A severe flu outbreak could send millions home to telecommute, possibly disrupting networks vital to the nation's security and financial well-being.
- By William Jackson
- 10/26/2009
Repeated spikes of viruses that are not being detected by major anti-virus engines were observed during the last quarter, apparently the result of hit-and-run tactics by virus writers.
- By William Jackson
- 10/23/2009
The Federal Communications Commission has released the drafts of proposed rules that would codify the principles of network neutrality.
- By William Jackson
- 10/23/2009
Spam-based malware traffic increased dramatically last month, surging by 900 percent between August and September.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 10/20/2009
Plus: Firefox opens up to .NET; gauging Security Essentials' enterprise chances.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/19/2009
Scaring computer users into buying and installing potentially malicious security programs is becoming a big business, according to a study of rogue software by Symantec.
- By William Jackson
- 10/19/2009
Microsoft has devised a way to introduce new PC buyers to its Office productivity suite through a "Starter" edition.
The European Commission on Wednesday took another step closer to resolving its Web browser competition complaint against Microsoft.
Microsoft launched "Windows phone" branding on Tuesday, marking the global rollout of Windows Mobile 6.5-based phones by Microsoft's hardware partners.
Numerous Hotmail users got some unwanted exposure over the past weekend. Plus, SQL injection attacks are making a quiet return.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/06/2009
Government adoption of Vista has been anemic at best. But the prospects seem much better for Windows 7.
- By Brian Robinson
- 10/01/2009
Eight identity management products from seven vendors have earned interoperability certification for the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML 2.0) in this summer's round of interoperability testing.
- By William Jackson
- 09/30/2009
Networking threats are migrating from the network perimeter to the interior and up the networking stack, often making older firewall technologies and policies inadequate.
- By William Jackson
- 09/28/2009
Microsoft on Friday announced that Release Candidate 0 of Forefront Unified Access Gateway is now available for testing.
Google introduced a coding plug-in for Web site developers that instructs Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers to use Google Chrome technologies.
Lawyers for Microsoft and Toronto-based i4i LP concluded oral arguments before the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.
Microsoft last week filed a civil lawsuit against five companies for allegedly spreading malicious online advertising.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/22/2009
Google's acquisition of open source security technology firm reCaptcha could help the search giant's Internet security, except against persistent hackers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/18/2009
Microsoft on Thursday announced that it had commenced an invitation-only public technical preview of Microsoft Office Web Apps.
The next generation of Internet protocols has some security features built into it, but IPv6 is not inherently more secure than the current IPv4 now in use.
- By William Jackson
- 09/17/2009