Last week, the new Windows 8 logo leaked online. Meanwhile, the logo’s designer, Paula Scher at Pentagram, could only sigh. The dimensions were off, and it wasn’t even in the right color. Her work for one of the world’s largest brands was already being skewered, but it wasn’t even the right work.
Microsoft says it has discovered evidence that Google is bypassing security settings in Internet Explorer in order to track users' movements.
The controversy comes less than a week after Google, Facebook and other advertising networks was caught circumnavigating users privacy settings on Apple's Safari and Safari Mobile browser.
Unless you’re feeling nostalgic, you probably won’t want to get Windows Mobile 6.1 running on your HTC HD7. Alas, a YouTube video has appeared courtesy of the Dark Forces Team, showing off the ancient OS prancing around the confines of Windows Phone. Yes, Windows Mobile inside Windows Phone, Inception style.
The gap between software patched by IT departments and the applications cyber-criminals actually target is leaving organisations at a greater risk of attack.
And despite BOFHs' efforts to keep Microsoft-supplied packages up to date, non-Redmond software is almost exclusively responsible for the growth in vulnerabilities. That's according to an annual study by Secunia, which was published on Tuesday.
Microsoft today issued nine security updates that patched 21 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Office, .Net, Silverlight and SharePoint Server, including several critical bugs that can be exploited with drive-by attacks.
Four of the nine updates were labeled "critical," Microsoft's highest threat ranking; the others were marked "important." Of the 21 total vulnerabilities, Microsoft classified six as critical, 14 as important and one as "moderate," a step below important on the company's four-step rating system.
Someone's having a bit of fun on Twitter this weekend, but Microsoft doesn't seem to be laughing that much. Earlier this weekend, a Twitter profile page was created someone who said he was Steven Sinofsky, the current development lead on Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system.
Microsoft has released technical design details about the new version of Windows for devices that use ARM chips, outlining in a lengthy blog post different ways in which this OS, called WOA and still in the works, will be alike and different from existing versions of Windows.
Researchers at Symantec said they have spotted a trojan taking advantage of a previously patched Microsoft Office vulnerability.
The exploit, which is being used in targeted attacks, arrives as an email that contains a Microsoft Word file and a separate DLL file, a rare combination considering DLL files are not typically sent over email.
Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) released Thursday a preview of nine security patches scheduled for release on Valentine's Day to fix almost two-dozen vulnerabilities, some critical, in Windows and other software.
The four critical fixes, which Microsoft calls bulletins, get the highest rating because they could allow a hacker to run malicious code in Microsoft software from a remote location. Three of the patches will require a computer reboot to install.
It seems like the recent release of Kinect for Windows has caused a resurgence in Kinect hacks over the last few days. The official Microsoft SDK makes it easier than ever to come up with interesting new uses for the depth-sensing camera system, and now there's a Kinect hack you can play with from the comfort of your own home without even buying a Kinect.
