AirTight, a provider of Wi-Fi security services, recently scanned 3,632 access points (APs) and nearly 550 clients in seven different financial centers and found that half of these WAPs were either open (unprotected) or used WEP encryption.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/26/2009
Teams developing applications using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 (VSTS 2008) can now better implement Microsoft's security development lifecycle (SDL) process using a new template addition.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/23/2009
Microsoft on Friday announced that there's a problem for those who applied Service Pack 2 (SP2) to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) -- namely, it's timed to expire in 180 days.
Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, fielded questions from financial analysts at the J.P. Morgan Technology, Media and Telecom Conference on Wednesday.
Deal with Black Duck Software will feed .NET code into KnowledgeBase and Koders.com.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/21/2009
Microsoft on Monday alerted users of its Exchange Server 2007 product that Service Pack 2 (SP2) will be coming sometime in the third quarter of this year.
Responding to public reports of a wild bug, late Monday Microsoft issued a security advisory to address a potential vulnerability in its Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/19/2009
Responding to public reports of a wild bug, late Monday Microsoft issued a security advisory to address a potential vulnerability in its Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/19/2009
The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 bits are available to MSDN subscribers today. A public beta is scheduled for release on Wednesday.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/18/2009
Microsoft Office Groove 2007 will get a name change next year that's more in tune with the SharePoint side of things.
Adobe and Apple rolled out security updates on Tuesday on top of Microsoft's lone patch for PowerPoint.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/14/2009
Microsoft Office Groove 2007 will get a name change next year that's more in tune with the SharePoint side of things.
As expected, Microsoft rolled out only one patch for this month's Patch Tuesday, a critical bulletin for PowerPoint.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/12/2009
The opening keynote address at Tech-Ed on Monday featured Bill Veghte, senior vice president of Windows business, who described a number of upcoming milestones for Microsoft's new products.
Microsoft has set up a repository in which government agencies may upload and store their public-facing datasets so that they can be reused by other parties.
- By Joab Jackson
- 05/12/2009
The second community technology preview of Microsoft's System Center Service Manager is now available for a virtual test drive, according to a Microsoft announcement last week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 05/11/2009
Looking to give its Surface table top device more functionality, Microsoft today released its first service pack with a new SDK that the company says will give developers more flexibility in adding more features.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/11/2009
Microsoft on Monday launched the second beta of its claims-based identity management server platform, code-named "Geneva."
The next release of Microsoft's SQL Server database, code-named "Kilimanjaro," will offer master data management (MDM) and support real-time data feeds for business intelligence (BI), reporting and analytics, the company revealed today.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/11/2009
Microsoft has restructured its .NET Micro Framework (MF) team and plans to eventually open up the .NET MF source code for community development.