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.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced the new release of its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 2.0 solution to remedy a software interoperability problem.
Microsoft on Monday announced that it had rolled out two "new" security baselines for use with its Security Compliance Management tool, plus new setting packs for Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8.
Microsoft today announced a new white paper that explains the organizational and standards-based underpinnings of its cloud security efforts.
Plus: IE 8 still safer than IE 6, 7; Zeus 2.0 escaping MSRT detection.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/09/2010
Microsoft's November security update arrived today, and it's something less than a Thanksgiving meal.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/09/2010
Microsoft announced today that the release candidate version of its Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 security product is now available for download.
After two straight gargantuan rollouts, IT pros are getting a break with November's patch load.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/04/2010
Microsoft, in a security advisory released today, is warning users of Internet Explorer vulnerability that could allow remote code execution by hackers.
DLL fix might still leave Windows users vulnerable. Plus: Bing encryption being considered; Google gets serious about mobile security.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/02/2010