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Microsoft Research: Spammers Act Just Like HIV Virus In Avoiding Filters
Security researchers often use language and metaphors from the natural world to describe problems in the virtual world. Thus, our use of the terms “virus,” and “worm.” Now it turns out that the links may not be so arbitrary, after Microsoft researchers discovered that tools they developed to dete...
Microsoft Research Proposes E-Voting Attack Mitigation
Microsoft Research has proposed a mitigation for a known potential attack against verifiable electronic voting machines that could help prevent insiders from being able to alter votes after the fact. The countermeasure to the “trash attack” involves adding a cryptographic hash to the receipts tha...
Microsoft Research: Cybercrime Surveys are Useless
Barely a week goes by that woeful statistics on the proliferation of cyber crime don’t make headlines in the trade and mainstream press. But a new study by Microsoft Research finds that many of those surveys are so rife with catastrophic statistical errors as to make their conclusions almost...
Researchers Graph Social Networks to spot Spammers
Spammers, it turns out, aren’t like everyone else: they have fewer friends. That, according to new research by Microsoft scientists who have developed a new method of distinguishing attacker-created spam email accounts from legitimate ones. The new finding, from researchers Yinglian Xie and Fang ...
Microsoft Research Develops Zozzle JavaScript Malware Detection Tool
As browser-based exploits and specifically JavaScript malware have shouldered their way to the top of the list of threats, browser vendors have been scrambling to find effective defenses to protect users. Few have been forthcoming, but Microsoft Research has developed a new tool called Zozzle tha...
Asegurando Facebook
Esta presentación fue creada por Jimmy Kuo, un investigador veterano anti-malware que ahora trabaja en el equipo de Investigación y Respuesta de Seguridad Microsoft. Dicha presentación cubre algunos consejos básicos para usar Facebook de manera segura y privada...
Microsoft Research AutoCollage
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