Microsoft wrapped up its civil case against the still unnamed controllers of the Rustock botnet and handed off the information gleaned during its investigation to the FBI. But the move doesn’t end the company’s six month operation. Last week, a federal judge granted Microsoft and others the right to lock…
Microsoft accused of dragging its feet with IE9 glitch
Microsoft has been accused by keystroke encryption specialists StrikeForce Technologies of not acting fast enough to fix an Internet Explorer 9 browsing glitch. StrikeForce say the glitch is preventing its tool from working in IE9, even though it worked in Microsoft’s beta version of the product. The problem was first…
Microsoft Joins Mozilla and Google in Blocking DigiNotar Certificates (September 6, 7 & 8, 2011)
Microsoft released an out-of-cycle update for Windows to block all digital certificates issued by DigiNotar……. View full post on SANS NewsBites View full post on National Cyber Security Gergory Evans Gregory Evans | LinkedIn Interview With Gregory Evans Gregory Evans Security Expert Gregory Evans on Cyber Crime
Microsoft Windows Update not vulnerable to DigiNotar SSL hack
Microsoft says that a digital certificate stolen from Dutch company DigiNotar could not be used to force-feed customers malware through its Windows Update service. The company’s assertion came after a massive theft of more than 500 SSL (secure socket layer) certificates, including several that could be used to impersonate Microsoft’s…
Diplomats questioned Microsoft deal with Tunisian regime
The Register: “Microsoft sold software and training to the armed forces of Tunisia’s repressive former regime six years ago, a leaked WikiLeaks cable has revealed.” View full post on cyber pirate – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security Gergory Evans
Microsoft, Vodafone and the Telegraph websites taken down in DNS hack
A Turkish hacking group managed to tamper with Internet addressing records over the weekend, redirecting dozens of websites belonging to companies including Microsoft, UPS and Vodafone to a different web pages controlled by the hackers. According to Zone-H, a website that tracks defacements, 186 websites were redirected to a page…
Iran Involved in Dutch Hack That Touched Google, Microsoft and Twitter, Experts Say
Reuters Iran is becoming more professional and organized in online repression AMSTERDAM – Hackers who broke into a web security firm issued hundreds of bogus security certificates for spy agency websites including the CIA as well as for Internet giants like Google, Microsoft and Twitter, the Dutch government said Monday….
Microsoft turns off advertising supercookies on MSN.com
Microsoft has disabled an online tracking technology that a Stanford University researcher said allowed the company to track users on MSN.com, even after they deleted browser cookies and other identifiers. Mike Hintze, Microsoft’s associate general counsel, said the company took “immediate action” when it learned about the presence of so-called…
AES encryption vulnerable to attack, claim Microsoft researchers
Researchers from Microsoft and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven have discovered a way to break the widely used Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), the encryption algorithm used to secure most all online transactions and wireless communications. The attack can recover an AES secret key three to five times faster than previously thought…
Microsoft lawyer claims no botnet is indestructible
No botnet is invulnerable, a Microsoft lawyer involved with the Rustock take-down said, countering claims that another botnet was “practically indestructible.” “If someone says that a botnet is indestructible, they are not being very creative legally or technically,” Richard Boscovich, a senior attorney with Microsoft’s Digital Crime Unit said. “Nothing…