When the same bugs keep cropping up, what's an application developer to do? Plus: Microsoft opens up about rootkit problem; ranking patch priorities; more.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/23/2010
Approximately 75,000 computer systems at roughly 2,500 organizations worldwide have been caught in a global scheme to steal data.
Microsoft defended its BitLocker data encryption tool last week after a hack was demonstrated that might affect it.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/19/2010
Dell last week announced plans to acquire systems management solution provider Kace for an undisclosed amount.
- By Herb Torrens
- 02/18/2010
Microsoft confirmed that rootkit malware is causing "blue screens of death" for some users who applied a Windows security patch.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/18/2010
A new study describes the top 25 programming errors that can open up security holes in software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/18/2010
Plus: browsers are a prime target in the "hacker Olympics"; the government simulates a cyberattack via "Shockwave."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/16/2010
Microsoft plans to release an update for Windows 7 today to counter software piracy.
- By Anne Watkins
- 02/16/2010
Redmond is once again looking into chatter about Microsoft security patches causing "screens of death."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/12/2010
Microsoft on Tuesday warned of a "vulnerability" associated with two protocols commonly used to establish secure client-server communications.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/10/2010
Microsoft's February security update marks another notable Patch Tuesday, with 13 patches addressing more than 26 vulnerabilities.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/09/2010
Microsoft is set to unload 13 patches this month. Plus: support clock is ticking for some Microsoft products; Adobe apologizes for old bug.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/09/2010
Microsoft today signaled that a hefty batch of security fixes will arrive on Tuesday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/04/2010
Microsoft released yet another security advisory for Internet Explorer on Wednesday, mostly applying to Windows XP users.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/04/2010
A security engineer who reverse-engineered the family of chips from Infineon showed a Black Hat audience how he cracked the chip and accessed its data.
- By William Jackson
- 02/03/2010
VMware last week teamed up with Cisco and NetApp to promote a virtualized datacenter offering geared toward shared or public cloud environments.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 02/02/2010
Support for Internet Explorer 6 appears to be dwindling after Microsoft's Web browser was exploited for well-publicized attacks on Google and other companies.
- By Herb Torrens
- 02/02/2010
Plus: Google phases out IE 6 support; Azure shines spotlight on cloud computing security.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/02/2010
Spyrus Inc. plans to release a portable USB device marketed as "secure Windows on a stick."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/02/2010
Here's a dirty little secret: When an encrypted hard drive goes bad, data could still be permanently lost.
- By Joern Wettern
- 02/01/2010