Internet Explorer has been a source of chagrin to many Web developers over the years due to less-than-perfect W3C standards support. This problem was pervasive with Internet Explorer 6, considering how badly the aging 2001-era browser renders modern CSS-driven layouts.
Automated workaround replaces manual Windows Registry reset, which elicits mixed response from security experts.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/21/2007
An industry group says it has won a new round in a court battle with Yahoo Inc.'s China arm, which is accused of helping online music pirates.
- By The Associated Press
- 12/21/2007
Just when you thought life couldn't get any riskier for Web app developers, a new species of malicious code is poised to begin oozing onto our networks. Dubbed "Trojans 2.0" by Web security vendor Finjan, this new Web-borne threat leverages Web 2.0 technology -- RSS feeds, social networks, blogs and mashups -- to provide crackers with easy and scalable command-and-control schemes.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/20/2007
With hundreds of millions of lines of code contained in Web browser applications, even the most informed and seasoned developers are bound to overlook a couple of things.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/19/2007
Harold Decker usually installs Microsoft's security patches the day after the release, one Wednesday a month with no fanfare.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/18/2007
Just moments after Microsoft rolled out its last seven patches of 2007, security experts were prognosticating all over cyberspace, mainly pointing out the overwhelming number of fixes related to the Vista operating system in the December release alone.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/14/2007
Exploits continue to dog Microsoft programs and applications, as a government agency announced this week that a bug is in the wild that takes advantage of a flaw in Microsoft's Access Database.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/13/2007
As expected, the last Patch Tuesday offers fixes for seven vulnerabilities -- three of them critical -- and sets the tone for 2008 as the "year of the Vista Patch."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/11/2007
Carolyn M. Gudmundson, a former Microsoft program manager for MSDN, faces arraignment this week on 18 felony counts of wire and mail fraud in the U.S. District Court of Washington, Western District of Washington, Seattle.
Microsoft's last Patch Tuesday release of 2007 is a big one -- seven fixes, with three of them deemed "Critical" and four labeled "Important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/06/2007
Researcher in New Zealand discovered holes in Microsoft's Web Proxy Automatic Discovery (WPAD) program.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/05/2007
Microsoft said that the first service pack for Windows Vista will fight off known exploits as well as kill off its "reduced functionality mode."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/04/2007
Keeping your users informed and involved can save your network.
- By Joern Wettern
- 12/01/2007
This Web security appliance can protect your network within an hour after unpacking the box.
- By Peter Varhol
- 12/01/2007
Police questioned the suspected teenage kingpin of an international cyber crime network accused of infiltrating 1.3 million computers and skimming millions of dollars from victims' bank accounts, officials said.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/30/2007
An electronic privacy group challenging President Bush's domestic spying program scored a minor victory after a judge ordered the federal government to release information about lobbying efforts by telecommunications companies to protect them from prosecution.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/29/2007
Microsoft finds itself continuing to fend off two security threats, both coming about during the Thanksgiving holiday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/26/2007
If the experience of the world's largest software vendor is any guide, the industry's best hope for reducing piracy rests with anti-copying technologies rather than in policing the legalistic user agreements that restrict how software can be used.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/26/2007
If it's time for Christmas music in Wal-Mart, it must the season for that other time-honored tradition: year-end lists. To that end, IT security Goliath Symantec has released a list of the biggest security stories of the year.