Security software specialist Prevx reported the theft of almost 90,000 FTP credentials from a laundry list of prominent corporate sites by a new trojan called Zeus.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 07/21/2009
Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit announced this week the release of Service Pack 2 for Mac Office 2008.
- By Herb Torrens
- 07/21/2009
Microsoft is connecting its Live@edu online collaboration suite with Moodle, an open source learning management system.
Microsoft last week released tools for IT pros and partners planning Windows deployments.
Microsoft's clarification of an Internet Security and Acceleration Server patch released this month has left at least one security expert stumped.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/20/2009
Microsoft announced product names for its latest claims-based identity management server platform, dropping the "Geneva" code name.
At WPC, Microsoft introduced a new Professional-level certification for Windows 7 that adds a twist, with a requirement that candidates pass one of two hardware-based exams from the Help Desk Institute.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/16/2009
Microsoft rolled out beta 2 of its Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) enterprise security solution this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 07/15/2009
Microsoft on Tuesday announced Volume Licensing program changes that supposedly simplify matters for IT shops, as well as hosting providers.
Microsoft announced pricing for its Windows Azure cloud computing services on Tuesday at its Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans.
There are no surprises with Redmond's six-patch release on Tuesday, but there is plenty of work to be done, security pros contend.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/14/2009
The upcoming PowerShell 2.0 has a nifty feature that pass off a PowerShell processing job to the
background, allowng you to do other work in the meantime.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 07/14/2009
Microsoft Office 2010 has reached the technical preview testing stage, company officials announced on Monday at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.
On the eve of its July security patch release, Redmond issued a security advisory on flaws in the ActiveX control function -- the second such advisory in as many weeks.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/13/2009
Plus: What Microsoft knew about ActiveX flaws; what makes ActiveX flaws like 'Conficker'; Twitter gets down
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/13/2009
Redmond is taking steps to increase Microsoft Surface developer participation.
Microsoft on Thursday announced three additional free extensions to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 that can boost the capabilities of the customer relationship management platform.
On Tuesday, Microsoft is planning to roll out six fixes -- three "critical" and three "important" -- in its July security update.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/09/2009
Recent denial-of-service attacks against government Web sites in the United States and South Korea appear to have had little impact and are not particularly sophisticated, experts say.
- By William Jackson
- 07/09/2009
Microsoft on Wednesday announced personnel changes to its Windows Division leadership, beginning with a promotion of Steven Sinofsky to president of that division.