Monday, November 10th, 2008 Windows Vista operating system is far better protected from attack code than Windows XP is. However, in a report issued last week, the company said that its own ActiveX plug-in technology is a significant threat to Vista.The latest of the company's twice-yearly security intelligence reports said that half of the ...
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008 Microsoft's IE8 browser includes a keystroke-logging search suggestion tool similar to the one that Google modified on Monday after coming under fire from consumers.Unlike Chrome, IE8 Beta 2 does not enable the feature - which some have compared to a keylogger - by default. One privacy expert said that was ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 The rumors were right: Internet Explorer 8 will have new privacy features akin to those in Apple Safari. What role should they play in the enterprise?InPrivate Browsing ("Private Browsing" was already taken by Apple) lets the user control whether or not IE saves potentially privacy-related data, including cookies (all cookies ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 One of the most interesting feature that didn’t quite make it into the final release of Firefox 3 is “Private Browsing”, a.k.a. porn mode. The only other browser with this feature built-in today is Safari (another reason to try it in case you haven’t), however, Microsoft may also be building ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Developing technologies that work reliably on their own and as part of the computing ecosystem is core to our mission and is an important part of our commitment to Trustworthy Computing. Our customers and partners expect technologies and services they can depend on anytime, anywhere, and on any device. ...
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