Microsoft is readying a new public beta program for its popular Security Essentials application.
The software giant has started to send invites to existing Security Essentials 2 beta testers, inviting them to a future test program on Microsoft Connect. The software maker sent the following email:
According to The Hacker News, Peter Kleissner, an independent programmer and security analyst, will show his findings which might prove that the highly advertised Secure Boot feature in Microsoft's latest operating system is not that reliable.
Kleissner is renowned worldwide after back in 2009, at the USA Black Hat conference, he presented the Stoned Bootkit, an MBR rootkit that was capable bypassing any encryption software that does not rely on hardware-based technologies.
Nokia will add a Windows 8 tablet to its product line in June 2012, a French newspaper reported in an interview with the head of Nokia in France.
"In June 2012, we will have a tablet running Windows 8," Paul Amsellem told Les Echos in a story published yesterday.
Microsoft will reduce the number of distracting restarts for updates to Windows 8, part of its plan to simplify how people interact with the upcoming operating system, a company manager said today.
Security experts, including ones who have criticized Microsoft's updating practices in the past, applauded the changes.
Microsoft Corp shareholders filed out of the software giant's annual meeting grumbling that they did not get to ask more questions in their once-a-year opportunity to quiz Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer.
The gathering broke up with only a smattering of applause from 450 or so in attendance, while a handful of shareholders angrily shouted for more time to ask questions, after a strictly enforced 15 minutes.
Microsoft on Tuesday released four security bulletins as part of its November update, closing the same number of holes and expectedly leaving out a permanent fix for the flaw linked to the Duqu trojan.
Microsoft has integrated RSA's SecurID multiple authentication technology with Active Directory Federation Services, which lets companies extend identity data from the directory service to the cloud.
While ADFS provides user name and password services, RSA's technology goes several steps further by adding another layer of user authentication by way of a hardware or software token that generates an identifying code every 60 seconds.
Nokia Drive, Nokia’s turn by turn GPS navigation solution for their Windows Phone 7.5 handsets is one of their crown jewels, and being exclusive to the system it is expected to sell their phones over their Windows Phone 7 competitors.
Microsoft has issued a temporary fix for a critical Windows vulnerability that has already been exploited to install highly sophisticated malware that targeted manufacturers of industrial systems.
In the continuing saga of the malware known as Duqu, CrySyS Lab at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics has announced it was able to acquire a copy of the "dropper" from one of the victims.
What is a dropper and what does this mean? A dropper is a term used by anti-virus researchers to denote a piece of code that is usually installed onto a computer to download further malicious components.
