A mish-mash of security issues came up this week, everything from how to protect virtualized environments to a system that protects copper in utility sites from robbery and a story about digital certificate thefts.
For all its success as the world's biggest maker of PC operating systems and office programs, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a>'s position as the dominant provider of software to consumers is at risk.
A leaked photo purportedly showing Nokia's first smartphone using Mango, the latest version of the Windows Phone operating system, depicts the handset as a full touchscreen device with no physical buttons on the front.
A new Windows worm is working its way through company networks by taking advantage of weak passwords, security researchers said over the weekend.
Windows XP quietly turned 10 years old Wednesday, a milestone for the still-popular operating system that powers nearly half the world's PCs.
"The PC is dead!" We've heard that message a lot since the birth of Apple's iPad, but when one of the creators of IBM's first PC added his voice to the chorus, people took notice.
Hewlett-Packard's sale or spin-off of its PC business will put pressure on Microsoft to "hit the ball out of the park" with Windows 8, an analyst said today.
A "minor" college class project intended to demonstrate how first-time users fared in doing basic tasks on different <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/061510-smartphone-history.html">smartphones</a> has triggered an Internet wave of mockery, condemnation and invective. In a 10-minute video, the <a href="https://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/120101-iphone-quiz.html">iPhone</a> 4 and the Samsung Focus running <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/windows.html">Windows</a> Phone 7 are rated superior to the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/110910-google-android-useful-resources-smartphones.html">Android</a>-based HTC Thunderbolt and a RIM BlackBerry Storm.
Thirty years ago, IBM created the first personal computer running Microsoft's MS-DOS. Today, IBM and Microsoft seem to have very different views on the future of the PC.
Microsoft on Tuesday patched the last vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) used by a researcher in March to win $15,000 at the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest.
Windows 7 will be on 42% of the world's computers by the end of this year, a Gartner analyst predicted today.
While still not great, the operating systems behind Apple desktops, laptops and phones are getting more secure, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/080411-blackhat-overview.html?hpg1=bn">researchers at Black Hat</a> say.While not recommended for corporate use unless it’s in islands within larger networks, the OSX operating system has made strides, says Alex Stamos, who lead a team of researchers from iSec Partners that researched the OSX and Windows 7 operating systems.
Microsoft this week urged users to keep an oft-criticized Windows security feature turned on, even as it said that more malware is disabling the tool.
Microsoft today said it will ship 13 security updates next week to patch 22 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Windows, Visio and Visual Studio.
Microsoft today launched a $250,000 contest for researchers who develop defensive security technologies that deal with entire classes of exploits.