Security firm Sophos disclosed on Monday that BusinessWeek magazine's Web site had been hacked.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/16/2008
Redmond continued to rebuff assertions that a "suggested sites" feature in Internet Explorer 8, currently at Beta 2 release, invades user privacy.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/15/2008
Japan, the United States and China topped the list of countries from which Internet attack traffic originates in a recent report by Akamai Technologies Inc. The three countries accounted for more than 60 percent of attack-oriented Internet traffic.
- By Dan Campbell
- 09/10/2008
Redmond on Tuesday rolled out four critical fixes, as expected, for as many as eight remote code execution exploits for various Windows applications.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/09/2008
As hackers continue to focus their attention on virtualized environments, those looking to adopt virtualization technologies should proceed with caution, according to report from InfoWorld.
- By GCN.com Staff
- 09/09/2008
Greggo's best practices include visting these sites for the latest news and gossip on Microsoft IT issues.
- By Greg Shields
- 09/08/2008
Microsoft kicked off its virtualization push with a number of product announcements, including a key virtual management tool.
Google's Chrome Web browser -- complete with quirky marketing comic book -- made a splash when announced on Tuesday, but what a difference a day makes.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/04/2008
Microsoft plans to roll out just four "critical" fixes in September's security bulletin release expected on Tuesday, according to an advance notice.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/04/2008
Microsoft is continuing its investigation into a vulnerability that could allow hackers to gain superuser privileges on various flavors of the Windows OS.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/02/2008
The software giant this week released its first service pack for Forefront Client Security, a member of its Forefront family of security products.
- By Herb Torrens
- 08/28/2008
Microsoft this week released an update to a 2007 Internet Explorer patch covering Internet Explorer 5.01, Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/28/2008
Although the overall number of vulnerabilities being discovered in software appears to be leveling off or even dropping, two recent reports on Web security say that the overwhelming majority of Web sites studied still have unpatched vulnerabilities that could expose visitors to malicious code.
- By William Jackson
- 08/28/2008
Plus, personal data leaks onto LimeWire; texting and privacy.
Redmond responded on Wednesday to an independent security vendor's discovery of a hard-drive encryption vulnerability affecting Microsoft's BitLocker function, Intel/HP's BIOS and several other products and programs.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/27/2008
The writing's on the wall, it seems, for purveyors of security point solutions. Gone is the day of the best-of-breed anti-virus, firewall, e-mail security or encryption vendors. These days, it's a security suite play.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 08/26/2008
Check Point Software Technologies today released a new solution to address Internet security woes.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/25/2008
A cool trick with a Cisco router, plus why job hunters might be the hunted.
In a sign that hackers have no problem taking advantage of open source solutions, Linux-based product distributor Red Hat issued a "critical" security advisory on Friday, saying that its servers had been compromised.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/22/2008
Microsoft released an improved security filter for its Internet Information Service Web server that is designed to help thwart SQL injection attacks.