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Windows 8 Bootkit Demoed on Video Windows 8 was supposed to arrive with a secure boot, but it seems that things might not be like that after all, and the first demonstration of how the User Account Control (UAC) in Windows 8 Developer Preview can be defeat... [read more >>] Microsoft Security Essentials 2.1 Gets a New... Microsoft Security Essentials 2.1 now has a new home, under Windows.com, and is no longer hosted under Microsoft.com/security_essentials. The software giant was completely mute on moving MSE, but then again, the company d... [read more >>] Windows 8 Early Launch Anti-Malware from... Windows 8 includes antimalware by default, beyond what the traditional Windows Defender used to offer, increasing the level of protection for users right out of the box, and as early as the boot process. Already packed i... [read more >>] Microsoft Security Essentials 2.1 Updated ... Microsoft Security Essentials 2.1 has been updated in order to resolve a false positive involving Google’s open source browser, Chrome. At the end of September 2011, MSE 2.1 began incorrectly detecting Chrome as ... [read more >>] Microsoft Security Essentials 2.1 Detec... Microsoft Security Essentials, the Redmond company’s free security solution for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP, has evolved with behavior monitoring capabilities designed to let it identify malicious code th... [read more >>] $250,000 Reward for Info on Rustock Authors f... Microsoft is offering a substantial cash incentive, $250,000, for any information that will lead to the identification, arrest and criminal conviction of the cybercriminals behind the Rustock malware and botnet. In March 2... [read more >>] IE9 vs. Chrome 10 vs. Firefox 4 vs. Op... Internet Explorer 9 offers the best protection against socially engineered malware according to the latest tests performed by NSS Labs focused on European users. The results of NSS Labs’s “Web Browser Group Tes... [read more >>] IE9 vs. Chrome vs. Firefox vs. Safari at Pw... Pre-release versions of the latest major iterations of browsers from Microsoft, Google, Mozilla and Apple will come under attack in March at CanSecWest’s 5th annual Pwn2Own competition sponsored by the Zero Day Initi... [read more >>] First Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 Up... Customers running the latest iteration of Microsoft’s free security solution for Windows will get the first update for the antimalware engine powering the product today, January 20th, 2011. Microsoft was initially pl... [read more >>] Microsoft Ups the Ante for Securing Third-P... The security best practices that helped Microsoft secure products including Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Office 2010 will have a consulting services option associated with them starting next month. According to Da... [read more >>]

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