Novell today begins antitrust legal proceedings against Microsoft that may finally settle an ongoing dispute over its Windows 95 operating system, with Microsoft founder Bill Gates expected to be called as a witness.
On Tuesday, Microsoft will release eight security bulletins, two rated critical and six rated important, to fix 23 vulnerabilities. These will fix holes in Internet Explorer, .NET Framework & Silverlight, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Forefront UAG, and Microsoft Host Integration Server.
The critical patches affects all supported versions of Windows: XP, Vista and Windows 7, Windows Server 2033, 2008 and R2 (not Server Core), and all supported versions of IE, including IE 9. There's a sprinkling of patches rated important affecting all versions of Windows, too.
Google updated Chrome over the weekend to help users affected by Microsoft's errant flagging of the browser as malware.
New versions of Chrome for both the "stable" and "beta" channels were released Saturday, the day after Microsoft's antivirus products identified Chrome as the Zeus botnet Trojan, and deleted the "chrome.exe" file on some users' Windows PCs.
When Microsoft unveiled the Developer Preview of Windows 8 two weeks ago one of the items to get the most attention was it's included unmanaged anti-virus solution.
I was interested in what capabilities it might have and how it would present itself to users who stumble across something malicious. Naturally I installed it on a virtual machine and to a spare disk on a full workstation in my lab. What to test first?
Microsoft grabbed headlines Wednesday with its report about the successful takedown of the Kelihos botnet, but while the company detailed the achievements of its Digital Crimes Unit, it failed to mention the major role security firm Kaspersky Lab played in the operation.
Microsoft's Kelihos takedown announcement centered on the fact that its specialized team of lawyers succeeded in naming defendants in a botnet-related federal court complaint for the first time -- such cases usually involve unknown parties.
Microsoft said it delivered a fatal legal blow to Kelihos, a botnet that stole sensitive personal information stored on computers it infected, and was capable of delivering almost 4 billion spam messages per day.
Microsoft has prevailed in its civil case against the operators of the Rustock botnet, and now is handing over its evidence to the FBI in the hopes it will pursue a criminal case, the company announced on Thursday.
U.S. District Court Judge James Robart, sitting in Washington state, earlier this month ruled that the tens of thousands of domain names and IP addresses used to host the prolific botnet were to be disabled for a period of two years.
To be certified as a fully-compliant, bona fide Windows 8 logo device, a prospective PC must replace its aging BIOS with the new-fangled Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). On the outset, this is certainly a good thing — UEFI is the reason that Windows 8 can detect rootkits and malware at boot time, and it’s part of the reason that Windows 8 can start so quickly — but UEFI could also be used to block other operating systems, such as Linux, from being installed.
Trying to control file security on enterprise servers is like herding extremely fertile cats; without clamping down on breeding, they're soon too numerous to control. Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) addresses this problem with Dynamic Access Control, a feature in the forthcoming Windows Server 8 that introduces centralized, domain-level security for file and folder access that layers atop any existing file system permissions.
Of all the Tokyo Game Show attendees who visited the Kinect booth, one salaryman in a button-down shirt stood out. He jumped into the Dance Central game with gusto, busting out crazy moves in his patent-leather shoes, literally going leaps and bounds beyond what the dance game required.
A small crowd gathered to watch his moves. At one point, he did a handstand in front of the Xbox 360 camera controller. He was making Kinect look like barrels of fun. But did the man, who gave his name as Yoshida, plan to buy the upcoming game and do “The Humpty Dance” at home?
