Scammers have set their sights on tablets and smartphones, and away from Windows desktops, in response to rising consumer demand for mobile devices.
The cloud is the current Next Big Thing in computing, and the Next Big Thing in attacks could be a new breed of economic denial-of-service attacks intended to use up resources and drive up the cost of cloud computing, warns a senior security researcher at Adobe Systems.
- By William Jackson
- 01/20/2011
An analysis of the Stuxnet worm shows it to be a combination of sophisticated and flawed work, most likely the product of a partnership between several entities with varying levels of expertise and resources.
- By William Jackson
- 01/19/2011
As expected, Microsoft today released two security bulletins in its January security update.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/11/2011
Microsoft plans to start the year with a light count of just two security bulletins in its January patch.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/06/2011
Code that can exploit a Rich Text Format flaw in Microsoft Office has been published, according to a Microsoft announcement late last month.
- By William Jackson
- 01/05/2011
Token-based login technology has improved significantly, so what are you waiting for?
Microsoft released a security advisory today concerning Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
Microsoft's security team announced late last month that it is investigating two proof-of-concept flaws in Microsoft's Web-related software.
A former FBI consultant claims the FBI had backdoors installed in the OpenBSD operating system to allow the agency to eavesdrop on virtual private networks used by U.S. attorneys nearly a decade ago.
- By William Jackson
- 12/16/2010
Microsoft today announced that its Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) 2010 product is available for evaluation.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 and 9 Web browsers demonstrated better protection against socially engineered exploits than other browsers, as described in a September NSS Labs report.
Plus: Hackers compromise Gawker media sites; Google and Redmond ad malware investigated; Symantec takes a look at the problems you'll be facing in 2011.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/14/2010
Windows IT pros this December find themselves unwrapping a huge package of security updates ahead of Christmas directly from Microsoft.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/14/2010
Microsoft today promised that a hefty December security update will arrive next week.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/09/2010
Microsoft on Tuesday announced an upcoming privacy feature for its Internet Explorer 9 Web browser.
Plus: An eighth of malware attacks come from USB devices, scareware instances are growing.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/07/2010
One of the cables published by WikiLeaks late last month cites U.S. diplomatic concerns over a Chinese software security company with access to Windows source code.
Here's 10 companies we think Microsoft should buy right now to solidify its place in a variety of markets.
- By Lee Pender, Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/02/2010
Microsoft noted last week that its security team is looking into an elevation-of-privilege exploit affecting Windows-based systems.