Researchers: Microsoft's CAPTCHAs Easy to Solve
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| Microsoft's system to thwart automatic registrations of e-mail accounts leads
| to "a false sense of security," according to two researchers who have
| developed a low-cost way to break the security mechanism.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144585/researchers_microsofts_captchas_easy_to_solve.html
Urgency Raised For Recent Microsoft Vulnerability
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| In last Tuesday's Microsoft patch roundup we noted that one of the most
| serious bugs was MS08-021, which has two buffer overflows in GDI, the
| graphical subsystem for Windows.
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http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2008/04/urgency_raised_for_recent_micr.php
Memo to Microsoft: Annoyance is not a security plan
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| Even if UAC does make people more secure, though, it's not the real answer to
| security woes. Microsoft needs to lock down the operating system better, not
| hope that by annoying users, the company will force software makers to write
| more secure code
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/memo_to_microsoft_annoyance_is_not_a_security_plan
Microsoft Exec Rages Against Vista Upgrade 'Hack'
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| In a scathing blog post last week, Eric Ligman, Microsoft's senior manager of
| community engagement for small business in the U.S., took aim at reports that
| Microsoft is giving users the option of buying the Vista SP1 upgrade edition
| and installing it on any PC, which allows them to avoid paying more than $100
| for the more expensive 'full' edition of Vista.
|
| In an article that appeared earlier this month in the Windows Secrets
| newsletter, Associate Editor Scott Dunn suggested that Microsoft's failure to
| close this loophole in Vista SP1 suggests that the vendor approved the back
| door in order to make Vista more appealing to sophisticated buyers.
|
| [...]
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| "The prohibition against moving it to another computer is counter-intuitive
| for most people, and it smacks of revenue maximization rather than reasonable
| restriction," DeGroot said.
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http://www.crn.com/software/207200610
Last week:
Schneier suspicious of Microsoft's security vision
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| Speaking at the RSA conference in San Francisco this week, a senior Microsoft
| executive sang the praises of the software giant's emerging vision
| for 'trust' based security, prompting one industry figurehead to label the
| strategy as "anti-competitive".
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http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Schneier-suspicious-of-Microsoft-s-security-vision-/0,339028227,339288056,00.htm
Recent:
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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