Thursday, May 8th, 2008 Microsoft's Vista operating system is more susceptible to malware than Windows 2000, and though it's 37% more secure than Windows XP, it's still too vulnerable.That's the contention of security vendor PC Tools, which has a financial interest in the vulnerability of Microsoft's software."Ironically, the new operating system has been hailed ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008 This is a pretty new tool and a very cool one, Hibernation is a fairly new feature for Windows so it’s good to see a new tool targeting that.Microsoft provides a feature called Hibernation also know as suspend to disk that aims to save the system state into an undocumented ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 Microsoft has dropped its nearly three-month-long pursuit of Yahoo, ending a historic acquisition attempt whose failure takes Microsoft back to square one in its quest to boost its online business to better compete against Google."We continue to believe that our proposed acquisition made sense for Microsoft, Yahoo and the market ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Well, Microsoft has finally come clean about the real motivation behind Vista's User Account Control feature. As Tom Espiner's reports from the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft UAC Program Manager David Cross admits that UAC was designed to annoy users.Espiner quotes Cross telling the security-conference audience that negative ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008 Microsoft has provided security advice to web developers using its products after many such sites were compromised. Last week, hundreds of thousands of web pages were infected with a malicious iframe which tries to infect visitors with a trojan. Many high profile sites including the United Nations (un.org), the UK ...
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