New report shows some real progress in killing Zbot. Plus: Adobe hides PDFs in the sandbox; U.S. talks with Aussies on security.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/18/2010
Fake Microsoft Security Essentials alert snags some users. Plus: social network add-on -- for hackers; new SLA troubleshooting tool.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/26/2010
Microsoft added to its search advertising partnership deal with Yahoo by consolidating the ad platform used by Web advertisers in U.S. and Canadian markets.
Microsoft kicked off its 2010 Professional Developers Conference (PDC) today by offering developers worldwide an update on its emerging cloud computing, Windows Phone and Internet Explorer 9 development platforms.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/28/2010
Microsoft released IE 9 Platform Preview 6, the latest test version of its upcoming Internet Explorer 9, yesterday.
DLL fix might still leave Windows users vulnerable. Plus: Bing encryption being considered; Google gets serious about mobile security.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/02/2010
Google is suing the Interior Department for allegedly excluding Google's products in a request for quotation the agency issued on Aug. 30.
- By Michael Hardy
- 11/02/2010
After two straight gargantuan rollouts, IT pros are getting a break with November's patch load.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/04/2010
A line of pixels drawn by Google Maps between the border of Nicaragua and Costa Rica is being used as an excuse in an old territorial dispute.
Plus: IE 8 still safer than IE 6, 7; Zeus 2.0 escaping MSRT detection.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/09/2010
Microsoft's November security update arrived today, and it's something less than a Thanksgiving meal.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/09/2010
Microsoft on Monday announced that it had rolled out two "new" security baselines for use with its Security Compliance Management tool, plus new setting packs for Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8.
Microsoft today released the seventh "platform preview" of Internet Explorer 9.
The General Services Administration is moving e-mail and collaboration tools to the cloud, becoming the first federal agency to move e-mail to a cloud-based system agencywide, GSA officials said yesterday.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 12/02/2010
Plus: An eighth of malware attacks come from USB devices, scareware instances are growing.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/07/2010
Google made three announcements today concerning its consumer Web efforts.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced an upcoming privacy feature for its Internet Explorer 9 Web browser.
Cisco has taken two significant steps in space-based communications, with the first-ever upgrade of an IP router aboard a commercial satellite while in orbit, and the first voice over IP call made from a satellite that did not require any ground-based infrastructure to route the call.
- By Dan Rowinski
- 12/06/2010
One of the cables published by WikiLeaks late last month cites U.S. diplomatic concerns over a Chinese software security company with access to Windows source code.
Amazon Web Services today launched the beta of a programmable and purportedly scalable hosted Domain Name System service aimed at letting users of its cloud services create, modify and delete DNS zone files.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/06/2010