Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have simultaneously booted 1 million Linux kernels, all of which ran as virtual machines on the labs' Thunderbird supercomputer.
- By Joab Jackson
- 08/05/2009
Organizations using the BIND 9 DNS server are being urged to update and patch their servers to correct a zero-day vulnerability that can allow denial-of-service attacks.
- By William Jackson
- 08/05/2009
Plus: Cybersecurity czar quits; drama in the ATL; semper Facebook.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/04/2009
Cloud computing promises cost savings, increased flexibility and improved remote access to resources, but these advantages come at a cost.
- By William Jackson
- 08/03/2009
The Security Essentials beta led readers to offer plenty of criticism, but most is directed at third-party anti-virus vendors, not at Microsoft.
Microsoft, Check Point and McAfee provide three whole-disk encryption options; we examine each and choose the best of the bunch.
- By Tony Bradley
- 08/01/2009
Microsoft's upcoming Forefront Threat Management Gateway brings a host of security possibilities to the table.
- By Joern Wettern
- 08/01/2009
When Adobe announced that it would periodically have Patch Tuesday releases of its own to coincide with Microsoft's, it became clear that Windows plays a vital role in the third-party software firm's security repertoire.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/31/2009
Plus: Microsoft's security initiative comes out from under the hat; Office in a sandbox.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/28/2009
Redmond on Tuesday released a security advisory concerning its Active Template Library technology, accompanied by two out-of-band application patches.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/28/2009
The Black Hat security conference continues this week in Las Vegas and Microsoft is once again rallying its industry allies, and even its competitors, to a common cause.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/27/2009
U.S. authorities have not determined who was behind the recent cyber attacks that temporarily knocked some federal Web sites offline.
Microsoft admitted on Monday that some users of Internet Explorer 8 may perceive its newest Web browser as sluggish.
Plus: Windows 7 security baseline guide; Adobe installer flaw; U.S. still ranks in spam origination.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/21/2009
Security software specialist Prevx reported the theft of almost 90,000 FTP credentials from a laundry list of prominent corporate sites by a new trojan called Zeus.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 07/21/2009
Microsoft last week released tools for IT pros and partners planning Windows deployments.
Microsoft's clarification of an Internet Security and Acceleration Server patch released this month has left at least one security expert stumped.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/20/2009
Microsoft announced product names for its latest claims-based identity management server platform, dropping the "Geneva" code name.
Microsoft rolled out beta 2 of its Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) enterprise security solution this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 07/15/2009
There are no surprises with Redmond's six-patch release on Tuesday, but there is plenty of work to be done, security pros contend.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/14/2009