So, that virus which slowed your computer to a crawl? Yeah, that was probably your fault. Microsoft says nearly half of all computer malware – viruses, worms, trojans, adware, etc. – can’t infect your computer without some sort of user interaction. In the first six months of 2011, 44.8 percent…
Microsoft: Most malware rely on familiar techniques
Malicious hackers or malware that exploit vulnerabilities in software or services before they can be patched — so-called “zero-day vulnerabilities” — account for less than 1 percent of computer attacks worldwide, according to a Microsoft report released Tuesday. Indeed, 99 percent of all attacks in the first half of 2011…
Microsoft fixes critical flaws in Windows and Silverlight
Microsoft today shipped eight security updates that patched 23 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, .Net Framework, Silverlight and other bits in its portfolio. Two of the updates were labeled “critical,” Microsoft’s most serious threat ranking, while the other six were rated “important,” the next most severe tag. All but eight…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday Roundup – October 2011
This month Microsoft released 8 security bulletins, including patches for some interesting vulnerabilities. For example, MS11-075, MS11-076, and MS11-077 all address a type of vulnerability triggered by a user accessing a file share. In Microsoft’s own words the user must “open a legitimate file that is located in the same…
Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR)
Microsoft released today volume 11 of its Security Intelligence Report covering the first half of 2011. – Swa Frantzen — Section 66 Article source: http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=11785&rss View full post on National Cyber Security
Zero-day exploits rarely used by criminals, Microsoft finds
Software exploits, including zero-day attacks, appear to play a much smaller part in malware infections than previously thought, Microsoft’s latest Security Intelligence Report (SIRv11) has found. The vast majority of malware infections detected by the company’s Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) for the first half of 2011 depended either on…
Microsoft to patch 23 vulnerabilities next week
Microsoft will ship eight security updates next week to patch 23 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE) and several other products in its portfolio, the company announced this morning. Microsoft sketched out the upcoming patches in an advanced notice of Patch Tuesday’s line-up. Two of the eight updates, which Microsoft…
Google Chrome avoids Microsoft malware designation
Google updated Chrome over the weekend to help users affected by Microsoft’s errant flagging of the browser as malware. New versions of Chrome for both the “stable” and “beta” channels were released Saturday, the day after Microsoft’s antivirus products identified Chrome as the Zeus botnet Trojan, and deleted the “chrome.exe”…
Microsoft red faced as Security Essentials downs Google Chrome
Users of Google’s Chrome browser face a inconvenient road back to a working program after Microsoft’s Security Essentials (MSE) started flagging the software as malware on Friday. In advance of an update, Google’s advice to users is to first update Security Essentials, ensuring that it is running virus signature version…
Microsoft falsely labels Chrome as malware
Google has released a new version of Chrome after Microsoft’s antivirus software flagged the browser as malware and removed it from about 3,000 people’s computers on Friday. Microsoft apologized for the problem and updated its virus definition file to correct the false-positive problem, according to a post from Ryan Naraine…