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Microsoft to extend security programme
News Microsoft is to extend its Security Response Alliance (MSRA) programme, having admitted that the current programme is "ad hoc". Anyone involved in the MRSA programme will join the new programme, tentatively called the Malware Sample Sharing Program.
[October 24, 2006, 17:45]
Microsoft says security programme is speeding fixes
News For the third programme, Microsoft Vulnerability Research (MSVR), Microsoft researchers work to find holes in third-party software. One year after launching three security programmes designed to improve security industry-wide, Microsoft is finding...
[July 28, 2009, 9:41]
Redmond hails lifecycle security programme
News The programme — known as the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) — is one of the results of a 2002 company-wide memorandum from Microsoft chairman Bill Gates outlining an increased focus on security, and followed on from a series of serious...
[September 2, 2005, 16:05]
Microsoft to extend security programme
Talkback What contract would MRSA members need to sign?
[October 24, 2006, 22:55]
Socitm pushes IT security programme
News The Society of Information Technology Management has developed a framework for passing on IT security skills. This follows the materials' validation at a meeting for the consortium in Greece in early June.iScan is a certification scheme for...
[July 2, 2007, 17:19]
Scheme aims to reduce threat for net-linked devices
News ICSA Labs, which sets standards for commercial security products, plans on Monday to announce a new programme for helping corporations protect themselves from attacks and snooping via internet-connected devices such as printers, copiers, ATMs and...
[September 21, 2009, 15:56]
Governments get access to Office source code
News Microsoft is set to add Office to its programme that allows governments to view source code for key applications. The programme gives government agencies secure access to source code for key Microsoft programs -- initially, the current versions of...
[September 20, 2004, 8:20]
Hacking fears hit e-voting plans
News The Irish government intends to push on with its e-voting programme despite criticism over costs and security from a parliamentary committee. But a spokesperson for the Department of the Environment, which is responsible for e-voting, said the...
[February 7, 2005, 15:50]
Singapore unveils cybersecurity Masterplan
News Dubbed the Infocomm Security Masterplan, the programme will focus on developing the manpower capabilities to manage the increasing number of online threats and establishing an early-warning system for cyberattacks.
[February 23, 2005, 11:20]
Microsoft settles over Passport privacy
News As part of the settlement, Microsoft agreed to implement a comprehensive information security programme for Passport and similar services, the Federal Trade Commission announced Thursday. It requires the software maker to operate and maintain a...
[August 8, 2002, 14:31]
Homeland security calls for whistleblowers
News Called the Protected Critical Infrastructure Information (PCII) Programme, the initiative allows companies to report security vulnerabilities in their products that may affect the nation's security without revealing the flaws to the wider public...
[February 23, 2004, 8:50]
Microsoft announces security partnerships
News Networking vendors Cisco Systems and Enterasys Networks have already announced partnership programmes with security vendors, and now software giant Microsoft has gotten into the game with its own partnership programme, intended to eventually link...
[July 14, 2004, 14:50]
Schneier: 'Zero benefit' from US border biometrics
News Security expert and BT chief security-technology officer Bruce Schneier has attacked the US-Visit border-biometrics programme, saying it has had "zero benefit" in terms of security. However, Robert Jamison, undersecretary at the US Department of...
[November 4, 2008, 12:02]
EU clashes with Microsoft over Vista features
Talkback That some might wish to use a different security programme is perfectly acceptable and, to this effect, the security programmes incorporated into Vista MUST be able to be completely switched off. Every new computer I have bought has had a non...
[September 20, 2006, 20:48]
DTI funds research into network security
News The programme, which is part of its Network Security Innovation Platform, reflects the fact that human error is by the far the biggest risk to network security, the DTI said on 18 June. Four projects will receive funding under the programme.
[June 18, 2007, 12:22]
Aussie govt to see Windows source code
News The agreement falls within Microsoft's global Government Security Programme, an initiative announced earlier this year to address government concerns about the transparency and security of the operating system.
[August 14, 2003, 10:20]
NHS addresses Euro data-sharing concerns
News However, following recent criticism of the proposed scheme by security experts, officials administering the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) — the massive health service computerisation project — have claimed the project would ensure privacy and...
[February 7, 2007, 14:42]
Back to school for spam victims
News The fraudsters are offering a free two-week Web learning programme, purporting to be held by financial services company Credit Suisse, in which students can graduate in basic finance skills. According to antivirus company Sophos, the programme...
[November 1, 2004, 13:24]
Key Internet server moved amid security concerns
News But VeriSign, which runs two of the Net's 13 domain name service (DNS) root servers, said Thursday that the timing of the move was coincidental and that the measure was part of a general programme to reduce security risks.
[November 11, 2002, 7:39]
Cisco initiative tackles mobile working security threat
News The initiative, dubbed the Network Admission Control programme, would allow companies to set their network devices to refuse connections from any mobile PCs or devices that fail to meet corporate security policies, such as not having the latest...
[November 19, 2003, 11:50]
