A new whaling scam -- that's a phishing scam that targets big game -- using a supposed U.S. Tax Court notification as bait has reeled in about 600 victims so far, according to Internet security firm SecureWorks.
- By William Jackson
- June 03, 2008
Court documents released this week in a shareholder lawsuit against Yahoo assert that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang's "hubris" and "deep hostility" against Microsoft are to blame for the Microsoft deal falling apart, and that Yahoo's board members should be held personally accountable for the failed deal.
- By Becky Nagel
- June 03, 2008
A majority of North American IT chiefs view theft from within as a much greater threat than theft from without, according to a new survey from Secure Computing Corp., an enterprise gateway security provider.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- June 03, 2008
An investigation launched Tuesday into the possible compromise of about 1,000 patient records at Walter Reed Army Medical Center serves as a stern reminder of how dangerous peer-to-peer and other social networking applications can be, security experts warn.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- June 03, 2008
Microsoft continued to investigate what it called public reports of a remote code execution threat for XP and Vista when Apple's Safari Web browser is installed.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- June 02, 2008
There was a lot of head scratching at this year's MySQL Conference and Expo when Microsoft was singled out for its contributions to open source development.
- By John K. Waters
- June 02, 2008
A new phishing scam is targeting debit-card accounts used to deliver government benefits payments in 15 states.
- By William Jackson
- June 02, 2008
The Lone Star State's largest city offers plenty of extracurricular activities for attendees at this year's Worldwide Partner Conference.
- By Lee Pender and RCP Staff
- June 01, 2008
- By Anne Stuart and RCP Staff
- June 01, 2008
What we know -- so far -- about the next version of the Windows client.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 01, 2008
In a deal that could spell trouble for Dynamics partners, Salesforce.com and Google are integrating some of their key CRM and productivity apps.
- By Lee Pender and Kurt Mackie/RCP Staff
- June 01, 2008
The storage giant's acquisition of the British consulting firm provides a stepping stone for expansion in the United Kingdom and beyond.
- By Anne Stuart and RCP Staff
- June 01, 2008
Redmond is discontinuing its update blocker tool function for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 users, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- May 29, 2008
Microsoft late last week launched a revamped iteration of its highly trafficked resource sites for developers and IT professionals.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 29, 2008
Symantec officials described a workaround to a problem that has affected some users upgrading to Windows XP Service Pack 3 who also use Symantec's security solutions.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- May 29, 2008
When you have most of the marbles, it never hurts to have a few more.
- By Tom Valovic
- May 29, 2008
Microsoft yesterday issued a public preview of Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2008 RC0.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 29, 2008
Last week, an open source variant of AtMail's commercial Webmail offering was released to the public.
- By Will Kraft
- May 28, 2008
With California facing a $16 billion budget deficit, representatives are looking for new ways to make up for the shortfall.
- By Becky Nagel
- May 28, 2008