Identity thieves and hackers appear to be coming at Windows users from all fronts, most commonly with spam. They were particularly active during the third quarter of 2008, when they did it eight times more frequently than in the previous quarter, according to a report released Monday by Sophos.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/27/2008
Microsoft today released the first beta of its federated identity services framework aimed at simplifying the way enterprises deploy authentication services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/27/2008
At its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week, Microsoft is unveiling the end-to-end vision for its Software plus Services platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/27/2008
Microsoft's announcement last week that it will offer a new software development platform for cloud computing added new energy to the debate over how and when organizations might begin turning to the technology.
The number of software vulnerabilities in the first half of 2008 dropped 4 percent compared with the previous six months and a respectable 19 percent from the first half of 2007.
- By William Jackson
- 11/03/2008
Yahoo, the advertising and search-engine giant that's taken a beating lately on the stock market, has hired a former Microsoft exec to help scale revenues.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/04/2008
An IDC study found that nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of organizations don't have solutions in place to prevent data leakage over e-mail.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 10/29/2008
Microsoft is evolving its strategy for relational data services in the cloud.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/29/2008
A security flaw in Google's new Android operating system discovered recently by independent researchers further underscores the security debate between open source and proprietary software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/30/2008
Microsoft Office users soon will be able to open, create and edit files using "lightweight" hosted versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/31/2008
Office users soon will be able to open, create and edit files using "lightweight" hosted versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, Microsoft announced.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/31/2008
A startup company called MagCloud.com is currently using Windows Azure, the new Microsoft "cloud operating system" supporting software as a service applications and storage.
Web sites will be able to get improved bandwidth management for streaming media using a new extension to the Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7) Web server.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/04/2008
Microsoft has introduced a new Windows server component to seamlessly connect Active Directory users to Microsoft-based services and other services residing in the Internet cloud.
- By Jim Barthold
- 11/04/2008
Google Inc. has rolled out a security patch for a flaw found last week in its Android operating system for mobile devices.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/04/2008
Redmond rolled out two patches on Tuesday -- one deemed "critical" and one "important."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/11/2008
Microsoft has developed four demonstration applications that showcase its Live Mesh cloud-based data synchronization service, according to a report issued on Tuesday by veteran Microsoft watcher, Mary-Jo Foley.
Azure amounts to Microsoft's "most significant coordinated shift in strategy" since it got come-to-the-Internet religion in 1995.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 11/11/2008
Yahoo's CEO at a tech conference admits to second-guessing the Microsoft offer and offers his assessment of the Google deal gone bad.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/07/2008
Administrators have made improvements in the security of the Domain Name System during the last year, but DNS complexity and a lack of resources have resulted in major security gaps being left in the system that underlies almost all Internet traffic, according to a recent survey of DNS servers.
- By William Jackson
- 11/10/2008