Firefox 3 users, who also have jacked up the security settings on Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 to their most paranoid level, may find it trickier to download files with Firefox due to key changes recently made by Mozilla . In a Security Fix Live chat last Friday , a reader complained he or she...

Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint manages and integrates multiple scan engines from industry-leading vendors and provides content controls to help protect your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 collaboration environments from documents that contain...

Maintaining harmony between security and privacy concerns is a difficult balancing act for many companies, and the continued convergence of the two disciplines is creating a whole new set of challenges. In a Tuesday keynote speech at RSA 2008, Craig Mundie, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT )'s chief research...

Hi, Michael here. I'm always asked "How can you claim the SDL is working when Microsoft still issues security updates?" So I want to make sure people understand the goals of the SDL and perhaps more importantly, the non-goals. There are three major security-related disciplines here at Microsoft...

The Microsoft Security Assessment Tool 3.5 is the revised version of the original Microsoft Security Risk Self-Assessment Tool (MSRSAT), released in 2004 and the Microsoft Security Assessment Tool 2.0 released in 2006. Security issues have evolved since 2004 so additional questions and answers were needed...