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MS Security Intelligence Report - 2H09
- http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/60529
04/26/10 - "Conficker was far and away the most prevalent threat found on Windows machines in the second half of 2009 in the enterprise, Microsoft says. The company's security tools cleaned the Conficker worm from [25%] of enterprise Windows machines. That was one of the findings in Microsoft's semi-annual security report card, the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report*, published on Monday… both Conficker and Autorun were found to be the worms of choice for hackers that gained the ability of downloading malware onto a machine by gaining access through another hole… Scareware, also known as rogue security software, is a fake security warning that pretends to detect a threat and asks the user to install it and then proceeds to try to talk the user into paying for registration or other services. Microsoft says its security products cleaned scareware from 7.8 million computers in 2H09, up from 5.3 million computers in 1H09 — an increase of 46.5 percent… vulnerabilities against Microsoft continue to be a growing hacker favorite. Microsoft released 47 security bulletins in second half of 2009 that addressed 104 individual vulnerabilities compared to 27 in the first half that fixed about 84 holes. Of these nearly 81% were reported to Microsoft first adhering to its "responsible disclosure practices" compared to 79.5 in the first half. In straight numbers, this still leaves more holes discovered out in the wild before Microsoft can fix them. Hackers find more success in attacking applications than they do the operating systems or the browsers. Of those browser-based exploits, holes in Adobe reader account for the lion's share, according to Microsoft. Ironically, the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report, Volume 8, is available as a PDF…"
* http://www.microsoft.com/security/about/sir.aspx
"… (SIR v8) covers July 2009 through December 2009…"
MS Security Intelligence Report - 2H09
- http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/60529
04/26/10 - "Conficker was far and away the most prevalent threat found on Windows machines in the second half of 2009 in the enterprise, Microsoft says. The company's security tools cleaned the Conficker worm from [25%] of enterprise Windows machines. That was one of the findings in Microsoft's semi-annual security report card, the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report*, published on Monday… both Conficker and Autorun were found to be the worms of choice for hackers that gained the ability of downloading malware onto a machine by gaining access through another hole… Scareware, also known as rogue security software, is a fake security warning that pretends to detect a threat and asks the user to install it and then proceeds to try to talk the user into paying for registration or other services. Microsoft says its security products cleaned scareware from 7.8 million computers in 2H09, up from 5.3 million computers in 1H09 — an increase of 46.5 percent… vulnerabilities against Microsoft continue to be a growing hacker favorite. Microsoft released 47 security bulletins in second half of 2009 that addressed 104 individual vulnerabilities compared to 27 in the first half that fixed about 84 holes. Of these nearly 81% were reported to Microsoft first adhering to its "responsible disclosure practices" compared to 79.5 in the first half. In straight numbers, this still leaves more holes discovered out in the wild before Microsoft can fix them. Hackers find more success in attacking applications than they do the operating systems or the browsers. Of those browser-based exploits, holes in Adobe reader account for the lion's share, according to Microsoft. Ironically, the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report, Volume 8, is available as a PDF…"
* http://www.microsoft.com/security/about/sir.aspx
"… (SIR v8) covers July 2009 through December 2009…"