Microsoft Corp.released a new security advisory. The good news is that it doesn't actually deal with a known exploit, worm, or virus. In other words, it doesn't technically deal with security at all.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/22/2007
Yesterday, Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of its Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment (MOICE), a feature it hopes will help put the kibosh on an increasingly common exploit vector –- the innocent-looking Office document with a malicious payload.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/22/2007
According to security professionals, it's possible for users of Microsoft's new RDP 6.0 client to bypass server-side security settings and successfully establish connections—even when their sessions haven't been authenticated.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/21/2007
A computer disk containing personal information on thousands of Lucent employees and retirees has been missing for at least 10 days, Alcatel-Lucent said Thursday.
- By The Associated Press
- 05/18/2007
Plus: DOE data on the run; can a developer spec make for more secure applications?
Microsoft's unified communications picture is making one more push before seeing the light of day this summer in the form of deployable products.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/15/2007
Plus: Web 2.0 leaks; Cisco's NAC problems are not a problem (we think).
OK, now that we have your attention, really it's Blogger.com that got scammed.
VMware announced today the release of VMware Workstation 6, the first of its virtualization products to offer support for Windows Vista.
Microsoft published seven new fixes for "critical" vulnerabilities in its Windows, Office, Exchange, Internet Explorer and BizTalk Server products.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/08/2007
Microsoft Corp. today published seven new fixes for "critical" vulnerabilities in its Windows, Office, Exchange, Internet Explorer and BizTalk Server products.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/08/2007
If your hand is up, consider yourself open to attack.
All seven updates will address critical issues, Microsoft said. Redmond lumped the bulletins into several groups, two of which affect Windows.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/04/2007
Formally announces availability of security suite for Microsoft clients
- By Keith Ward and Lee Pender
- 05/02/2007
Microsoft Corp. likes to promote Windows Vista as its most secure operating system release ever. And with good reason. After all, the company put a lot of software-development elbow grease into its top-to-bottom redesign of Vista's default security experience.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/01/2007
Vista kind of hides this cool little utility that can be used for quickly peeking over a firewall or other security tricks.
- By Greg Shields
- 04/30/2007
The Supreme Court sided with Microsoft Corp. on Monday in a case that restricts
the reach of U.S. patents overseas.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/30/2007
New beta called 'quantum leap' by VMM product managers.
The next generation Windows Server took the biggest step yet on its long and winding road toward commercial availability when Microsoft announced the release of "Longhorn" Beta 3 Wednesday night.
If you're still using a pre-release version of Windows Vista, you have a little more than a month to upgrade to a commercial version before you start risking data loss.