Microsoft plans to test Windows 7's update mechanism by feeding users of the just-issued Release Candidate as many as 10 …
EU antitrust ruling against Intel due on Wednesday
The European Commission is expected to make one of the most significant antitrust decisions in its history on Wednesday when …
Sun shareholders file suit to block sale to Oracle
Sun Microsystems Inc. shareholders filed three separate lawsuits last month in an effort to halt the company's pending sale to …
Microsoft to patch PowerPoint zero-day bug on Tuesday
Microsoft said it will deliver just one security update next week, a fix for PowerPoint that's probably the patch for …
Seagate drives hit by firmware glitch
A UK data recovery specialist has warned that users are still at risk from a firmware update from Seagate, which …
‘Hacker’ threatens to expose health data, demands $10M
Days after a hacker claimed to have broken into a database and encrypted millions of prescription records at the Virginia …
Adobe promises patch for zero-day PDF bug by next Tuesday
Adobe has promised to patch the newest zero-day vulnerability in its popular Adobe Reader software no later than next Tuesday, …
McAfee reports huge drop in spam
Global e-mail spam volumes have dropped 20% for the first quarter this year compared with the same period last year, …
SAP-IBM’s Alloy application pushed to BlackBerry
BlackBerry users will one day be able to use Alloy, the application jointly developed by SAP and IBM that allows …
As wireless monitoring device popularity grows, so do privacy worries
The wireless industry is abuzz with plans for expanding remote monitoring of just about any device over wireless networks. Examples …
Parabon launches grid-based DDoS attack tests
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks of the kind that crippled networks in Estonia two years ago are hard to …
EU slates Microsoft’s IE antitrust hearing for June
European Union (EU) antitrust regulators have set an early June date for an oral hearing during which Microsoft Corp. can …
Attackers exploit Twitter , Myspace, Facebook
Cyberoam announced the Q1 2009 email threat report, in collaboration with partner Commtouch. While Conficker worm took the limelight, a …
Wireless IT in healhcare
After years of talk about wireless technologies' potential for widespread use in medical applications, they appear to be ready for …
Juniper bolsters branch router, switch lines
Juniper Networks this week will extend its branch office line with routers and switches designed to enable remote workers to …
LexisNexis says its data was used by fraudsters
LexisNexis acknowledged that criminals used its information retrieval service for more than three years to gather data that was used …
New standard for encrypting card data
The same organization that led the development of security standards for payment-card magnetic stripe data and PIN-based transactions will soon …
Microsoft aligning management, clouds
Microsoft this week shared the latest on its ambitious cloud computing management, though customers and analysts say they still have …
Desktop Linux: Why it may have lost its chance
It's time we faced it: The Year of the Linux Desktop, long foretold, isn't coming. Year after year, breathless pundits …
Forrester: PC power management still not widespread in IT, despite recession
Most IT professionals, according to a survey conducted by Forrester Research Inc., aren't managing PC power use within their organizations, …