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Posted Thursday, December 11, 2008 7:23 PM by windowsvistasecurity
Good day, Paul Cooke here. The Windows Vista Security blog has been a great avenue for us to talk with you about what has made Windows Vista the most secure client operating system Microsoft has ever delivered. However, hindsight is always 20/20 and it Read More...
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Microsoft SIRv5 Released

Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 10:44 AM by windowsvistasecurity
Good day, Paul Cooke here. The Microsoft Malware Protection Center has published volume five of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report. If you have not taken a look at this report before, I urge you to go download it from http://www.microsoft.com/sir Read More...
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TechED - EMEA

Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 10:38 AM by windowsvistasecurity
Good day, Paul Cooke here. I am in Barcelona getting set up for some sessions at TechEd-EMEA in Barcelona. The weather was a bit dicey for parts of yesterday but today is clear and beautiful. I've got two full sessions and a bit part in a third where Read More...
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Windows Vista Security Stories @ TechEd - Recap

Posted Friday, July 18, 2008 6:00 PM by windowsvistasecurity
Good day! Paul Cooke, Director of Enterprise Security, here. Orlando entertained close to 9,500 customers, partners, and staff at the first Microsoft Tech·Ed for IT Professionals. For four days, IT Professionals from around the world experienced in-depth Read More...
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Windows Vista and Malware

Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 9:41 PM by windowsvistasecurity
Hi, Austin Wilson here. Recently there have been some questions raised about the susceptibility of Windows Vista to malware – specifically, that it’s more susceptible to malware than Windows 2000. I’d like to show why we reject that claim. We study the Read More...
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Disk encryption: Balancing security, usability and risk assessment

Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 9:12 PM by windowsvistasecurity
Hi: Russ Humphries here. There’s been a lot of attention this week paid to memory attacks against disk encryption technologies and I wanted to provide some commentary and thoughts. The focus of these conversations is centering on investigating the contents Read More...
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Windows Vista Security One Year Later

Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:53 PM by windowsvistasecurity
Hi, Austin Wilson here. Now that Windows Vista has been available to business customers for more than a year, it’s a good time to go back and look at how it’s holding up from a security perspective. I think that it’s fair to say that Windows Vista is Read More...
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Extended Validation SSL Update

Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2007 10:51 PM by windowsvistasecurity
I am Craig Spiezle, Director of Online Security and Safety for Microsoft Internet Explorer. While I am new to this role, I’ve been at Microsoft for over 10 years, and very involved on usability and online safety, helping users realize their potential, Read More...
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(Driver Signing <> Kernel Patch Protection) AND (KPP <> Driver Signing)

Posted Thursday, August 16, 2007 1:04 AM by windowsvistasecurity
So I am reading a lot of stories that seem to have confused, or incorrectly aligned, Windows Vista driver signing and Kernel Patch Protection technologies. Whilst driver signing and KPP are complimentary, they are not conjoined. Driver signing provides Read More...
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FAQ: Why can’t I bypass the UAC prompt?

Posted Thursday, August 09, 2007 8:44 PM by User Account Control Team
Why Vista is better off without setuid or sudo. Read More...
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x64 Driver Signing Update

Posted Friday, August 03, 2007 2:15 AM by windowsvistasecurity
Hi, it’s Scott Field, Windows Security Architect, again. Microsoft recently became aware of a third party kernel mode driver named “Atsiv” which provides a deliberate means of loading code that conflicts with the Kernel Mode Code Signing (KMCS) policy Read More...
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Windows Smartcard Framework Certification Program Goes Live

Posted Sunday, July 01, 2007 6:02 PM by windowsvistasecurity
Hi – everyone! I’m David Cross the Director of Program Management for Windows Security. It has been a while since I last posted to this blog during the Windows Vista beta cycle on UAC. I thought a new posting from myself was long overdue and I have some Read More...
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Some questions to ask yourself when assessing reported security breaches in Windows Vista

Posted Thursday, June 28, 2007 4:38 PM by windowsvistasecurity
Most anyone who has been in the security industry for a while is familiar with the term ‘security theater’. It’s a term used for security that is about show, rather than substance. Since I became the Product Manager for Windows Vista security I have noted Read More...
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Windows Vista Security at 180 Days

Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2007 10:45 PM by windowsvistasecurity
Just as he did at the 90-day mark , Jeff Jones, a Microsoft Director from the Trustworthy Computing group and frequent blogger on security topics, has done a comparison of vulnerabilities discovered in Windows Vista versus other operating systems in their Read More...
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PKI Enhancements in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008

Posted Friday, June 01, 2007 4:48 PM by windowsvistasecurity
I’m Avi Ben-Menahem, the lead program manager for the PKI and smart card technologies in Windows Security. The PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) team in Microsoft is responsible for the different technologies related to digital certificates, these technologies Read More...
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