IT Pros and system administrators will be mighty busy this month as Microsoft announced plans to release 12 patches.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/07/2008
We dodged a bullet last month -- the discovery of a fundamental flaw in the Domain Name System, Dan Kaminsky told a standing-room only (and some sitting on the floor) crowd at the Black Hat Briefings Wednesday.
- By William Jackson
- 08/07/2008
Microsoft is initiating a new security notification approach, the company announced on Tuesday at the Black Hat security conference.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/06/2008
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 to manufacturing and, as an evaluation edition, to subscribers of its Microsoft Development Network and TechNet services
- By Joab Jackson
- 08/06/2008
AT&T has introduced a new hosted service that offers online storage, processing power and enterprise applications.
- By Joab Jackson
- 08/06/2008
The Black Hat Briefings return to Caesars Palace this week with a new batch of hands-on security research for a crowd of 4,000 IT administrators, hackers, industry experts and government officials.
- By William Jackson
- 08/06/2008
IBM Corp. late last week touted the construction of two additional cloud computing datacenters -- an investment of $360 million -- which let it address what officials call "surging" demand for cloud computing resources.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 08/05/2008
Open source software topped the list of business "risk factors" outlined in Microsoft's annual 10-K report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
IBM and name-brand Linux operating system distributors Red Hat, Novell and Canonical/Ubuntu have disclosed their intentions to join forces with their hardware partners to create what they are calling "Microsoft-free personal computing choices."
- By John K. Waters
- 08/05/2008
Software vulnerabilities are up this year, especially Web browser-based ones, according to a new report from IBM Internet Security Systems.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/04/2008
Skytap’s Virtual Lab service lets developers subscribe to virtual machines
(VMs) and provides a VM image library and a virtual lab-management app.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/01/2008
Embarcadero Technologies releases DB Optimizer, a new toolset designed to help developers optimize SQL code in databases.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/01/2008
Microsoft’s Virtual Earth and SQL Spatial bring geospatial technology to the enterprise.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/01/2008
Borland expands its ALM suite with Borland Management Solutions,
aimed at improving software-delivery processes.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/01/2008
Next week at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, security researcher Joanna Rutkowska promises to demonstrate how a malicious attacker, working remotely, could take control of the open-source Xen virtualization software.
- By Joab Jackson
- 08/01/2008
Apple Inc. took action on Friday to address the infamous Domain Name System (DNS) problem. And none too soon.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/01/2008
Worldwide Partner Conference announcement promises Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 will be ready to ship by the end of September.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/01/2008
Microsoft introduces "Zermatt," a new set of class libraries for the .NET Framework that simplifies identity management.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/01/2008
Microsoft's open source outreach effort, which started just a few years ago, isn't dead on arrival, if you hear Sam Ramji, Microsoft's senior director of platform strategy, talk about it. Rather, it's coming alive.
Reports are coming in that an AT&T Domain Name System (DNS) server may have been compromised with malicious code that exploits a vulnerability reported earlier this month. This apparently is the first instance of the exploit in the wild.
- By William Jackson
- 07/31/2008