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Greetings from Tokyo...

This year at the PacSec conference, I will present a Microsoft view of the threat landscape during the first six months in 2009. It will be based on telemetry data published in the latest Security Intelligence Report (SIR) published on Nov 2nd, 2009.

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An in-depth perspective of software vulnerabilities, malicious code threats and potentially unwanted software, focusing on trends observed during the first or second half of each year.

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