Just before the crash of the dot-com boom that spawned the meteoric rise of Sun Microsystems Inc., then-CEO Scott McNealy …
iPhone to uplift Wi-Fi capabilities
Apple seems to be laying the groundwork to introduce high-capacity, low-power 802.11n Wi-Fi to the iPod Touch, and presumably to …
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 …
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 …
Conficker’s makers lose big, expert says
The malware makers who crafted Conficker must be extremely disappointed, a security expert said today, and not because the Internet …
5 best router and switch features you never use
It's been said that Microsoft Word users only exploit 10% of the software's capabilities. The same might be true of …
Deep computer-spying network touched 103 countries
A 10-month cyberespionage investigation has found that 1,295 computers in 103 countries and belonging to international institutions have been spied …
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 …
IT security on the cheap
Everyone's looking for a handout these days and IT security pros are no exception. A panel of IT experts, including …
Cisco security updates squash router bugs
Cisco has released eight security updates for the Internetwork Operating System (IOS) software used to power its routers. The patches …
China becoming the world’s malware factory
With China's economy cooling down, some of the country's IT professionals are turning to cybercrime, according to a Beijing-based security …
Intel threatens to pull patent plug on AMD
Intel Corp. last week threatened to terminate rights granted to rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. under a patent cross-licensing deal, …
Researchers make wormy Twitter attack
Computer security researchers have devised a new Twitter attack that they say could spread virally, much like a worm on …
Researcher cracks Mac in 10 seconds at PWN2OWN, wins $5K
Charlie Miller, the security researcher who hacked a Mac in two minutes last year at CanSecWest's PWN2OWN contest, improved his …
HP, Cisco jab over virtualization bragging rights
Cisco's announcement Monday of a Unified Computing System for data centers quickly sparked a bragging battle about which vendor can …
Microsoft patches first critical bug in Windows 7 beta
Microsoft Corp. patched the first critical vulnerability in Windows 7 yesterday as it rolled out an update that fixes three …
Adobe patches zero-day PDF bug, mum on details
Adobe patched a critical vulnerability in its PDF viewing and editing software that hackers have been exploiting for more than …
Internet Explorer 8: Security Features for Enterprise Users
Over the past year, Internet Explorer has lost market share while browsers such as Mozilla's Firefox, Apple's Safari and even …
Mobile browsers bring new security headaches
The new generation of mobile Web browsers is going to introduce for enterprise IT departments a rash of security challenges. …