Ryan Naraine

Anti-virus firms have detected yet another worm exploiting the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) vulnerability that was patched by Microsoft in its April batch of security updates. The appearance of the W32.Korgo.B worm (also known as Padobot) spreading through the LSASS flaw is a clear indication that PC users have not yet applied the […]

SAN DIEGO: Microsoft plans to expand its enterprise product support lifecycle policy by a minimum of three years, a move that buys time for the software giant to deal with the unpredictable nature of shipping product upgrades. During a keynote presentation at the TechEd conference Tuesday, Andrew Lees, Microsoft’s vice president of Server Tools Marketing, […]

SAN DIEGO — A second release candidate for Microsoft’s Windows XP Service Pack 2 (XP SP2) could make its debut here as early as Wednesday if developers could work out a nasty bug that affects gaming on 64-bit hardware. According to people familiar with the matter, beta testers running games on 64-bit systems reported problems […]

Microsoft’s all-out “defense in depth” security message is expected to dominate the discussions at its sold-out TechEd conference in San Diego, which kicks off Monday. From Chief Executive Steve Ballmer’s opening keynote, to the hundreds of breakout sessions, software security discussions will be infused throughout the show. The conference is billed as the definitive Microsoft […]

NEW YORK — When Microsoft Research chief Rick Rashid looks into his crystal ball, he sees a world where technological advancements in data storage and networked communication will let humans keep track of every aspect of their daily lives. During a keynote presentation at the WWW Conference here, Rashid outlined the dramatic changes over the […]

NEW YORK — Amazon.com’s A9 subsidiary wants to play a large part in pushing search technology to a future where the relevancy of search results will be startling and exciting. That’s the word from A9 chief executive Udi Manber, PhD, who insists that full development of search and resource discovery tools remains at least a […]

NEW YORK — The World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Semantic Web is ready for a new phase of development that will lead to the creation of new tools, languages and applications, the W3C’s director said. In the process, the Semantic Web will respond more intelligently to user queries. The future of the Semantic Web dominated […]

NEW YORK — World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee has criticized a plan to create a new Top Level Domain (TLD) for mobile devices, warning that a new .MOBI domain will break device independence and separate the Web into two parts. Berners-Lee used the spotlight of the World Wide Web 2004 Conference here to highlight […]

Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability in the Microsoft Outlook 2003 software that could allow malicious hackers to perform illegal actions through e-mails. According to an alert from Secunia, the flaw could let attackers sneak past the security settings in the Outlook 2003 e-mail program and attempt to load harmful code to vulnerable PCs. Outlook […]

Cisco’s big push into the corporate security space took a big hit over the weekend when hackers broke into its corporate network and stole chunks of the source code for the popular IOS operating system. Cisco spokesman Jim Brady confirmed the launch of an investigation into the network breach but declined details on what was […]

The internal unit responsible for securing Microsoft’s IT infrastructure is moving away from traditional network security procedures and adopting a wide-ranging risk management strategy to take advantage of more strict authentication technologies. Details of the new approach were released in a white paper from Microsoft’s Corporate Security Group as part of the company’s recent move […]

Computer security specialist Symantec Thursday moved swiftly to patch for four very serious vulnerabilities in its popular Norton firewall product suite. An alert from Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec described the flaws as “high risk” and warned that a successful exploit could wipe out a user’s computer. Attackers could also execute remote code with kernel-level privileges on […]