Microsoft's official stance on the recent Skype outage that left millions of users without phone access for two days last week? "Hey, it's not our fault."
A two-day outage that left millions of Skype users unable to use the popular Internet phone service was caused by an abnormally high number of restarts after people had downloaded a Windows security update, the company said Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/20/2007
Security for the service-oriented architecture (SOA) was described by Brian V. Cummings of Tata Consultancy Services at the IBM SHARE conference this week.
Whenever a doctor, nurse or administrator in Georgia's DeKalb Medical Center sends an e-mail, the message detours through a special box in the three-hospital system's computing cluster. The box analyzes the e-mail, scanning for sensitive information like patient names, prescription histories and Social Security numbers.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/20/2007
The nation's emergency communication system is inadequate, and the government has come up with a solution -- a nationwide wireless broadband network that will operate on a highly valuable portion of the publicly owned airwaves.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/15/2007
Six of the patches fix critical vulnerabilities that could give an attacker full control of a machine.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/14/2007
Microsoft will be releasing a host of patches next week, including six "Critical" and three "Important" updates, in its monthly Patch Tuesday releases.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/09/2007
Microsoft on Tuesday officially released several updates for Windows Vista -- fixes that were initially released to the public last week, before being pulled down.
Terrorists and other criminals could exploit a newly discovered software flaw to hijack massive computer systems used to control critical infrastructure like oil refineries, power plants and factories, a researcher said Saturday.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/06/2007
IRS employees ignored security rules and turned over sensitive computer information to a caller posing as a technical support person, according to a government study.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/03/2007
Apple Inc. has issued a software patch to fix some security holes that independent security researchers recently discovered for the company's vaunted iPhone.
- By The Associated Press
- 08/02/2007
SecureZIP lets you compress and encrypt e-mails and files on your desktops, laptops and servers.
- By Peter Varhol
- 08/01/2007
Here are several ways to protect yourself against dangers on the Web.
- By Peter Varhol
- 08/01/2007
Tips and tricks for making sure your network's domain controllers remain as secure as possible.
- By Joern Wettern
- 08/01/2007
There are a lot of misconceptions surrounding Windows Vista's security features. It's time to set the record straight.
- By Roger A. Grimes
- 08/01/2007
Microsoft's continuing infatuation with Windows Vista secrecy continues, with the company posting some updates on its Windows Connect site, then pulling them down.
Hackers could take control of an iPhone if its owner visits a doctored Web site or Internet hotspot, security researchers reported Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/24/2007
The FBI and Chinese police busted two software piracy gangs and seized programs worth an estimated $500 million, officials said Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/24/2007
For some security researchers who uncover flaws in leading computer programs, a nod of appreciation from software companies is no longer enough. Now they want money.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/23/2007
Ask.com became the first major search engine to promise users it won't store data on their queries, giving the privacy conscious the option of conducting research on the Internet in relative anonymity.
- By The Associated Press
- 07/20/2007