A setting in Internet Explorer 7 running on Windows Vista can help stave off a particular remote code execution attack, according to Microsoft's security team.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/11/2009
Worldwide shipments of portable PCs surpassed desktop PCs in the first quarter of this year, marking the first time it has occurred, according to an IDC report announced on Thursday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 06/11/2009
AirTight, a provider of Wi-Fi security services, recently scanned 3,632 access points and nearly 550 clients in different financial centers and found that half of them were either open -- unprotected -- or used Wired Equivalent Privacy encryption.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 06/11/2009
Researchers at Finjan Software Inc. have discovered a professional network for buying and selling botnets anywhere in the world.
- By William Jackson
- 06/17/2009
In an effort to give students a portal to real-world volunteer service, the federally operated Corporation for National and Community Service has announced a partnership with Microsoft to establish a virtual helpdesk.
- By Scott Aronowitz
- 06/25/2009
Last month, according to Symantec Corp. subsidiary MessageLabs, the spam tally eclipsed 90 percent of all business e-mail.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 06/23/2009
Zoho Office for Microsoft SharePoint is now available, company officials announced this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 06/24/2009
How to change the browser title for a top-level SharePoint site.
- By Zubair Alexander
- 07/01/2009
A few hints you might not be familiar with can help you spot and fix problems in AD.
Google came through with fixes to its newly introduced e-mail and calendar synchronization application that works with Microsoft Outlook.
Recent denial-of-service attacks against government Web sites in the United States and South Korea appear to have had little impact and are not particularly sophisticated, experts say.
- By William Jackson
- 07/09/2009
Google is developing an operating system designed primarily for lightweight Web-based tasks, the company announced on Tuesday.
- By Joab Jackson
- 07/08/2009
Microsoft continues to investigate a new vulnerability revealed at the top of the week regarding an ActiveX control component in Internet Explorer.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/07/2009
Plus: hackers aren't letting up on DirectShow; Microsoft helps defend against XSS; Apple and Mozilla work on patches.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/07/2009
Why can't a Web browser be more like an operating system? That's a question being investigated with "Gazelle," an ongoing project at Microsoft Research.
Readers grapple with the new browser's learning curve. Plus, thoughts on Microsoft and impartiality, and a YouTube content dilemma.
- By Readers of Redmond magazine
- 07/01/2009
Microsoft is planning to deliver Internet Explorer 8 via Windows Server Update Services, starting on Aug. 25.
Networking giant Cisco Systems on Tuesday showed an interest in the hosted productivity suite space that Microsoft is poised to dominate.
- By Herb Torrens
- 07/01/2009
On the eve of its July security patch release, Redmond issued a security advisory on flaws in the ActiveX control function -- the second such advisory in as many weeks.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/13/2009
Microsoft's clarification of an Internet Security and Acceleration Server patch released this month has left at least one security expert stumped.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/20/2009