Windows provides a fail safe way of recovering your entire hard drive with system images, but what if you only need to recover certain files from the image instead of restoring your entire hard drive?
A $2,000 bounty is being offered to the first developer who creates an open source driver for the Kinect, despite the proposal meeting with Microsoft's staunch disapproval.
The original bounty was $1,000, offered by Adafruit Industries, an open source electronics seller and advocate. However, when Microsoft found out about the bounty and voiced its dissatisfaction Adafruit decided to double the offer.
As the sun rose over the mountains circling Los Reyes, a town in the Mexican state of Michoacán, one morning in March 2009, a caravan of more than 300 heavily armed law enforcement agents set out on a raid.
All but the lead vehicle turned off their headlights to evade lookouts, called "falcons," who work for La Familia Michoacana, the brutal Mexican cartel that controls the drug trade. This time, the police weren't hunting for a secret stash of drugs, guns or money. Instead, they looked to crack down on La Familia's growing counterfeit software ring.
A few days after Microsoft launched its Kinect motion-sensing game system, hackers seem to have broken the security behind Kinect.
A flaw in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 that allows hackers to run any program remotely on a PC without the user's knowledge will not be fixed in Microsoft's security update this month.
Compared to last month's bumper update that fixed a record 49 bugs, November's Patch Tuesday, which will be issued next week, will only fix 11 vulnerabilities via three bulletins. The patch for Office for Windows is rated "critical" while the patches for Office for Mac 2011 and Forefront Unified Access Gateway have been labeled "important."
Despite efforts by Microsoft to battle against the Zeus Trojan via its Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), claims have been made that hackers still have a golden window of opportunity to steal money from bank accounts.
Last month, Microsoft announced the capability to add detection and removal for Zeus for its MSRT, however Trusteer claimed that it tested MSRT against hundreds of Zeus files and found that MSRT detected version 2.0 of Zeus about half (46 per cent) of the time, but is unable to detect the new 2.1 variant of the financial Trojan.
Some systems managers may get a little gift before the holidays start this year. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will deliver only three security patches next week for its regular Patch Tuesday bug fix drop -- and only one of them qualifies as "critical" -- the highest severity in the company's four-tier security ranking scale.
Microsoft has outlined how it might use the little publicised “kill switch” in Windows Phone 7 handsets. A kill switch is a tool that allows software controllers to remove certain apps or software from handsets if they pose a security or privacy risk, such as a Trojan planted in an app.
Apple's iPhone and Google's Android phone software also have kill switches built-in to cover the evetuality that they need to remove malware, or even just apps that break guidelines, but talk of a kill switch on Windows Phone 7 handsets has been muted since the platform launched last month.
Did you feel that? Microsoft has shifted its Internet Explorer development team into higher gear and dropped another rev of the IE 9 beta, this one called Platform Preview Version 6 and touting "next generation experiences." It's all happening so fast. The new Platform Preview arrives just a few weeks after Microsoft launched a new full beta of Internet Explorer 9.
-Microsoft is making a change to its policies for Windows Phone 7 that will allow applications to more easily run when the screen is turned off.
Until now, applications that wanted to run when the screen was locked had to get the user's explicit permission. Under new rules announced on Friday, programs can do so without permission--provided they first demonstrate to Microsoft that they only use a reasonable amount of battery life (allowing more than six hours of use for an app playing audio and more than 120 hours for a program that does not play audio).
