Microsoft
Programming Microsoft’s Clouds: Windows Azure and Office 365
This book offers an in-depth look at a wide range of cloud topics. It explains how companies can easily scale their cloud use up and down to fit their business requirements. …
Microsoft fixes 28 security bugs
The Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for June 2012 contains 7 bulletins addressing 28 security bugs. Three of the bulletins are rated “critical” and the rest …
Microsoft and the era of the cloud OS
Built on decades of experience gleaned from running massive datacenters at scale, Windows Server 2012 is the cloud-optimized server OS for customers of all sizes, and Windows …
Microsoft to release seven bulletins next week
The Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for June 2012 lists seven bulletins, three of which are rated “critical” and four “important.” The …
Kaspersky Lab standardizes global IT infrastructure with Microsoft
Kaspersky Lab will increase efficiency by standardizing IT operations by migrating to Microsoft products. “We have been using Microsoft technologies for many years and …
Flame abused Windows Update to spread
You have probably already heard that Microsoft released an out-of-band update that revokes three rogue certificates that were used to sign a couple of modules of the recently …
Win8’s AV will kick in after other solutions stop working
Last week, McAfee shared the findings of a year-long project that revealed that some 17 percent of all the tested PCs around the globe had either no AV software installed or …
Some Flame modules were signed with rogue Microsoft certificates
While investigating the recently unearthed Flame (SkyWiper) toolkit, Microsoft’s researchers have made an unwelcome discovery. “We have discovered through our …
IE10 will have “Do Not Track” on by default
As Microsoft released the preview of the next version of its Internet Explorer browser, news that in Windows 8 the browser will be sending a “Do Not Track” signal …
Top 10 patching hurdles and how to overcome them
Patching is the most effective, efficient and simple method to mitigate malware, worms and viruses. It may not protect against advance attacks that make use of 0-day …
Instant decryption of MS Office 2010 documents now possible
Passware announced Passware Kit Forensic 11.7, which includes live memory analysis and subsequent decryption of MS Word or Excel 2007-2010 files. In addition, the new version …
Microsoft embraces CVRF format for its security bulletins
A year has passed since the Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI) introduced the first version of the Common Vulnerability Reporting …