Microsoft Corp., responding to a plea from former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, said Tuesday it had no role in Russia's investigation of a school principal on charges of buying pirated Windows software.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/07/2007
Microsoft Corp.'s Vista operating system might well be Redmond's most secure client operating environment to date, but that doesn't -- and couldn't -- mean Vista is completely unassailable.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 02/07/2007
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has asked Microsoft chairman Bill Gates to intervene in the case of a Russian school principal facing a prison term for buying pirated Windows software for his students, according to a statement.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/06/2007
Police cannot secretly search suspects' computer hard drives over the Internet, a German court ruled Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/06/2007
Microsoft last week added another to a running tally of Office zero-day exploits that currently includes four known Word attacks.The software giant confirmed that it was investigating reports of a new round of "very limited" Excel zero-day attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in Office 2000, Office 2002 (XP), Office 2003 and Office 2004 Mac Edition.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 02/06/2007
Microsoft said it had no role in Russia's investigation of a school principal on charges of buying pirated Windows software.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/06/2007
Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic Tuesday.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/06/2007
Keeping information secure in this age of laptop-lugging workers is the tech industry's most formidable challenge, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/06/2007
A portable hard drive that may contain the personal information of up to 48,000 veterans may have been stolen, the Department of Veterans Affairs and a lawmaker said Friday.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/05/2007
Police cannot secretly search suspects' computer hard drives over the Internet, a German court ruled Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/05/2007
A spammer whom authorities say e-mailed more than 9 billion unwanted advertisements faces a hefty fine.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/05/2007
A portable hard drive that may contain the personal information of up to 48,000 veterans may have been stolen.
- By The Associated Press
- 02/02/2007
Skip the Group Policy administration -- here's a free and simple way to set a unique policy for multiple computers.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 02/01/2007
Early users like Vista's new interface and security improvements, but most are taking a "wait and see" approach.
- By Joanne Cummings
- 02/01/2007
IT pros have reservations, but ethical hackers are becoming a fact of life.
It's a Web-savvy world out there, so getting the most out of any solution will require vigilance on your part.
- By Bill Heldman
- 02/01/2007
Microsoft has signed up more than 100 partners who say they will support its Network Access Protection, or NAP, technology for protecting the network from edge devices such as roaming laptops through quarantine and remediation, the company said Thursday.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/01/2007
A look at Vista's security enhancements and just how much they can help your network.
- By Joern Wettern
- 02/01/2007
Microsoft said Thursday it is shipping Intelligent Applications Gateway (IAG) 2007, a combination of its Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server with Whale Communication's virtual private networking software.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/01/2007
U.S. regulators said Tuesday that Sony BMG Music Entertainment agreed to reimburse consumers up to $150 for damage to their computers from CDs with hidden anti-piracy software.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/30/2007