Adobe Systems Inc. today confirmed that it's investigating reports that its popular PDF viewing software, Adobe Reader, contains a critical …
Mozilla re-patches Firefox after regression bug pops up
Mozilla Corp. today rushed out a new version of Firefox to fix a flaw it introduced with the 12-patch security …
IE 8: Its Security Is Worth the Download
Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 in March, and whether to install it is likely your biggest update decision right now. …
‘Pay-as-you-go services could cut software piracy’
Craig Mundie, who heads Microsoft Corp.'s research efforts, said in China that the company may be able to reduce its …
Mozilla patches 12 Firefox bugs, a third of them critical
Mozilla Corp. patched 12 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 3, just days before it hopes to roll out the newest beta …
Microsoft, Oracle issue patches for slew of holes
Microsoft Corp. last week released eight security updates that patch 23 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Excel and other software …
XP shifts to reduced support
As expected, Microsoft Corp. last week moved Windows XP out of its mainstream support program and into a more limited …
New Sidekick will get Exchange support
Despite its heritage as a phone aimed at the youth market, the latest version of the Sidekick mobile device will …
Microsoft sets Office 2007 SP2 release for April 28
Microsoft Corp. has set April 28 as the release date for Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2), the first update …
Mozilla ponders dropping Firefox support for Win2k, early XP
Mozilla Corp. is considering dropping support for Windows 2000 and the earliest versions of XP when it ships the follow-up …
Forrester: Microsoft opens virtual desktop options
Changes that Microsoft Corp. has made to its desktop virtualization licensing are giving enterprises more scenarios for how they can …
Trend Micro dishes out security smorgasbord
Trend Micro Monday dished out a smorgasbord of endpoint security products that put the focus on Trend's cloud-based architecture and …
Conficker botnet could flood Web with spam
Windows PCs infected with the Conficker worm have turned into junk mail-spewing robots capable of sending billions of spam messages …
Microsoft to limit Office 2003 support
Microsoft Corp. has announced that it will drop mainstream support for Office 2003 on April 14, the same day it …
Nokia hopes new app store will replicate App Store
Nokia has spent four years working on building an application distribution system, attracting millions of developers eager to sell to …
Conficker copycat prowls for victims, says Microsoft
An old, but little-known worm has copied some of the infection strategies of Conficker, the worm that raised a ruckus …
Microsoft to limit Office 2003 support
Office 2003, which was last updated in September 2007 with Service Pack 3 (SP3), will leave mainstream support in less …
Attackers exploit critical PowerPoint vulnerability
For the second time in five weeks, Microsoft Corp. warned that hackers were exploiting a critical unpatched bug in its …
Conficker on April 1st: Eve of destruction or big joke?
Security experts say Conficker.C (also called Downadup) presents a serious threat. Infected machines — said to number from 3 million …
Mozilla patches Firefox’s critical Pwn2Own bug
Mozilla Corp. patched two critical Firefox bugs on Friday, including one used the week before by a German student to …