Privacy advocates are sounding the alarm bells as approval for a Microsoft patent filed in 2009 finally sees the light of day. To 'make matters worse', the patent called "Legal Intercept" may also be making its way into everyone's favourite VoIP application - Skype.
HackLabs director Chris Gatford seems to think that the latest vulnerability discovered in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol could see the birth of Conficker 2.0, as he believes that the scope and impact of the vulnerability is extremely similar to that of MS-08-67.
Discovered in 2008, the vulnerability in Microsoft's Remote Procedure Call affected not only Windows XP, 2000, Vista, Server 2003 and 2008 but also the pre-beta version of Windows 7.
After the recently concluded pwn2own an pwnium contest, the security of your web browser is once again a hot topic. Vulnerabilities within browsers are certainly not new, however, it is the mitigation techniques - the methods used by folks like Microsoft, Mozilla and Google to defeat exploit writers - that has researchers more interested.
Microsoft has released 6 updates in this month's patch Tuesday, including a patch for a critical hole which the software maker warns could be hit within the next 30 days.
The flaw covers all current versions of Windows and is found in the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and allows for attackers to run code remotely. Although Vista users and above can activate the remote desktop network level authentication. In addition, RDP is usually disabled by default.
Tom Smith, chief marketing manager for Nissan North America, planned to unveil the redesigned Pathfinder at the Chicago Auto Show in February. His problem: Although much of the allure of the new Pathfinder is in its upgraded interior, Smith didn’t have the whole car to show off, just a fiberglass shell.
Microsoft announced today that next week's Patch Tuesday will be the lightest of 2012, with six security bulletins and just one rated critical.
The critical patch will pertain to all Windows customers as it addresses a vulnerability that affects the entire family of the operating system, up to and including Windows 7.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 browser has fallen.
A team of French researchers exploited two different IE zero-day flaws to break into a fully patched Windows 7 SP1 machine and take an almost unassailable lead in this year’s CanSecWest Pwn2Own competition.
Ray Ozzie, the man who succeeded Bill Gates as Microsoft Corp's tech visionary, believes the world has moved past the personal computer, potentially leaving behind the world's largest software company.
The PC, which was Microsoft's foundation and still determines the company's financial performance, has been nudged aside by powerful phones and tablets running Apple and Google software, the former Microsoft executive said.
Microsoft's 'most radically redesigned version of Windows since Windows 95 (their words, not ours)--Windows 8 is garnering consumer attention, although Indian CIOs are shaking their heads.
Indian CIOs aren't ready to kiss their existing operating systems goodbye and make way for the new touch-centric operating system.
A study commissioned by Microsoft reckons that global cloud services will generate nearly 14 million jobs between 2011 and 2015, and that "IT innovation created by cloud computing" could produce $1.1 trillion in new annual revenues by 2015.
"The cloud is going to have a huge impact on job creation," said Microsoft cloud wrangler Susan Hauser in a statement announcing the IDC study. "It's a transformative technology that will drive down costs, spur innovation, and open up new jobs and skillsets across the globe."
