Vulnerabilities Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about our ongoing investigation into vulnerabilities in the public and private versions of Microsoft’s Active Template Library (ATL). This advisory also provides guidance as to what developers can do to help ensure that the controls and components they have built are [...]
Originally posted at zdnet.com by Ed Bott – Office 2010 makes a splashy public debut
Can Microsoft hit back-to-back home runs?
The Office team has to be feeling some heat as they hang around the on-deck circle waiting for Windows 7 to release to manufacturing (in “late July,” according to a press release last week). With today’s [...]
At the RSA conference in San Francisco, VP of Trustworthy Computing Scott Charney told the conference attendees that Microsoft was planning new security offerings to ease the management of identity and authentication information. He further added that Microsoft was working on a new server initiative as part of its Geneva Project. This new [...]
Microsoft recently admitted that it had released more patches during the second half of 2008 than it had in the beginning of the year. No surprise here, and we certainly didn’t need Microsoft to tell us this. We could have looked at the history of its patches. What is surprising, in a weird kind of [...]
Businesses such as yours need their data to be highly secure and their IT systems reliable. We can help you increase the security features and reliability of your systems with well-supported Microsoft products. Windows Server® 2008 and other solutions offer robust security features for servers and clients, helping you simplify security management while working to [...]
The demands of an always-on work environment that spans geographies and time zones is ever-increasing the pressures on IT departments to provide rich, connected capabilities across the infrastructure, while protecting both the environment and its confidential data from intrusion and disruption. The infrastructure optimization process helps organizations transform their IT infrastructures into strategic assets, reducing [...]
Coming in the second half of 2008, Windows Small Business Server (Windows SBS) 2008 represents the next-generation integrated server solution for small businesses (up to 75 users or network devices). Part of the Windows Essential Server Solutions family, Windows SBS 2008 offers a targeted combination of technologies and management capabilities for your small-business. Streamlined installation [...]
As the scope of security threats on the Internet have increased, security professionals at Google have an increased responsibility to adjusting to this new state of security on the Internet. Google is constantly working to gain the upper-hand to threats online and to understand how these threats affect their customers and the Internet community. Google has [...]
Disaster planning has traditionally involved protecting the data center and its assets, attending to the data, the software, and the necessary hardware. In times of disaster however, even when disaster plans function flawlessly, the prospects for business continuity are often grim. Why? Because when it comes to business, the people involved are still the most [...]
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