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Microsoft’s Products Increasingly Influence the Security Ecosystem

Microsoft is registering progress when it comes to its products influencing the development of the security ecosystem out there. This year, the company celebrates ten years of Trustworthy Computing and eight years since the creation of its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL). SDL, a software development security...

2 February 2012
09:23 GMT

Microsoft Sued Over Windows Update Technology

Microsoft is finding itself on the spot yet again because of intellectual property infringement claims made by BackWeb Technologies. BackWeb has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court in San Francisco, California, accusing the software giant that it is violating no less than four of its patents with the ...

26 March 2009
07:21 GMT

What To Do When Updates and Vista Don't Mix and Generate Errors

Microsoft has set up a comprehensive infrastructure for the delivery and deployment of updates targeting its Windows operating system. Although the company is not yet ready to abandon the practice of issuing service packs for its platforms, it has indicated that large refreshes are becoming less relevant, and on thei...

3 October 2007
03:28 GMT

1024 Bits Encryption Can Be Cracked

Mathematics is not so easy, once you get past the "exact change" problem and the yearly taxes. Here's a mathematical record that might sound simple to achieve, until you try it.An international team of scientists have performed a computational "Herculean Task" and finally found the prime factors of a well-known...

21 May 2007
10:51 GMT

Symantec: Viruses Can Infect Windows Vista via the Windows Update Mechanism

The next time your Windows Vista operating system downloads and deploys updates, it could in fact install malicious code instead. Security company Symantec has warned that Windows platforms are susceptible to malware infection via the Windows Update mechanism. Security researcher Frank Boldewin has revealed that Tro...

10 May 2007
10:51 GMT


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