Tips for picking your ultimate patching tool.
- By Joern Wettern
- 05/01/2007
Microsoft Corp. likes to promote Windows Vista as its most secure operating system release ever. And with good reason. After all, the company put a lot of software-development elbow grease into its top-to-bottom redesign of Vista's default security experience.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/01/2007
Web filtering is problematic at best, but iPrism puts up a solid defense.
- By Bill Heldman
- 05/01/2007
An early, well-planned move to Microsoft's new OS could be the answer to enterprise security challenges.
- By Peter Varhol
- 05/01/2007
The Supreme Court sided with Microsoft Corp. on Monday in a case that restricts
the reach of U.S. patents overseas.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/30/2007
New beta called 'quantum leap' by VMM product managers.
An anti-spam organization filed a federal lawsuit Thursday targeting so-called spam harvesters, who facilitate the mass distribution of junk e-mail by trolling the Internet and collecting millions of e-mail addresses.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/27/2007
Google Inc. yanked paid advertisements linked to some 20 search terms that online criminals had hijacked to steal banking and other personal information from Web surfers looking for the Better Business Bureau and other sites.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/27/2007
The next generation Windows Server took the biggest step yet on its long and winding road toward commercial availability when Microsoft announced the release of "Longhorn" Beta 3 Wednesday night.
If you're still using a pre-release version of Windows Vista, you have a little more than a month to upgrade to a commercial version before you start risking data loss.
As keystroke dynamics-based authentication finally begins to gain market traction, one company is poised to make a successful run with it.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/24/2007
Don't look now, but Microsoft Corp. is prepping still another mega-patch, this time for the Windows DNS vulnerability it first disclosed last week.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/20/2007
A break-in targeting State Department computers worldwide last summer occurred after a department employee in Asia opened a mysterious e-mail that quietly allowed hackers inside the U.S. government's network.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/19/2007
Internal Revenue Service offices across the nation that use wireless technology are still vulnerable to hackers, according to the latest assessment of the agency's security policies released Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/18/2007
A break-in targeting State Department computers worldwide last summer occurred after a department employee in Asia opened a mysterious e-mail.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/18/2007
Internal Revenue Service offices across the nation that use wireless technology are still vulnerable to hackers
- By The Associated Press
- 04/17/2007
Redmond this week was alerted to a spate of new security flaws in its vulnerability-ridden Word -- only this time, the victim is Microsoft's brand-new Word 2007 application.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/13/2007
For at least 17 months, someone had free rein inside TJX Cos.' computers. Without anyone noticing, one or more intruders installed code on the discount retailer's systems to methodically unearth, collect and transmit account data from at least 45.7 million credit and debit cards.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/13/2007
Yesterday, Microsoft published a new security advisory warning of a new spate of attacks targeting a DNS vulnerability in its Windows server operating systems.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/13/2007
Microsoft has released a public hotfix patch to address a number of ASP.NET 2.0 compilation issues, according to Microsoft Developer Division General Manager Scott Guthrie.