Windows 7 no 'magic bullet' for enterprises

Microsoft warned enterprise customers this week that the migration path from XP to Windows 7 won’t be any easier than it is to Vista, and offered recommendations for how companies can move from older versions of Windows to one of its newer client OSes. “Moving from XP to Windows 7 is not a magic bullet,” [...]

M*crosoft Offers $250,000 Bounty For Worm Authors

M*crosoft Offers $250,000 Bounty For Worm Authors

The company has formed a cybersecurity posse with technology companies, academic organizations, and Internet infrastructure firms to dismantle the Conficker/Downandup worm’s infrastructure.

By Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek Feb. 12, 2009

Beset by malicious worms after failing to convince enough server administrators to take its out-of-band Security Bulletin, MS08-067, seriously, [...]

Amplified DDoS Attack Hits Small ISP

************************************************************************* SANS NewsBites            February 6, 2009               Vol. 11, Num. 10 *************************************************************************

–Amplified DDoS Attack Hits Small ISP (February 4 & 5, 2009) A new twist in DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks has come to light after the operator of a pornographic web [...]