First published on TechNet on May 28, 2009
Ned
here again. If you are at all interested in security, here is a must-read:
Microsoft Security Intelligence Report volume 6 (July - December 2008)
This covers trends and perspectives on:
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Software vulnerabilities (both in Microsoft software and in third-party software)
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Software exploits
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Security and privacy breaches
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Malicious and potentially unwanted software
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E-mail, spam, and phishing
It's not for the skimmer - it's 184 pages of very detailed analysis, and some of them are eye-opening. Such as the finding that industry-wide, roughly 90% of all vulnerabilities in this period were found to be in applications and browsers, not operating systems. What's your company's application patching strategy? What about your application vendors' strategy?
For a quick sum up read, check out the smaller 'Key Findings' download, or stop by the
MS Malware Protection
portal.
- Ned "Anti-Social Engineering" Pyle