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New Type of Cloud Computing Vulnerability?
27 October 09 07:33 PM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   

The MIT Technology Review magazine recently reported that next month Eran Tromer, a postdoctoral reseacher at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, will present research suggesting that Amazon’s EC 2, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud Read More...

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Speed up Windows 7 boot times with… Microsoft Security Essentials?
17 October 09 02:20 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

If you’re planning to re-pave your machine and add Windows 7 sometime in the next few weeks, don’t forget to download Microsoft Security Essentials (aka, MSE).  The free anti-virus software package has gotten good reviews, and also got off to a very Read More...

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More on the Security X-Factor: Vista beating Linux, XP, and Mac
15 July 07 07:52 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Technorati Tags: Security , threat modeling NOTE: this post is essentially a comment to this post here .  By the time I was finished, the comment was so long I figured I'd just make it a post in it's own right.  :-)  -John Wow! Well, I Read More...

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The security X-Factor: Vista security beating linux, XP, and Mac
14 July 07 02:01 AM | john.mullinax | 5 Comments   

Technorati Tags: security , threat modeling , vista , linux , mac What is the X-Factor?  That's the the multiple that tells you how many MORE security vulernerabilites researchers found in other OSes than in Windows Vista, during each OS's first Read More...

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Windows the MOST secure OS .... Look out applications! (...And Introducing Design Fors!)
06 April 07 02:15 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

My colleague, Beth Patton, makes a very interesting point about the impact of improving OS security. For the second half of 2006, Symantec rated Microsoft as having less vulnerabilities and a faster patch time than the other most commonly used operating Read More...

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