As expected, Microsoft released its second out-of-cycle patch in three months -- this time to plug a widely discussed and "critical" vulnerability in Internet Explorer.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/17/2008
Microsoft ratcheted up its product support for SQL Server 2005 by releasing Service Pack 3 (SP3) on Monday, along with SP3 Cumulative Update 1.
- By Herb Torrens
- 12/16/2008
Cisco's 2008 Annual Security Report report highlighted the increasing sophistication of Internet-based attacks, largely because cyber-criminals themselves are becoming increasingly sophisticated.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/16/2008
Microsoft won't say exactly when it will ship the Release Candidate of its Internet Explorer 8 browser but it's "just around the corner," according to a senior company official.
Microsoft released a beta version of its Code Analysis Tool and Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library for developers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/16/2008
Microsoft will end 2008 with a "critical" out-of-cycle patch for IE, according to an advance notification issued Tuesday for a new security update slated for release on Dec. 17.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/16/2008
Plus: Should security experts follow open source's open development model? And the damage that can happen in 4.5 seconds.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/16/2008
A zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer 7 reported last week has sparked increased hacker activity, and now the attacks involve most versions of Microsoft's Internet browser.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/15/2008
Internet Explorer 8 -- Microsoft's latest release, currently at the Beta 2 stage -- was declared to be the safest but the least popular browser, according to a browser security survey.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/11/2008
Digital identity pioneer and open source entrepreneur Dick Hardt will join Microsoft as partner architect, according to his "Identity 2.0" blog on Tuesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 12/11/2008
Microsoft once again has to contend with "Exploit Wednesday." This time, the problem is a zero-day IE 7 flaw discovered soon after the Patch Tuesday release.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/10/2008
The United States has the dubious distinction of hosting the most infected sites and having the most compromised computers relaying spam.
- By William Jackson
- 12/10/2008
Enterprise architecture must be a key part of the strategy used to protect computers and networks from cyberattacks, said Ron Ross, a National Institute of Standards and Technology senior computer scientist.
December's Patch Tuesday will be a historic security update release. But it won't be because of the size and scope of the eight patches.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/09/2008
If you use open source software (OSS), Gartner recommends you have an official OSS policy. But a surprising number of open source adopters are operating without one.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/08/2008
IT pros have some complex reasons for rolling out patches, but one thing is for sure: Threats always loom, so do it sooner rather than later.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/08/2008
The last "Patch Tuesday" of 2008 will be a busy one, with Microsoft planning to release eight fixes next week.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/04/2008
This year, the IT industry reached an inflection point, where more new malicious programs were created than useful ones.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/03/2008
Pentagon officials acknowledged that the malware known as Agent.btz recently affected some Defense Department systems.
- By Dan Campbell
- 12/02/2008
A Service Pack 2 beta Vista and Windows Server 2008 is available for subscribers to MSDN and Microsoft TechNet.