Technical

[Asyn]

Hotmail offers disposable alias accounts
http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2011/02/03/hotmail-delivers-aliases-to-help-you-manage-and-secure-your-email-account.aspx

[Asyn]

Facebook now SSL-encrypted throughout
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=486790652130

Facebook's crude https workaround
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Facebook-s-crude-https-workaround-1184731.html

[YoKenny]

Safer Internet Day
8 February 2011
http://www.saferinternet.org/web/guest/safer-internet-day

[Asyn]

One in three computer users within the EU had a malware problem in 2010
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/4-07022011-AP/EN/4-07022011-AP-EN.PDF

[Asyn]

Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 SP1 Releases to Manufacturing Today
http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2011/02/09/windows-server-2008-r2-and-windows-7-sp1-releases-to-manufacturing-today.aspx

[Asyn]

Breaking up the Romance between Malware and Autorun
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2011/02/08/breaking-up-the-romance-between-malware-and-autorun.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2011/02/08/deeper-insight-into-the-security-advisory-967940-update.aspx

[osants911]

Google extends 2-step authentication to all users

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Google-extends-2-step-authentication-to-all-users-1188120.html

[YoKenny]

Google extends 2-step authentication to all users

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Google-extends-2-step-authentication-to-all-users-1188120.html

Key comment

This code is either generated by a smartphone app, or Google sends it to a registered number via an SMS text message. A successful log-in will then require two independent factors: users will need to know their password and have access to the previously registered mobile phone.

[Asyn]

Intel, Symantec and Vasco propagate single-use passwords
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Intel-Symantec-and-Vasco-propagate-single-use-passwords-1189071.html
http://www.vasco.com/company/press_room/news_archive/2011/news_vascos_digipass_technology_to_be_embedded_into_intel_identity_protection_technology_ipt.aspx
http://ipt.intel.com/Libraries/Documents/Intel_IdentityProtect_techbrief_v5.sflb.ashx

[Asyn]

Additional Fixes in Microsoft Security Bulletins [Silent Fixes]
http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/02/14/additional-fixes-in-microsoft-security-bulletins.aspx

[Asyn]

Oracle releases database firewall
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/313230?rssid=rss_ocom_pr
White Paper: http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/bwp-oracle-database-firewall-302484.pdf

[Asyn]

Windows Security Survival Guide
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/windows-security-survival-guide.aspx

[Asyn]

Advancing the Idea of Collective Action to Improve Internet Security and Privacy
http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2011/02/15/advancing-the-idea-of-collective-action-to-improve-internet-security-and-privacy.aspx

[Asyn]

IE9 and Privacy: Introducing Tracking Protection
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/12/07/ie9-and-privacy-introducing-tracking-protection-v8.aspx

W3C Team Comment on the "Web Tracking Protection" Submission
http://www.w3.org/Submission/2011/01/Comment/

[Asyn]

Thunderbolt: Introducing a new way to hack Macs
http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2011/02/thunderbolt-introducing-new-way-to-hack.html