The majority of Internet security threats come from unpatched vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat/Reader and Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.
Stuxnet is on the attack. Plus: old-school encryption makes a comeback; sniffing out threats, more.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/19/2010
Dell Kace today rolled out a free browser virtualization solution that can help protect against Web threats.
Amped up 'responsible disclosure' gets toned down to 'coordinated vulnerability disclosure.' Plus: Redmond won't pay for bugs, and hacking has its own rewards.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/26/2010
Microsoft releases fix early due to exploits out in the wild. Plus: Microsoft, Adobe team up on flaw research; IE 8 privacy controls handling debated.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/03/2010
The international registries that allocate IP addresses say only about 6 percent of IPv4 addresses remain available, and with an uptick in demand since the beginning of the year, the pool could be exhausted in about six months.
- By William Jackson
- 08/02/2010
Microsoft this week touted global market share gains for Internet Explorer 8 over rival browsers, citing July data from Net Applications.
Microsoft today released the fourth "platform preview" of Internet Explorer 9, the company's next-generation Web browser.
Plus: Adobe readies Reader patch; Google engineer may get formal recognition for Windows flaws.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/09/2010
Microsoft this week provided notice of some upcoming product updates and betas to expect in the coming months.
Plus: Security Essentials 2 beta releases this week; XP 2 security trick; Facebook scams growing.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/16/2010
Microsoft today announced that it has completed integrating its Bing search engine technology into Yahoo's U.S. and Canadian Web portals.
A flaw with curious name, "binary planting," grows out of iTunes on Windows. There's a workaround for that.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/23/2010
Microsoft issued a security advisory this evening about an old hacking trick that could affect Windows systems via remote servers.
The Web site IEBest.com posted late yesterday that it plans to release IE 9 to its readers, two days before Microsoft plans to release it.
Microsoft last week released the latest version of a free tool designed to help ward off attacks to legacy software.
Microsoft updated its security advisory today concerning a dynamic link library issue and published a "Fix it" solution to help address the problem.
Late on Monday, Microsoft published additional information about an ASP.NET flaw, which is now being exploited.
With the release of its IE 9 beta, Microsoft on Wednesday promised that Web surfing would, from here on out, be about the sites users visit and not about the browser.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/15/2010
Internet Explorer 9, released on Wednesday in beta form, doesn't talk to strangers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/16/2010