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Microsoft disrupts massive cybercrime operation

In its most complex effort to disrupt botnets to date, Microsoft, in collaboration with the financial services industry — including the Financial Services – Information …

Securing SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint enables information sharing and report publishing. It also provides a search facility for users to find content. The problem is that, all too easily, any …

Working exploit for MS12-020 RDP flaw found

The vulnerability in Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation (MS12-020) – a patch for which has been released by during the last Patch Tuesday …

The evolution of malware and the threat landscape

The past 10 years represent a very interesting timeframe for reviewing vulnerability disclosures and ensuing changes that continue to affect risk management in IT …

Microsoft adds new protection mechanisms to IE 10

At the CanSecWest conference held last week in Vancouver, a team of vulnerability researchers from French security firm VUPEN has managed to hack Microsoft’s Internet …

Microsoft patches seven distinct vulnerabilities

We have a total of six bulletins from Microsoft this month, addressing seven distinct vulnerabilities. It’s a pretty light month, but all of your focus should be on …

Microsoft to release 6 bulletins on Patch Tuesday

The Microsoft Security Bulletin Advanced Notification for March 2012 covers six bulletins which include one critical, four important, and one moderate. Bulletin 1 is labeled …

Microsoft: Cloud computing to create millions of jobs

Microsoft today published commissioned research from analyst firm IDC indicating that cloud computing will create nearly 14 million new jobs globally by 2015. IDC’s …

We are at another inflection point, says Microsoft

At the RSA Conference 2012, Scott Charney, corporate vice president of Microsoft Trustworthy Computing, shared his vision for the road ahead as society and computing intersect …

Microsoft says Google also bypassed IE’s privacy settings

Following the discovery that Google and other online advertising companies are bypassing Safari’s default “no tracking” settings with specific code inserted …

February Patch Tuesday lighter than expected

It turns out that this February Patch Tuesday is lighter than we had anticipated. Some of the nine bulletins should be less worrisome to IT admins: the Office vulnerability …

How online communication connects generations

AARP and Microsoft released “Connecting Generations,” a research report that examines how people of all ages are using online communication and social networking …

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