The security space saw lots of activity in November that may have lasting effects on the way IT pros protect, deploy and maintain environments going forward.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/02/2008
Enterprises are starting to appreciate software as a service (SaaS) and plan to maintain or grow their SaaS use, according to a survey conducted by Gartner, tapping 258 respondents.
- By Jim Barthold
- 12/04/2008
Steve Ballmer told The Wall Street Journal on Friday that while Microsoft is open to a search advertising deal with Yahoo, no negotiations currently are taking place.
- By Herb Torrens
- 12/08/2008
December's Patch Tuesday will be a historic security update release. But it won't be because of the size and scope of the eight patches.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/09/2008
Enterprise architecture must be a key part of the strategy used to protect computers and networks from cyberattacks, said Ron Ross, a National Institute of Standards and Technology senior computer scientist.
The United States has the dubious distinction of hosting the most infected sites and having the most compromised computers relaying spam.
- By William Jackson
- 12/10/2008
A zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer 7 reported last week has sparked increased hacker activity, and now the attacks involve most versions of Microsoft's Internet browser.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/15/2008
Microsoft Live Labs announced on Saturday that its Seadragon Mobile graphical user interface (GUI) is now available for the Apple iPhone as a technical preview release, but Windows Mobile users will have to wait to get it.
Internet Explorer 8 -- Microsoft's latest release, currently at the Beta 2 stage -- was declared to be the safest but the least popular browser, according to a browser security survey.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/11/2008
Web developers have traditionally kept multiple browsers on their computers to facilitate testing, but a fairly new Japanese-made experimental browser called Lunascape rolls the three most important engines into one.
Google is exploring a way to run code fast and natively in a Web browser without worrying about security issues.
- By Jim Barthold
- 12/11/2008
Microsoft once again has to contend with "Exploit Wednesday." This time, the problem is a zero-day IE 7 flaw discovered soon after the Patch Tuesday release.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/10/2008
Microsoft will end 2008 with a "critical" out-of-cycle patch for IE, according to an advance notification issued Tuesday for a new security update slated for release on Dec. 17.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/16/2008
Microsoft released a beta version of its Code Analysis Tool and Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library for developers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/16/2008
Cisco's 2008 Annual Security Report report highlighted the increasing sophistication of Internet-based attacks, largely because cyber-criminals themselves are becoming increasingly sophisticated.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/16/2008
Plus: Should security experts follow open source's open development model? And the damage that can happen in 4.5 seconds.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/16/2008
Microsoft won't say exactly when it will ship the Release Candidate of its Internet Explorer 8 browser but it's "just around the corner," according to a senior company official.
The public release of Windows 7 Beta 1 is expected next month, but speculation that it might appear earlier popped up on Friday from a few sources.
As expected, Microsoft released its second out-of-cycle patch in three months -- this time to plug a widely discussed and "critical" vulnerability in Internet Explorer.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/17/2008
Redmond continues to investigate a new zero-day bug affecting popular database application SQL Server.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/23/2008