Among other things, our study points to the speed with which vulnerabilities are exploited and the speed with which admins patch systems.
Use PowerShell to find the password age of a local admin account.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 06/11/2008
The rise in the amount of Spam being eaten by families who have fallen on hard times is commensurate with the rise in e-mail spam, Symantec revealed this week.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/11/2008
Microsoft's Tech-Ed North America event for IT professionals kicked off today with a keynote address on enabling "dynamic IT."
Microsoft released seven patches for its June rollout of security fixes. As expected, three are labeled "critical," three "important" and one "moderate."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/10/2008
A list of all the executable files that come with Vista, some familiar and some brand-new.
- By Greg Shields
- 06/09/2008
Plus, the magical Get-Command cmdlet that allows you to be all-knowing.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 06/04/2008
Paying for word processing software may soon be a thing of past if Microsoft competitors Adobe, Google and IBM have any say.
A majority of North American IT chiefs view theft from within as a much greater threat than theft from without, according to a new survey from Secure Computing Corp., an enterprise gateway security provider.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 06/03/2008
Here's an interesting problem that comes with a lesson.
Microsoft continued to investigate what it called public reports of a remote code execution threat for XP and Vista when Apple's Safari Web browser is installed.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/02/2008
Not ready for Server Core's command-line-only interface? An alternative.
- By Greg Shields
- 06/02/2008
Redmond is discontinuing its update blocker tool function for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 users, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/29/2008
Microsoft late last week launched a revamped iteration of its highly trafficked resource sites for developers and IT professionals.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/29/2008
With California facing a $16 billion budget deficit, representatives are looking for new ways to make up for the shortfall.
It's alive, but not quite ready. And it might be slowing down network response. You have some options for disabling IPv6 for now.
- By Greg Shields
- 05/27/2008
Microsoft released High Performance Computing Server 2008 (HPC Server 2008) Beta 2, the next-generation version of Compute Cluster Server 2003.
IT auditors examine accounts just like their financial auditing counterparts. Instead of trial balances, they look at system user accounts to determine who signed on when and who did what. But what about who's logging into what account and when? More important, do these people even work here anymore?
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/19/2008
A former Microsoft employee appears to be coming to the rescue of those suffering from the XP SP3 endless reboot cycle that can happen on computers with AMD processors
MCP exam takers who want to participate in the program have until the end of May to register into the program and register for an exam.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/15/2008