Fix for ASP.NET flaw released. Plus: Symantec's reputation-based security rests on Ubiquity. Microsoft's consumer antivirus now being offered to SMBs.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/28/2010
Microsoft plans to release a patch on Tuesday for a security issue associated with ASP.NET systems.
Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) will be free for small businesses to use "beginning in early October," Microsoft announced today.
Symantec alerts Microsoft Security Essentials users that "scareware" is out there. Plus: a potential flaw in ASP.NET; HTML5 security.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/21/2010
Microsoft announced today that it plans to realign its Windows Embedded Business group to better connect with the company's management and security product lines.
Late on Monday, Microsoft published additional information about an ASP.NET flaw, which is now being exploited.
Internet Explorer 9, released on Wednesday in beta form, doesn't talk to strangers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/16/2010
Microsoft is heralding its newly released Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 2.0 as a fail-safe against hacker incursion methods.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/14/2010
IT pros can now get their hands on nine fixes for Windows systems, addressing 11 vulnerabilities.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/14/2010
A team of European researchers has demonstrated that commercial implementations of quantum key distribution (QKD) are subject to eavesdropping with off-the-shelf equipment.
- By William Jackson
- 09/13/2010
In a video posted to YouTube on Sunday, a hacker by the name of "Iraq resistence" has taken credit for the "Here You Have" e-mail virus and has stated the worm has "… affected NASA, Coca-Cola, Google and most American [companies]."
Security spending may have slowed, but it still outpaces spending in other segments.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 09/13/2010
A scan of IT systems at US-CERT, the Homeland Security Department's primary operational cybersecurity agency, found hundreds of vulnerabilities that could allow someone to compromise data, according to a recent inspector general's report.
- By William Jackson
- 09/10/2010
For the second month in a row, Microsoft will be rolling out a heavier than usual patch load of nine.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/09/2010
Microsoft last week released the latest version of a free tool designed to help ward off attacks to legacy software.
Microsoft updated its security advisory today concerning a dynamic link library issue and published a "Fix it" solution to help address the problem.
Plus: A new IBM study ranks the vulnerability rate of vendors.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/31/2010
Microsoft's security team noted late last week that variants of the Alureon rootkit are now capable of infecting 64-bit Windows systems.
A vulnerability that Microsoft confirmed just yesterday is already being exploited, and the software giant says it can't fix the problem with a simple update.
- By Michael Hardy
- 08/25/2010
Microsoft issued a security advisory this evening about an old hacking trick that could affect Windows systems via remote servers.