On Monday, a day ahead of its monthly patch release, Microsoft issued a security advisory specific to its database program in Microsoft Office.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/07/2008
IT pros will come back from the holiday weekend to face a possible four patches in Microsoft's July patch rollout, according to an advance announcement.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/03/2008
Microsoft has released all of the source code used in its Sandcastle project, which is now published at the CodePlex open source developer's Web site, according to a blog.
Reported data breaches increased sharply in the first six months of 2008, jumping 69 percent compared to the same period last year, according to a study by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).
- By William Jackson
- 07/02/2008
In the wake of a report suggesting that IE was the least secure Web browser, Redmond on Wednesday touted the security features expected to appear in IE 8.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/02/2008
At the NECC 2008 conference in Texas this week, Microsoft unveiled an addition to its SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK), a suite of tools deigned for helping developers build education solutions.
Microsoft unveiled a new subscription-based consumer offering that combines an office productivity suite with security and hosted services.
Statistically speaking, most data on enterprise networks rarely gets accessed after it is written to network storage, according to researchers from NetApp Inc. and the University of California (UC). Evidently, we are too busy writing new data to go back over old data.
- By Joab Jackson
- 07/02/2008
Just two days after the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council announced the deadline for application security compliance and said it would be issuing guidelines for PIN entry devices, court documents have emerged detailing an elaborate plot to hack Citibank's ATM network architecture.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/02/2008
More than 40 percent of Internet surfers don't use browsers with up-to-date security patches -- and IE users are the biggest culprits.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/01/2008
Microsoft's Brian Hall looks to better integrate the Windows Live online strategy.
Microsoft has a new software volume licensing program in the works for large organizations, according to an announcement issued by the company today.
To be sure, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. aren't merely paying lip service to green IT, since all three vendors have announced ambitious new offerings (or in IBM's case, initiatives) that purport to be green -- or greener -- than conventional products.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 07/01/2008
A new payment card industry (PCI) standard for Web application firewalls and source code goes into effect on Tuesday morning at midnight, the PCI Security Standards Council said on Monday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/30/2008
Microsoft issued an advisory alerting users about a glitch that prevents security updates from being distributed through specific Windows Server Update programs.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/30/2008
Microsoft issued a hotfix for Windows XP Service Pack 3 that it says "could resolve" a registry corruption problem associated with third-party security software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/30/2008
Microsoft updated documentation on protocols used in some of its core applications today.
The Burton Group put the spotlight on Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2007 product on Thursday at its Catalyst Conference 2008 event.
Researchers at VMware have pioneered a novel technique in dynamic analysis, one that separates the running program from the analysis tool, by use of virtual containers.
- By Joab Jackson
- 06/26/2008
Microsoft's first major push into the virtualization space officially kicks off today, as Hyper-V has been released to manufacturing (RTM).