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.
The security space saw lots of activity in November that may have lasting effects on the way IT pros protect, deploy and maintain environments going forward.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/02/2008
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