Scott Charney
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Microsoft slams Google on privacy
News Google has not invested enough to build privacy and is 10 years behind Microsoft in this area, says Redmond's chief privacy strategist.
Tags: Security, Privacy, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Internet Search Advertising, Privacy, Video, Scott Charney, software, Redmond
Panel paints grim picture of cybercrime battle
News Consumers, government and technology companies all need to pitch in to fight cybercrime, experts on a security panel agree.
Tags: Policy and management
Computer worm slows global Net traffic
News A rapidly spreading computer worm infests networks and bogs down Internet traffic across the globe.
Microsoft admits Vista UAC prompts 'need work'
News Scott Charney, head of the company's Trustworthy Computing division, says user feedback has indicated that the prompts are not intuitive.
Tags: Windows Vista, Authentication and encryption, Microsoft Corp., Security, Prompt, AusCERT, User Account Control, Microsoft Windows Vista, Scott Charney, software company
Microsoft proposes age-limited digital playgrounds
News Company envisions offline identity authenticators creating digital credentials that could prove you are who you say you are on the Internet as part of its Trustworthy Computing initiative.
Tags: Privacy, Security, Microsoft Corp., Children, Identity, Open Source, Scott Charney, Digital Identity, RSA Security Inc., Environment
Microsoft's privacy officer resigns
News Microsoft announced last Friday that its corporate privacy officer, Richard Purcell, has resigned and that the company will be moving security strategist Scott Charney to head the day-to-day management of its Trustworthy Computing initiative.
Microsoft launches Blue Hat security conference
News Dan Kaminsky and others will make presentations to Microsoft employees at the company's eighth Blue Hat security conference.
Tags: Security, Microsoft Corp., Conference, CSS, software company, penetration testing, software, DNS, Redmond, researcher
Microsoft renews security vows
News Microsoft has opened up its drive to improve software security with a redesigned software patch management system and a partnership with VeriSign to authenticate Web services.
Microsoft's answer to phishing: Two IDs
News Banks aren't moving fast enough on requiring online customers to provide two forms of ID, the company says.
Tags: Spam and phishing
Bad apps crash Windows: Microsoft
News Microsoft has laid the blame for half of all Windows crashes on third-party code.
eBay: Let's wait and see on tighter security
News The auction giant has ruled out two-factor authentication for the time being, says an eBay exec.
Tags: Web sites
Microsoft puts key security under Windows umbrella
News Reorg reverberations continue as Trustworthy Computing, other efforts shift to Windows Core OS division.
Tags: Security, Microsoft Windows, Organizational structure
Security a work in progress for Microsoft
News Two years after Chairman Bill Gates called on Microsoft to redouble its efforts to secure its software, the company is beginning to make progress, according to customers--but much work remains.
Tags: Security, Microsoft Windows
Windows Server 2003 gets first patch
News Microsoft says the flaw's details are a positive sign for "Trustworthy Computing," despite the embarrassment of releasing a patch barely two months after the OS launch.
One year on, is Microsoft "Trustworthy"?
News A year after Bill Gates called for more "trustworthy" products, has the company responded?
