Plus: researcher blames Hotmail password thefts on botnets, not phishing; Adobe joins Tuesday patch brigade.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/13/2009
October has proved to be the month of record, landing one whopper of a Patch Tuesday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/13/2009
Information security is always a concern in any outsourcing arrangement, but just how much of a concern is still the subject of debate.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 10/13/2009
IT pros can expect a mammoth patch release for the month of October on Tuesday if Microsoft's advance notification is any indication.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/08/2009
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
Microsoft's security team didn't flinch this week, even as a proof-of-concept exploit for Windows Server Message Block Version 2 (SMBv2) was published on Sunday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/02/2009
The Department of Homeland Security will hire up to 1,000 additional people to work in cybersecurity jobs over the next three years.
Redmond has talked a lot about performance, usability and manageability, but has said less about security. This isn't surprising.
- By Joern Wettern
- 10/01/2009
A trial judge on Tuesday voided a $388 million jury award to Uniloc in its long-running intellectual property dispute with Microsoft.
Microsoft Security Essentials, Redmond's free consumer security software for PCs, will be available for download by the general public on Tuesday.
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.
If the latest semiannual round of security advisories from Cisco are any indication, DoS attacks continue to be a serious -- and largely unsolvable -- problem for networks.
- By Joab Jackson
- 09/25/2009
Google introduced a coding plug-in for Web site developers that instructs Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers to use Google Chrome technologies.
Microsoft last week filed a civil lawsuit against five companies for allegedly spreading malicious online advertising.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/22/2009
Plus: an SMB flaw stopgap measure; Security Essentials on the release horizon.
- 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
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
Google has announced that it will soon offer a set of cloud services to government through the Apps.gov cloud computing storefront.
- By Joab Jackson
- 09/16/2009
Hackers are exploiting unpatched applications on Web servers and client computers to infect entire networks, according to report released Tuesday.
- By William Jackson
- 09/16/2009