Writing more secure software is not a simple task, but it can and should be done for applications, experts say.
- By William Jackson
- April 24, 2009
The release candidate version of the Windows 7 operating system has apparently hit the streets in the form of various leaked peer-to-peer BitTorrent distributions.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 24, 2009
Researchers from Finjan Software Inc. announced at the RSA Security conference the discovery of a new botnet on nearly 2 million infected computers -- many of them in U.S. government networks.
- By William Jackson
- April 23, 2009
Microsoft announced its fiscal third-quarter results for 2009, which showed an overall six percent decrease in revenue compared with last year's Q3 result.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 23, 2009
At a time when everyone is watching the bottom line, there is an increasingly strong impetus to virtualize IT environments.
- By William Jackson
- April 23, 2009
Microsoft has been looking to fill jobs associated with Windows 8, its next operating system beyond the current Windows 7 beta.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 22, 2009
There are a wealth of commercial tools available to help secure networks, but getting them to share information so that administrators have more than a piecemeal picture of their systems can be a challenge.
- By William Jackson
- April 22, 2009
Virtualization leader VMware sees a cloudy future for the datacenter. To that end, today the company announced vSphere 4, the next generation of what was formerly called VMware Infrastructure.
- By Keith Ward
- April 21, 2009
As cyber security problems become more widespread, Microsoft urged the IT community to take a more active role, and described its security approach.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- April 21, 2009
Web browsers offered soft and interesting targets for hackers in 2008, who took advantage of them to attack the increasingly rich Web experience, said security expert Jeremiah Grossman.
- By William Jackson
- April 21, 2009
Microsoft again may have disclosed a hint about when the Release Candidate (RC) version of Windows 7 will be available -- possibly before May 5.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 20, 2009
On April 21, VMware will take the wraps off of vSphere, the next generation of its infrastructure suite currently known as VMware Infrastructure.
- By Keith Ward
- April 17, 2009
The European Commission (EC) granted Microsoft another week to respond to a competition complaint involving its Internet Explorer Web browser.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 17, 2009
On April 28, Microsoft plans to release SP2 for Microsoft Office 2007, along with SP2 releases for some of its server products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 16, 2009
Microsoft announced the beta 2 release of "Stirling," which is the code name for an integrated suite of enterprise security solutions based on Forefront products.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- April 16, 2009