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Microsoft: Third party apps killing our security
Between the Lines —
November 3rd, 2008 Microsoft: Third party apps killing our security Posted by Larry Dignan @ 12:40 am Categories: General , Software Infrastructure , Security , Web Technology , Microsoft Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista , Microsoft Corp. , Web Browser , Third Party Application , Chances , Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn) , Security , Operating Systems , Microsoft Windows , Software Why would hackers target Microsoft directly when there is so much low hanging fruit hanging from the Windows operating system? The short answer is that hackers won’t attack Microsoft ...
Microsoft fingers Apple and Real for Vista insecurities
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... insecurities in QuickTime, according to Secunia, and only one "less critical" inseurity in RealPlayer 10.x. Whether you can increase your security by uninstalling these particular programs, rather than updating them, is open to doubt. (I uninstalled QuickTime because of its many annoying attempts to sneak itself into my start-up sequence, and its mediocre performance. However, I'm lucky enough not to own an iPod: Apple installs QuickTime along with iTunes.) The New York Times story says: The company said improvements in security for ...
Microsoft says Windows security is a lot better, but . . .
TechBlog —
... November 03, 2008 Microsoft says Windows security is a lot better, but . . . image_3[1] For past few years, Microsoft has mounted a Herculean effort to make its software more secure. Beginning with Windows XP's Service Pack 2, and continuing with changes included in Windows Vista, the company has made security a top priority. The New York Times' John Markoff reports that Microsoft says it has made solid progress on that front. The company will release a study today showing that Windows is now not as easy to exploit as it once was, but that doesn't means Windows users can let ...
Microsoft: Naive Web Surfers Are Their Own Worst Enemies
Webmonkey —
Microsoft is doing its best to keep your PC secure, but you’re screwing up its efforts by naively falling for Tony Soprano’s ever more sophisticated tricks and scams.
That’s the takeaway from Microsoft’s most recent Security Intelligence Report, which tracks threats, viruses, malware and more.
The latest Security Intelligence Report report is self-congratulatory about Vista’s improved security measures over XP, but unfortunately some of the biggest threats are coming from organized crime groups and use phishing techniques that Microsoft claims it can’t patch.
The result is a portrait of web security where the greatest threat, ...
Microsoft reports improved security for Windows amid growing threats
VentureBeat —
... George Stathakopoulos, general manager for Microsoft’s Security Engineering and Communications group, told the New York Times that third party software makers have to improve their security. Users should also remember that they shouldn’t click on unsolicited links. ...
Around the Web 11.3.08: Circuit City closings, Microsoft security, violent video games
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... -- Microsoft's twice-yearly Security Intelligence Report says the it's harder to find vulnerabilities in Windows, so malicious hackers are going after individual applications. NYT ...
Vista is so secure, no one uses it [Software As A Disservice]
Gawker: valleywag —
... Pity the poor Microsoft employees in charge of protecting Windows from third-party apps with security holes. The only code they can fix is Microsoft's. But as John Markoff reports this morning, Microsoft's boldest move to protect Windows Vista users totally backfired: ...
Microsoft: Windows security excellent as long as you don’t run apps
GMSV —
Microsoft released its latest assessment of security threats to PCs running Windows today, concluding that vulnerabilities in its operating systems are now way down on the list of dangers, somewhere below leaky third-party applications and careless users. The company’s semi-annual Security Intelligence Report says that the safeguards built into Windows, particularly Vista, are strong enough now that hackers have turned most of their attention to weaknesses in third-party apps like RealPlayer, Apple’s QuickTime and assorted toolbars and add-ons. The report found that among the top 10 browser-based threats to PCs running Windows XP, about half were aimed at ...
