This month, Internet Explorer turns 15 years old. Happy birthday, IE!
Microsoft this week provided notice of some upcoming product updates and betas to expect in the coming months.
Google and Verizon today issued a statement on U.S. broadband policy, describing an approach that would permit differentiated services.
Plus: Adobe readies Reader patch; Google engineer may get formal recognition for Windows flaws.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/09/2010
Microsoft today released the fourth "platform preview" of Internet Explorer 9, the company's next-generation Web browser.
Microsoft this week touted global market share gains for Internet Explorer 8 over rival browsers, citing July data from Net Applications.
Microsoft releases fix early due to exploits out in the wild. Plus: Microsoft, Adobe team up on flaw research; IE 8 privacy controls handling debated.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/03/2010
The search giant Google and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency are investing in a company working to track Web-browsing behavior.
The international registries that allocate IP addresses say only about 6 percent of IPv4 addresses remain available, and with an uptick in demand since the beginning of the year, the pool could be exhausted in about six months.
- By William Jackson
- 08/02/2010
After a year of working on security steps to comply with federal government regulations, Google today launched Google Apps for Government.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 07/26/2010
Amped up 'responsible disclosure' gets toned down to 'coordinated vulnerability disclosure.' Plus: Redmond won't pay for bugs, and hacking has its own rewards.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/26/2010
Dell Kace today rolled out a free browser virtualization solution that can help protect against Web threats.
Stuxnet is on the attack. Plus: old-school encryption makes a comeback; sniffing out threats, more.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/19/2010
Faculty members and campus IT staff aren't exactly in agreement on the necessity of some technologies in education.
The majority of Internet security threats come from unpatched vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat/Reader and Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.
Plus: Microsoft cozies up to Russia, China on security; virtualization's security shortcomings.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/12/2010
China renewed Google's licenses as an Internet content provider for that country, according to Google's chief legal officer.
The National Security Agency's (NSA) new program to shield the networks of privately owned utilities and other critical infrastructure companies has caused some people to fear it's a step toward a surveillance state or a government power grab.
- By Amber Corrin
- 07/08/2010
Plus: Developer ignoring DEP and ASLR at peril; what the global 'spamscape' looks like.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/06/2010
IE market share rose past the 60 percent mark after two straight months of decline.