IT pros are having a hard time balancing security, software patch management and IT auditing with a host of other duties, says a Shavlik Technologies survey.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/12/2008
Microsoft appealed penalty for noncompliance with an earlier European Commission antitrust ruling against the company.
A bug that caused problems when backing up files in Windows Home Server has been fixed, according to an announcement issued by Microsoft on Wednesday.
Three patches will target critical remote code execution exploits in Microsoft Office, Publisher and the Jet Database Engine.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/08/2008
Just because you've deployed an enterprise-grade instant messaging (IM) solution from a well-known vendor, doesn't mean you've mitigated -- let alone completely licked -- the threat posed by rogue, unsanctioned or illicit IM use in your enterprise environment.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/07/2008
Thirty years after the first unsolicited e-mail advertisement was sent, the phenomenon now known as spam is continuing to grow -- and becoming more sophisticated, creative and malicious.
- By William Jackson
- 05/07/2008
Last month researchers at online security company Finjan uncovered a 1.4 gigabyte cache of stolen data from North America, Europe, the Middle East and India on a Malaysian server that provided command and control functions for malware attacks in addition to being a drop site for data harvested from compromised computers.
- By William Jackson
- 05/06/2008
Microsoft said that users of Windows XP can now gain access to Service Pack 3 through Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center.
You may not have heard of them, but VPN concentrators can help you properly secure your virtual private network.
- By J. Peter Bruzzese and Tim Duggan
- 05/01/2008
It's a brave new world in anti-malware protection. Joern analyzes the latest security trends.
- By Joern Wettern
- 05/01/2008
One of Microsoft's retail point-of-sale applications has an incompatibility with Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
Whoever becomes our next president will inherit a cyber infrastructure under almost constant attack and at greater risk than eight years ago, and a handful of experts and legislators have come together to ensure that cybersecurity has a high priority in his or her administration.
- By William Jackson
- 04/29/2008
According to a recent study from security and anti-virus specialist Sophos, servers in the U.S. and China host the lion's share of malware-infected Web sites. Meanwhile, Web attacks surged to an all-time high in the first quarter of this year, according to Sophos -- with no sign of dropping off any time soon.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/29/2008
Microsoft is claiming that an injection attack vulnerability discovered late last week and made public this week related to the popular business database application SQL, is not the company's fault but may lie with lax Web developers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/29/2008
The tax filing season has passed, the economic stimulus rebate season is upon us, and the phishers are changing their bait.
- By William Jackson
- 04/23/2008
New attack vectors and methods for hacker intrusion, it seems, are popping up every few months.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/23/2008
Driven by compliance and public confidence issues, information security is expected to expand dramatically over the next few years, according to new research released by Frost & Sullivan and (ISC)².
Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been released to manufacturing, according to a post on Microsoft TechNet.
Security personnel in Redmond are investigating a newly reported zero-day bug vulnerability in Microsoft operating systems and server systems.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/18/2008
Hundreds of executives at some of America's most well-known companies received e-mails that they probably didn't want to get -- even if those messages weren't a hoax.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/18/2008