Less than 24 hours after its Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft issued a security advisory connected to a possible vulnerability in Word 2002 Service Pack 3.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/09/2008
Major vendors of domain name system (DNS) servers are making an unprecedented coordinated release of patches for what is being called a fundamental flaw in DNS, a core element of the Internet.
- By William Jackson
- 07/08/2008
In the wake of a report suggesting that IE was the least secure Web browser, Redmond on Wednesday touted the security features expected to appear in IE 8.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/02/2008
Microsoft's Brian Hall looks to better integrate the Windows Live online strategy.
More than 40 percent of Internet surfers don't use browsers with up-to-date security patches -- and IE users are the biggest culprits.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/01/2008
As his boss Bill Gates departs, Ozzie takes Microsoft's online strategy into the cloud.
Hang on to your wallets -- Microsoft's lineup of online services probably won't come free.
Microsoft's reticence notwithstanding, many people are excited about what Live Mesh can offer.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 07/01/2008
A coalition of academics, information technology industry leaders and public-policy advocates will launch a campaign today to make "access to a fast, open and affordable Internet a basic right for all Americans."
- By William Jackson
- 06/24/2008
Microsoft on Tuesday issued a new security advisory after the discovery of "a recent escalation in a class of attacks" targeting Web sites.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/24/2008
Customers of Bloomberg LP's real-time market data who have long been receiving feeds on their BlackBerrys can now receive them on their Windows Mobile-based devices, thanks to a recently completed development effort.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/20/2008
Microsoft reissues a "critical" patch relating to Bluetooth wireless technology that was released last week as part of its June update cycle.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/19/2008
It took only five hours from the release of Firefox version 3.0 for a researcher to report a critical vulnerability in the open source browser.
- By William Jackson
- 06/19/2008
The volunteer-led Mozilla project has released version 3 of the Firefox browser.
- By Joab Jackson
- 06/18/2008
The rise in the amount of Spam being eaten by families who have fallen on hard times is commensurate with the rise in e-mail spam, Symantec revealed this week.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/11/2008
Microsoft released seven patches for its June rollout of security fixes. As expected, three are labeled "critical," three "important" and one "moderate."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/10/2008
Redmond projects a rollout of seven fixes, with three rated critical, three important and one moderate.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/05/2008
A security research firm has found multiple flaws in Web server software from Sun Microsystems that would collectively allow attackers to log on, gain root access, peruse and delete files, and execute malicious commands.
- By Joab Jackson
- 06/04/2008
Online security company MessageLabs found that more than three-quarters of the e-mail messages it scanned in May were spam, an increase of 3.3 percent over the previous month, said Mark Sunner, MessageLabs' chief security analyst.
- By William Jackson
- 06/04/2008
Paying for word processing software may soon be a thing of past if Microsoft competitors Adobe, Google and IBM have any say.