The security community needs to address issues that have been neglected in the past few years, according to security experts at the Government Technology Research Alliance Council.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 12/08/2009
Plus: Patch Tuesday fixes IE zero-day flaw; third party takes up XP's cause.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/08/2009
As expected, the last Windows Security Update of 2009 will include six security bulletins -- three dubbed "critical" and three labeled "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/08/2009
There's no rest for the weary, as Microsoft is planning to release six security bulletins for this coming Patch Tuesday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/04/2009
Security firm Prevx apologized for suggesting that Microsoft's November security patch might cause "black screens" in Windows-based machines.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/04/2009
Security is an economic issue that the government needs to address by providing economic incentives to organizations rather than issuing regulatory mandates.
- By William Jackson
- 12/03/2009
A recent McAfee study on cyber crime and cyber warfare concluded that the world's information infrastructures are increasingly becoming theaters of war.
- By William Jackson
- 12/02/2009
IBM on Monday said it has acquired Guardium, a leading supplier of real-time database application monitoring software.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/01/2009
Health care providers are once again under the gun, struggling to ensure compliance with yet another set of information security and privacy safeguards.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/01/2009
Many malware episodes begin innocently enough.
- By Joern Wettern
- 12/01/2009
Plus: Microsoft patches can result in black screens; when pandas attack.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/30/2009
A new zero-day Internet Explorer bug awaits IT pros returning from the holiday break.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/30/2009
Google has fixed bugs in Google Chrome Frame, including one that Microsoft called out as a security problem.
Systems with proper security and network controls can withstand about 80 percent of known cyberattacks, said a senior National Security Agency official.
Microsoft released Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 to manufacturers on Monday.
Plus: hackers try to bypass Windows 7's WAT; Internet Explorer attack can hurt the kernel.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/17/2009
Microsoft is continuing to investigate holes in its Server Message Block file-sharing protocol used in Windows.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/16/2009
DNSSEC adoption is accelerating, but this good news is offset by the growing number of unmanaged embedded name servers.
- By William Jackson
- 11/16/2009
Microsoft and Sophos are at it again, this time arguing about Windows 7's user account control feature.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/13/2009
Microsoft's efforts on combating server-side Web vulnerabilities, as well as patching its Internet Explorer client, may be paying off.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/13/2009