Plus: McAfee's road to safe surfing, and Novell, OpenBSD buffers overflow aplenty.
Don't look now, but Microsoft Corp. is prepping still another mega-patch, this time for the Windows DNS vulnerability it first disclosed last week.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/20/2007
A break-in targeting State Department computers worldwide last summer occurred after a department employee in Asia opened a mysterious e-mail.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/18/2007
One in five help desk calls related to passwords, says one study. Plus: Flaws in EMC NetWorker, GnuPG messaging.
Inexpensive, always on, someone else's management headache, (almost) spam-free inboxes -- having your messaging server hosted has its benefits. But choose your host wisely.
Internal Revenue Service offices across the nation that use wireless technology are still vulnerable to hackers
- By The Associated Press
- 04/17/2007
If you're gonna try my RDP hack in Vista, here are a few things to keep in mind.
- By Greg Shields
- 04/16/2007
Redmond this week was alerted to a spate of new security flaws in its vulnerability-ridden Word -- only this time, the victim is Microsoft's brand-new Word 2007 application.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/13/2007
Yesterday, Microsoft published a new security advisory warning of a new spate of attacks targeting a DNS vulnerability in its Windows server operating systems.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/13/2007
Lieberman Software Corp. has upgraded its flagship Windows management product, User Manager Pro, with a number of security and other enhancements and christened it User Manager Pro Suite.
A computer disk containing the names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of 2.9 million Medicaid and children's health care recipients is missing.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/10/2007
As expected, Microsoft Corp. today published five new security bulletins that patch vulnerabilities in its Windows and Microsoft Content Management Server products.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/10/2007
On top of this week's major update to Microsoft's Windows GDI implementation, Redmond next week plans to issue no less than four Windows security bulletins, including at least one "critical" update.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/05/2007
Microsoft Corp. released an emergency security patch Tuesday to plug a hole in several versions of Windows
- By The Associated Press
- 04/04/2007
As promised, Microsoft Corp. today released an out-of-band update to correct a bevy of flaws in its Windows GDI implementation.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/03/2007
Switches and routers with NAM bound to be exploited. Also: InstallShield troubles and what Symantec is saying about Vista
Hackers stepped up attacks Friday on computers running some versions of Windows, a day after Microsoft disclosed a hole related to the mouse cursor.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/02/2007
We still don't know all that much about the scope of the vulnerability in Microsoft's Windows Animated Cursor handling implementation, but -- based on Redmond's responsiveness thus far -- it seems like a doozy.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/02/2007
Need quick access to your files remotely? Herewith, an alternative to buying something.
- By Greg Shields
- 04/02/2007
Microsoft on Thursday confirmed that it's investigating reports of a new attack exploit that targets one or more vulnerabilities in its Windows Animated Cursor handling implementation.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 03/30/2007