More than 1 million computers -- possibly yours, too -- are used by hackers as remote-controlled robots to crash online systems, accept spam and steal users' personal information, the FBI said Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- June 14, 2007
A man accused of defrauding people through tens of millions of spam e-mail messages sent around the world was denied bail Wednesday.
- By The Associated Press
- June 14, 2007
Patch Tuesday comes with the publication of six new security bulletins that collectively address vulnerabilities in Windows, IE, Outlook Express, Office and Visio.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 12, 2007
Continuing its support of Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Server 2005, Quest Software recently unveiled its latest offering, Change Director for SQL Server, as well as upgrades to its Performance Analysis for SQL Server 6.0 and Toad SQL Server 3.0.
- By David Kopf
- June 12, 2007
Microsoft's first server aimed at the home market has reached the release candidate phase, and as such, is nearly ready to be pushed out the door.
- By Keith Ward
- June 12, 2007
A key Microsoft virtualization product has gotten an important update.
- By Keith Ward
- June 12, 2007
Google has raised the ghost of Microsoft's past -- anti-competitive practices -- in a complaint to the U.S. government about Windows Vista.
- By Keith Ward
- June 11, 2007
A tool for determining whether or not computers can handle the Windows Vista operating system has been updated, with some useful new features.
- By Keith Ward
- June 08, 2007
Developers can now take a first hand look at Microsoft’s next major upgrade of its flagship database platform. The company this week released the first CTP of SQL Server 2008, until now known as Katmai.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 08, 2007
The next "Patch Tuesday" will also be "Upgrade Tuesday" for admins, as Microsoft releases Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) through Automatic Updates.
- By Keith Ward
- June 08, 2007
New standard provides better support for e-commerce and enterprise security.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 08, 2007
The company develops MCA title for DBAs who want to showcase their database architecting skills.
- By Michael Domingo
- June 07, 2007
The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) plans to publish six security bulletins next Tuesday, according to Thursday's advance notification.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 07, 2007
Altiris has updated its virtualization software to work with Windows Vista. Symantec, which recently acquired Altiris, announced at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Orlando the release of the latest version -- 2.1 -- of its Altiris Software Virtualization Solution (SVS).
- By Keith Ward
- June 07, 2007
Look Mom, take 2: No-script hard drive info, this time using WMIC.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- June 06, 2007