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Spammers Mine New Ground

Spammers have jumped on the global financial crisis to lure unsuspecting victims into their botnets. And, in the wake of last week's election, President-elect Barack Obama also has emerged as bait for other large spam campaigns.

DNS Security Still a Concern

Administrators have made improvements in the security of the Domain Name System during the last year, but DNS complexity and a lack of resources have resulted in major security gaps being left in the system that underlies almost all Internet traffic, according to a recent survey of DNS servers.

VMware Acquires Trango, Brings Virtualization to Telecom Market

VMware today announced a new market direction involving the mobile telecom market: VMware will target mobile phone makers and their partners with a new bare-metal hypervisor optimized for telecom applications.

Microsoft Offers Security Dev Lifecycle Solutions

Microsoft on Monday announced Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) solutions for IT and development pros.

Yang to Microsoft: Buy Yahoo

Yahoo's CEO at a tech conference admits to second-guessing the Microsoft offer and offers his assessment of the Google deal gone bad.

WinHEC: Windows Server 2008 R2 Pushes Processor Limits

Windows Server 2008 R2 got the lion's share of attention on Thursday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles.

Only 2 Fixes Expected on Patch Tuesday

IT pros can expect one of the lightest Patch Tuesdays in recent memory this month as Redmond indicated there would only be two patches -- one critical, one important.

Ballmer Stumps for Azure Down Under

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a rousing endorsement of cloud development in Australia today at a Live Web Rally event entitled Liberation Day.

Yahoo-Google Ad Deal Off

Calling it a distraction to its core mission, Google pulled the plug on an advertising agreement with Yahoo, according to statements from both companies Wednesday.

Intel Atom Leads Worldwide PC Microprocessor Market in Q3

The market for microprocessors is not immune to the economy or the forces of supply and demand, as was evidenced in a third quarter report from IDC this week.

Internet Coming to White Space Near You

Wireless service providers will be able to take advantage of the locally unused television RF spectrum known as white space for high-speed Internet access under widely anticipated rules adopted Tuesday by the Federal Communications Commission.

Microsoft: 'Geneva' Will Help Change Access Paradigm

Microsoft is leading the move to claims-based access with an announcement this week of a claims-aware application codenamed "Geneva" Framework.

UPDATE: Adobe Patches Reader Flaw

Adobe Systems on Wednesday said it has released a patch to stave off stack buffer overflow exploits in its free and widely used Adobe Reader software.

WinHEC: Keynote Spotlights Windows 7 Device Connectivity

Microsoft's Steve Sinofsky started WinHEC by telling developers how Windows 7 will make it easier to integrate device drivers and provide an improved user experience.

Google Issues Mobile OS Security Fix

Google Inc. has rolled out a security patch for a flaw found last week in its Android operating system for mobile devices.

Microsoft To Add Smooth Streaming in IIS7

Web sites will be able to get improved bandwidth management for streaming media using a new extension to the Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7) Web server.

Former MSN Exec Braves the Slopes at Yahoo

Yahoo, the advertising and search-engine giant that's taken a beating lately on the stock market, has hired a former Microsoft exec to help scale revenues.

Microsoft Testing HD Audio for Enterprise VoIP

AudioCodes, based in Lod, Israel, is developing a product road map next year that company officials believe will help Microsoft's push into the enterprise voice-over-IP (VoIP) communications space.

Microsoft Rolls Out Services Connector CTP

Microsoft has introduced a new Windows server component to seamlessly connect Active Directory users to Microsoft-based services and other services residing in the Internet cloud.

Worm Hits Windows 2000 in China

Despite issuing a preemptive patch two weeks ago and another warning late last week, Redmond is now investigating a bug exploiting Windows Server Service for Windows 2000 that reportedly originated in China.