
 
 
 
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Windows Vista vs Windows XP SP2 Vulnerability Report 2007

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2008-05-14 22:50:00 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
In the wake of my Windows Vista One Year Vulnerability Report , I have received many questions regarding the current vulnerability record of Windows Vista as compares with Windows XP SP2 This short paper is a compilation of vulnerability data for Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows XP SP2 for calendar year 2007 and a brief analysis to...
 
Tags: windows vista, microsoft windows vista, microsoft windows, windows, sp2, vulnerabilities, fewer vulnerabilities, short paper, vulnerability report
 
 
 
 
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Download: Windows Vista One Year Vulnerability Report

2008-01-23 16:19:00 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
 
Windows Vista shipped to business customers on the last day of November 2006, so the end of November 2007 marks the one year anniversary for supported production use of the product This paper analyzes the vulnerability disclosures and security updates for the first year of Windows Vista and looks at it in the context of its predecessor, Windows...
 
Tags: windows, windows vista, security vulnerability profile, security, windows administrators significantly, systems red hat, predecessor, development process, process
 
 
 
 
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TechEd Session SEC250 - Windows Server Security Advances - 4:30PM Today, Room N320A

2008-06-11 16:28:41 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
 
For those of you that are at TechEd today, I want to invite you around to my session on Security Advances in Windows Server 2008 today in room N320A I'll be covering this general outline SDL work on Windows Server 2008 Architectural security enhancements Security features and capabilities Looking at the security track record for the first 90...
 
Tags: windows server, security advances, capabilities, architectural security enhancements, analysis, security track record, favorite, favorite product, security capabilities
 
 
 
 
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Windows Server 2008 SP2, Vista SP2 on the Way

2008-10-13 06:59:08 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
Hat tip to Tweaking With Vishal for the reference to Neowin where franzon has found a KB article with very preliminary references to Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista Service Pack 2 . There isn't a lot of information in the KB article: Beta Information This article discusses a beta release of a Microsoft product. The...
 
Tags: sp2, windows server, beta information, information, release, product release notes, windows vista sp2, article, beta product files
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft to Release Emergency, Out-of-Band Windows Update Today

2008-10-23 07:36:15 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
At 10 a.m. Pacific Time today, Microsoft will release an emergency security update for Windows. The details of the vulnerability were not revealed in the Advance Notification Bulletin that Microsoft released late last night , but we can assume it's a significant one for Microsoft to go "out of band" and release it before the next scheduled Patch...
 
Tags: windows, windows server, microsoft, affects windows vista, vulnerability affects windows, vulnerability, advance notification, advance notification bulletin, band
 
 
 
 
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Get a Windows Server on the Fly in the Amazon Cloud

2008-10-24 12:26:49 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) was cool enough with its initial platform. Now it is offering Windows support on the EC2 platform . Thanks to Jesper's Blog for the tip. Like a lot about the EC2, this turns out to be really convenient for developers. Did you ever want to develop or test a Windows Web app on a real server, not just your test...
 
Tags: cloud, amazon, windows server, ec2, ec2 platform, amazon describes, real server, elastic compute cloud, test