Researchers at M86 Security said this week that the volume of spam containing malware spiked in August.
- By William Jackson
- 08/18/2011
Amazon Web Services apologized and issued a detailed post-mortem explaining the cause of a massive service outage that crippled its Dublin data center last week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/18/2011
Microsoft's Windows 8 planning, coding and testing efforts comprise about 35 teams, with each team responsible for a single feature area of the operating system.
Amazon announced yesterday its AWS (Amazon Web Services ) GovCloud, which will offer U.S. federal departments a secure cloud solution.
Several Microsoft cloud services are experiencing major outages today including Office 365, CRM Online and SkyDrive.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/17/2011
For the first time since security firm Kaspersky started tracking malware threats, Microsoft products are off the company's top-10 list of vulnerability concerns, according to its recent quarterly report.
Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) customers anticipating a move to Office 365 may need to review Microsoft's latest communications.
Microsoft has opened a space for public dialog about Windows 8, its next client operating system, which is currently under development.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 browser once again topped the list of browsers providing the greatest protection against socially engineered threats, according to NSS Lab
In the biggest acquisition in history, Google announced today that it will acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for a cash total of $12.5 billion.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/15/2011
While the overall smartphone market saw gains in the second quarter of 2011, Microsoft's mobile offering declined in market share.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/14/2011
Open source code apparently isn't altogether open, and that fact is playing out in a legal dispute over Android.
Microsoft released a report this month updating the progress of the Microsoft Security Response Center in ensuring software security.
A top executive at Motorola suggested on Tuesday that the company is open to a deal with Microsoft on Windows.
According to a recent Gartner projection, Windows 7 will be on 42 percent of all PCs at the beginning of 2012.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/10/2011
The August patch is a bulky one as Microsoft released 13 fixes today.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/09/2011
A Windows-based security system used by the government is under fire by the GAO for its unreliability.
- By William Jackson
- 08/09/2011
Lighting seemed to strike twice on Sunday, hitting apparently separate cloud datacenters in Dublin, Ireland, run by Amazon and Microsoft.
Microsoft today announced an update to SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse with other related news, including planned Hadoop support.
To develop secure mobile apps, an investment in time to apply the correct testing and auditing techniques is worth the effort.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 08/08/2011