Developing secure mobile applications is doable if developers are willing to apply the proper testing and auditing techniques.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 08/08/2011
The hacker group Anonymous exploited a hole in a third-party provider's site and exposed 10G of data from rural sheriff's offices.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 08/08/2011
Microsoft researcher says the threat to systems is raised when the UAC feature is disabled. Plus: Large-scale hacking scam is thrown into the spotlight; Two different hacking groups take credit for Syrian Government Web site hack.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/08/2011
The August patch from Microsoft will be thick with security fixes.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/04/2011
Microsoft rolled out a second release of Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2011.
The browser wars took a new turn as Apple's Safari 5 browser gained ground in a July survey.
Partners and users are equally responsible for making a secure Microsoft experience; Plus: IE lacks the security chops of rival browsers; HTML 5 may not be as secure as Microsoft points out; More.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/01/2011
Microsoft shed some light on Wednesday on what caused the problem and why the Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 Update Rollup 4 (RU4) was pulled.
Upgrading from Internet Explorer 8 to IE 9 can represent a cost benefit to organizations, according to a Microsoft-commissioned study.
Microsoft is releasing its coding tool for nonprofessional coders this week.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 07/26/2011
The cmldetBinding() attribute doesn't always need parameters, but it does need the Param keyword. Here's why it makes a difference.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 07/26/2011
New Apple OS playing catch-up to Microsoft's security practices. Plus: A huge 78 vulnerabilities fixed in newest Oracle update; Federal government focuses on security; Cloud insurance on the way?
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/26/2011
I must have missed the memo about using beta software on real systems.
Microsoft reported its fiscal fourth-quarter results today, beating expectations, even with a notable lag in Windows revenues.
Gartner published a couple of studies last month advising IT shops to facilitate the creation and use of applications by employees, as well as their use of simple business intelligence tools.
A beta version of System Center Operations Manager 2012, an infrastructure and application performance monitoring tool that supports both public and private clouds, was released today.
A strong focus of this year's BlackHat conference will be on the growing adoption of the cloud, and what enterprises can do to stay safe. Plus: Researcher warns that Skype may be a large target for hackers; Symantec reports that mobile hackers are becoming more sophisticated.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/18/2011
According to a blog post, a cash reward of $250,000 was announced today by Microsoft for any information that leads to the conviction of the Rustock botnet perpetrators.
Microsoft alerted customers with Exchange 2010 SP1 not to install "Update Rollup 4" until further notice.
Microsoft released the third community technology preview (CTP3) of SQL Server code-named "Denali" and SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1.