As the Obama administration and Congress propose various measures to improve the nation's cybersecurity, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is planning to spend "multiple billions of dollars" on cybersecurity research.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 06/23/2010
The Obama administration plans to release late this week a draft of a new national strategy for improving capabilities to identify and authenticate people, organizations and infrastructure in cyberspace, the White House's top cyber official said today.
Big targets are always easy to hit. Perhaps no company in the modern age of commerce knows this better than Microsoft.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/21/2010
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released two draft publications as part of its Cryptographic Key Management Project, an effort to help agencies in their adoption of more advanced cryptographic algorithms and the management of stronger keys.
- By William Jackson
- 06/21/2010
What do the FBI, Microsoft and the American Bankers Association all have in common? Answer: they're all collaborating against online fraud.
Microsoft launched its free Windows Live versions of Office Web Apps on Monday.
Microsoft today released 10 fixes in its June security update, with three deemed "critical" and seven considered "important" to patch.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/08/2010
Plus: Ten for June's Patch Tuesday; MS responds to Google Banning Windows; Adobe encounters another critical security flaw.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/07/2010
Three "critical" and seven "important" fixes will be coming your way.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/04/2010
Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser showed a U.S. market share gain in May compared with competing browsers.
Google restricts the use of Windows by its employees, according a story by the Financial Times on Monday.
Google announced on Wednesday that it has released its VP8 video codec into open source under the WebM open Web media project.
A report issued on Wednesday by Forrester Research chronicles the declining use of Windows XP, as well as Internet Explorer 6, as staples of the corporate desktop.
Microsoft released the second platform preview of Internet Explorer 9 for review by testers.
Windows 7 now has nearly 15 percent of the operating system market for business users, outshining Vista.
- By Natasha Watkins
- 05/04/2010
Two new off-cycle patches follow the usual Patch Tuesday release. Plus: Looking to third-party app security.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/03/2010
Microsoft on Monday provided additional clarification on why it will support the H.264 video codec in Internet Explorer 9.
Microsoft voiced support for the H.264 video codec in future versions of Internet Explorer, while affirming Adobe Flash.
Microsoft issued a security advisory on Thursday for a vulnerability in two SharePoint products.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/30/2010
Microsoft is preparing a security update in June for the IE XSS filter in Internet Explorer 8.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/27/2010