The week of Forefront !

This week of December Microsoft has released 2 of Forefront Products to RTM

1--RTM: Microsoft Forefront Protection Server Management Console (FPSMC) 2010

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2-RTM : Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010

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Microsoft vs. McAfee: How free antivirus outperformed paid

Nice Article to Read

How effective is free antivirus software?

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Cyber criminals cash in on Korea clashes!!!!!!

Cyber criminals are already attempting to cash in on yesterday's clashes between North and South Korea, according to Trend Micro.

The security company reports that within several hours of the cross-border incident, search results related to the subject of the clash, had been poisoned by scammers

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Microsoft just doesn’t get it…. Security is about diversity

What do you think here ? are you with this report or you have another ideas ?
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Microsoft recently started installing its Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) free antivirus product via the Operating System update mechanism to computers which don’t already have an antivirus installed. Basically Microsoft is saying they are worried about the security of its users and they need to make sure they are protected. Perhaps Microsoft is trying to position itself as a provider of secure Operating Systems given the market perception of Linux, Apple and potentially Google as having more secure alternatives to Windows OS, but that’s a different story.

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Cyber crime: The rats that gain access by the click of a mouse

When Iran took the unusual step of announcing that its Bushehr nuclear power plant had been infected by a piece of malicious software,

Concern had been growing for months over the potential impact of Stuxnet, a new highly sophisticated computer worm that had been targeting the programs at the heart of core industrial operating systems around the world. What particularly worried the security community was that Stuxnet was the first example of a computer program designed to cause serious damage to the physical world.

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Nearly Two-Thirds Of Companies Have Been Breached In The Past Year, Study Says

IT security becoming a higher priority in many organizations, CompTIA reports

Sixty-three percent of U.S. organizations have experienced at least one security incident or breach during the past year, according to a new study released today.

Almost half of the breached organizations classified the situation as "serious" -- meaning there was a financial threat, potential damage to the organization's reputation, or other business-critical problem, according to the Computing Technology Industry Association's (CompTIA's) 8th Annual Global Security Trends Study.

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Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 Release Candidate

Below the link for Microsoft Endpoint Protection 2010 Release Candidate ,

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ff182914.aspx

Iran confirms Stuxnet worm hit nuclear plant

Iranian sources appear to have confirmed that the Stuxnet worm has infected PCs at the country's Bushehr nuclear power facility, but maintain that it has not disrupted the plant's operations. First discovered in July, the sophisticated Stuxnet threat has been designed to disrupt the supervisory control and data acquisition systems that control manufacturing processes in factories and plants around the world.

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Attacks on power systems: Hackers, malware

Criminal Hackers and Malware vs Power Systems

Criminal hackers take advantage of both technical vulnerabilities[1] and human failings[2] to penetrate insecure systems.

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Dell warns of malware on server motherboards

Dell is apparently warning customers that "a small number" of its PowerEdge R410 server motherboards may contain malicious software.

"The potential issue involves a small number of PowerEdge server motherboards sent out through service dispatches that may contain malware," according to post on a Dell support forum. "This malware code has been detected on the embedded server management firmware."

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Apple Ranks First In Vulnerabilities

Ten technology vendors account for 38% of all vulnerabilities disclosed over the past five years, a percentage that has remained relatively stable during this period.

Yet, the number of vulnerabilities affecting PC users has been rising rapidly, thanks largely to increasingly vulnerable third-party applications.

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Reports of 'App Store Hacked' Greatly Exaggerated

Earlier today a report on TheNextWeb claimed that the App Store had been hacked and that a rogue developer had gamed the system by artificially driving sales to their eBooks. The rise in ranks were noted by competing developers who thought the rise strange given that the books all represented poorly coded Vietnamese-based books.

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Securing 4G smartphones

Because smartphones have typically had both limited storage and connection speeds, they traditionally haven't been as vulnerable to some of the security threats that have long plagued PCs.

But with the advent of super-powered smartphones and 4G mobile networks, this might be changing. Today's high-end smartphones have storage capacities in the 32GB range and processing speeds that go 1GHz or higher. And once 4G technologies such as WiMAX and LTE become more widely available, smartphones will have average connection speeds of 3Gbps or higher, giving them speeds that approach the average U.S. wireline broadband speed.

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New Microsoft Forefront Software Runs Five Antivirus Vendors' Engines

Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint supports AV from Authentium, Kaspersky Lab, Norman, and VirusBuster as well as Microsoft

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Linux machines linked to spam

symantec Studay shows Linux machines linked to spam
Although Linux holds only a small market share, Linux computers appear to send a disproportionate amount of spam compared to other operating systems, according to new research from Symantec's MessageLabs messaging security division. Symantec looked at spam from November 2009 through March and broke down what kind of operating system is on the computer that sent the spam.

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Flawed McAfee update paralyzes corporate PCs

A flawed McAfee antivirus update sent enterprise administrators scrambling today as the new signatures quarantined a crucial Windows system file, crippling an unknown number of Windows XP computers, according to messages on the company's support forum.

The forum has since gone offline.

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New AV- Test Resulut

Microsoft Forefront Still beating the top Av Vendors
February 2009 saw the introduction of RAP testing to VB's VB100 comparative reviews, measuring products' reactive and proactive detection abilities against the most recent malware that has emerged around the world.

Y2K all over again in 2010?

A decade after the Y2K crisis, date changes still pose technology problems, making some security software upgrades difficult and locking millions of bank ATM users out of their accounts. Chips used in bank cards to identify account numbers could not read the year 2010 properly, making it impossible for ATMs and point of sale machines in Germany to read debit cards of 30 million people since New Year's Day, according to published reports. The workaround is to reprogram the machines so the chips don't have to deal with the number

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