A white paper published by Microsoft on Wednesday concludes that Internet Explorer 8 is the fastest browser, based on benchmark testing conducted in a Microsoft lab.
nCircle's Tyler Reguly discovered a vulnerability that renders the Microsoft's DNS patch virtually useless if a server has already been compromised.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/12/2009
Adobe Systems Inc. had its own Patch Tuesday yesterday when it issued a critical security fix for an Adobe Reader 9 bug that first got broad attention in late February.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/11/2009
Plus, eBay bites its users; Safari's hacker gets brazen.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/10/2009
Mike Nash, Microsoft's corporate vice president for Windows product management, talks about the status of IE 8 RC1.
- By Doug Barney and Kurt Mackie
- 03/09/2009
Microsoft will expand the list of "features" that can be disabled when the Windows 7 Release Candidate becomes available, including the ability to turn off IE 8.
The European Commission (EC) on Wednesday announced that it is changing its full-time monitoring of Microsoft's compliance with a 2004 antitrust decision, and instead will use technical consultants for monitoring on an "ad hoc" basis.
The botnets responsible for so much spam appear to be in a rebuilding phase, but any respite is likely to be brief and new threats loom on the horizon, according to e-mail security firm MX Logic.
- By William Jackson
- 03/05/2009
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is updating its recommendations for meeting the unusual security challenges presented by the domain name system.
- By William Jackson
- 03/03/2009
Google is the latest Web browser maker to join the plaintiff's side in a European Commission (EC) complaint against Microsoft's Internet Explorer distribution practices.
A team consisting of Microsoft Research personnel and university staff members has demonstrated a potentially more secure Web browser called Gazelle.
Apple has released a public beta of Safari 4, introducing several new end-user features, along with built-in developer tools and a new JavaScript engine called Nitro.
Microsoft and its hardware partners on Monday rolled out preconfigured data warehouse reference architectures that incorporate Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
Plus, Cooking up a new browser from scratch; baking in security; Adobe Reader flaw discovered.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/23/2009
Exploits for a serious cache-poisoning vulnerability discovered in the DNS last year have begun to appear in the wild, and they have made security researcher Dan Kaminsky a believer in DNS Security Extensions.
- By William Jackson
- 02/20/2009
A Norwegian Web portal has begun a campaign to kill the use of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 browser.
Microsoft earlier this month began advocating for greater broadband access in a policy blog, with a particular focus on a piece of spectrum called "white spaces."
- By Jim Barthold
- 02/19/2009
Trend Micro said hackers are targeting a hole in Internet Explorer 7 that was addressed in Microsoft's February security patch issued last week.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/18/2009
Problems with the Conficker worm have become so widespread that Microsoft is putting up $250,000 for information leading to the arrest of the worm's author.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/12/2009
A weakened economy will serve as a catalyst to push enterprises from on-premise computing to accessing services over the Internet cloud, according to Microsoft exec Doug Hauser, who delivered an address on Wednesday at the Thomas Weisel 2009 Technology and Telecom Conference.
- By Jim Barthold
- 02/11/2009