Microsoft disputed claims by various third-parties indicating that they were able to break the encryption technology build into the high-end and enterprise editions of Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Paul Cooke, Microsoft director, Windows Client Enterprise Security, stresses that one tool advertised to break BitLocker Drive Encryption does anything but actually break the technology Microsoft has built into the Ultimate and Enterprise SKUs of Windows 7 and Vista. According to Cooke, the tool in question is designed to recover encryption keys for hard drives. However, it is in the design that lies its fault, as the utility is simply useless in the context in which the physical image of memory is inaccessible. And in order to make the said physical memory image inaccessible, all that customers need to do is turn off their computers. “The product, like others used legitimately for data recovery and digital forensics analysis, requires ‘a physical memory image file of the target computer’ to extract the encryption keys for a BitLocker disk. Our discussions of Windows BitLocker have always been to communicate that it is intended to help protect data at rest (e.g. when the machine is powered off). If a forensics analyst or thief/adversary has physical access to a running system, it may be possible... (read more)
One of the aspects of Microsoft that should come as no surprise is that the company plans ahead not just next year’s product launches, but decades in advance, in terms of the evolution of its technology. Not limited to its own software, this strategy is an integral part of how the company is tackling problems faced by education systems world... (
Firefox 4.0, the next major release of Mozilla’s open source browser, will bring to the table a major overhaul of its graphical user interface, one that would put the UI in line the Windows 7 Ribbon/Fluent style. Mozilla has already made public details on the revamping of the Firefox User interface for version 4.0, and various concepts and sketches ha... (
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, Microsoft is helping Windows 7 customers celebrate love right on their desktops. In this regard, the Redmond company has made available for download a new desktop theme designed to integrate seamlessly into the desktop of their Windows 7-power computers. The Lacy Hearts is, as the software giant has put i... (
The latest development milestone of Office 2010 has made it into the wild, even though Microsoft never intended to have the general public get their hands on the release. Earlier this week, the Redmond company revealed that the next iteration of the Office System reached a key milestone in the evolution to RTM, namely the Rel... (
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