The latest Microsoft vulnerabilities discovered affect a variety of things from IE and Remote Desktop to Plug and Play and Print Spooler.
A customer convenience is making it easier for criminals to forge ATM cards.
Microsoft beta products: A look at what's coming, when it's coming and why you should care.
Does Microsoft have the right Digital Rights Management (DRM) solution for you?
- By Joern Wettern
- 09/01/2005
Is Windows Update not cooperating with your patching plans? Here’s some places that can help get Windows Update back up and running.
The recent Cisco IOS vulnerability controversy highlights the attractiveness of routers for hackers.
So you don’t want your users to read all of your Active Directory attributes. Here’s how to stop them.
Resolving ISA Server TCP/IP connectivity issues with free tools.
- By Zubair Alexander
- 08/22/2005
Lynn's disclosure of the Cisco IOS vulnerability targets the technical, but what's really at issue is bad practices.
Add a trace-like window to debug scripts.
IT staff are getting overwelmed as companies co-opt Microsoft's day for releasing patches.
A problem in Microsoft's process for posting patches to the Microsoft Download Center during the August patch day on Tuesday caused users attempting to pull down a critical cumulative patch for Internet Explorer to receive a corrupted file.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/10/2005
Can't seem to find the Security tab in order to set NTFS permissions in Windows XP? Not all is as it appears.
Microsoft released six security bulletins on Patch Tuesday, including three bulletins rated "critical." All six bulletins involved Windows, and one of the bulletins also involved Internet Explorer.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/09/2005
While only Russian-language Web sites have been exploited by the Java vulnerability, it'll only be a matter of time.
Even as Microsoft unveiled the new, mandatory Genuine Advantage 1.0 last week, hackers were prepared to show anyone who wants to bypass the anti-counterfeit device exactly how to do so.
Russ and a reader argue about the legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on Grokster and file sharing.
How to get past RPC errors; logging onto the right user profile.
The percentage of the Windows XP installed base protected by the firewall, Automatic Updates, virus subscription warnings, rewritten code and other baseline security measures in Service Pack 2 keeps inching up.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/28/2005
Shavlik Technologies is going public with a very high-end patch management offering for the most select of Windows customers -- those who have already shelled out a reputed $200,000 or more to Microsoft for a Custom Support Agreement for Windows NT 4.0.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/28/2005