A reader wants to speed up Internet behind and in front of the firewall.
- By Zubair Alexander
- 12/01/2008
Critics asserting that Windows Live OneCare didn't succeed on its own have got it wrong, according to Microsoft's chief security advisor for the EMEA region.
Coming up with a good data recovery plan is no easy feat. That's where Microsoft's System Center Data Protection Manager comes in.
- By Joern Wettern
- 12/01/2008
Out of a need to protect new video game releases came an anti-tamper application that's now making its way into the enterprise.
Microsoft is seeing an increase in the number of malware attacks exploiting a security hole supposedly addressed by a recent patch.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/26/2008
Windows Vista may have a potential buffer-overflow security problem, according to researchers at Innsbruck, Austria-based enterprise security firm Phion.
Redmond is rolling out a free anti-virus software program for consumers that will compete with products made by Symantec and McAfee.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/19/2008
Plus: Users seeks transparency with SharePoint; Symantec chief retiring; a fool and his job are soon parted.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/17/2008
Microsoft has come clean and confirmed that it took seven years to deliver its Server Message Block (SMB) fix.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/13/2008
It has taken years and a few concept findings by hackers for Microsoft to finally patch its Server Message Block (SMB) vulnerability, but the point is that it's finally done, security experts say.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/12/2008
Redmond rolled out two patches on Tuesday -- one deemed "critical" and one "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/11/2008
Security administrators faced a familiar if uncomfortable position: Just one day after Microsoft released an out-of-band patch to fix vulnerabilities in several versions of Windows, exploit code appeared in the wild.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 11/11/2008
Microsoft on Monday announced Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) solutions for IT and development pros.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/10/2008
Spammers have jumped on the global financial crisis to lure unsuspecting victims into their botnets. And, in the wake of last week's election, President-elect Barack Obama also has emerged as bait for other large spam campaigns.
- By William Jackson
- 11/10/2008
Administrators have made improvements in the security of the Domain Name System during the last year, but DNS complexity and a lack of resources have resulted in major security gaps being left in the system that underlies almost all Internet traffic, according to a recent survey of DNS servers.
- By William Jackson
- 11/10/2008
IT pros can expect one of the lightest Patch Tuesdays in recent memory this month as Redmond indicated there would only be two patches -- one critical, one important.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/06/2008
Adobe Systems on Wednesday said it has released a patch to stave off stack buffer overflow exploits in its free and widely used Adobe Reader software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/05/2008
Microsoft is leading the move to claims-based access with an announcement this week of a claims-aware application codenamed "Geneva" Framework.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/05/2008
Despite issuing a preemptive patch two weeks ago and another warning late last week, Redmond is now investigating a bug exploiting Windows Server Service for Windows 2000 that reportedly originated in China.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/04/2008
Google Inc. has rolled out a security patch for a flaw found last week in its Android operating system for mobile devices.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/04/2008