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| November 3 Microsoft published the fifth edition of the report Security Intelligence Report (SIR). In it the company talked about how she sees the evolution of the ecosystem threats "Computer Security for the first half of 2008. Recent trends noted in the report - front attack transfer to a higher level of OS kernel to applications, the final victory of trojans, adware and the like in the nomination "The main threat of our time," and, of course, a big jump in food safety most Microsoft. In order to separate fact from marketing, already 4 November our people (Bukasa) at the TechEd conference in Barcelona drew information from Winnie Galotti (Vinny Gullotto, left), general manager of Microsoft Malware Protection Center and leader of the work on SIR. I must say that much of it told the volunteer. And it was interesting. Information for reports Microsoft gets from millions of computers around the world (10 million in Russia alone), which established the utility MSRT, Windows Defender, Live OneCare, and others. And the owners have allowed them to send reports to Redmond. Such a wide scope of audience still includes only users of Windows, but this did not prevent Winnie called SIR though not absolutely true in its conclusions, but "the greatest" record in the industry. Statistics: entire industry over the second half of 2007, the number of detected vulnerabilities decreased by 4% compared to the first - by 19%. But the number of vulnerabilities of high severity (classified CVSS) increased and reached 48% of the total. In addition, more than half of them - it is easily accessible to intruders vulnerability (along with the average degree of difficulty, they were almost 100%). However, Vinny said that you should not assume that these changes trend: it's all just variations around the average long-term level. But a couple of trends, the report noted. This is a serious drop in the number of vulnerabilities in the core operating system as a whole (they became less than 7%, whereas in the second half of 2003 was almost 17%). And reducing the number of vulnerabilities in the products Microsoft: 5 years, their share has fallen three times to the level of 3%. From this, Mr. Galotti concludes that now more than ever, concern about the security responsibility of the user's own shoulders. "Update, update everything you can and as often as possible" - this is his main idea. Microsoft, which had previously been one patch updates all at once the most dangerous and exploited a hole, now do not have direct responsibility for them. For example: an old woman in Windows XP 5 of the 10 most serious vulnerabilities belonged to the most Microsoft, in Vista - is not one. But this, as honestly said Winnie, does not mean that you should immediately put "Vista" - enough to upgrade to the latest Service Pack and the latest versions of software that you use. | |
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