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Web-based myBulletins organizes security updates; gets a ‘C’ grade from one professional Microsoft today launched a Web-based security dashboard for IT professionals that displays a customized view of the company’s past patches. Called “myBulletins,” the dashboard shows the security updates for user-selected products, including the permutations of Windows, the iterations of Office and the various…
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Sourcefire, architecture, and services place Cisco in the catbird seat for emerging enterprise cybersecurity requirements if Cisco remains aggressive It wasn’t too long ago that Cisco was a dominant force in information security technology. The company was a market leader in firewalls, IDS/IPS, and email security and was actively pushing products for endpoint security and…
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Say good-bye to Windows RT. The introduction of the Surface Pro 3 just killed it, if not sooner, then later. Here’s why the operating system has not future. With the Surface Pro 3, Microsoft has finally clarified its tablet strategy: Build productivity tablets that do double-duty as ultrabooks, and charge a premium for them. Aim…
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CEO Nadella will unveil new tablets Tuesday, but can he stop the bleeding? Microsoft has lost more than $1.2 billion so far on its Surface tablet business, an expensive experiment that makes tomorrow’s revelations of new hardware an important milestone for the “devices” side of its corporate-refashioning strategy. On Tuesday, CEO Satya Nadella is expected…
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Microsoft has ended up encouraging users to stop using windows XP for very long. Microsoft’s choice to remove its support team in the sand has sowed uncertainty and will likely encourage bad manners by several clients, analysts said at present. “If next month someone finds another zero-day like this one, Microsoft might just shift the…
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Anti-malware vendors advise about downloaders used to infect PCs Microsoft is placing makers of downloader software on observe when it sees that their softwares are getting used to infect PCs, and it is effective anti-virus vendors that maybe these downloader agenda ought to be tagged as malware. In its latest Security Intelligence Report the corporation…
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From Ceylon to Egison, these 10 languages tackle tough programming problems in unique and increasingly popular ways Beyond the usual suspects: 10 programming languages on the rise The sheer number and diversity of programming languages in use today is immense. For better or worse, however, most organizations settle on a small subset, the usual suspects,…
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There’s a wireless battle brewing, with Bluetooth mesh just the latest contender Vendors will tell you that the Internet of Things (IoT) is here today. We’re here to tell you that it isn’t. This is your warning label. It’s the small print on the prescription that outlines all the nasty complications. The first thing to…
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Since news of the OpenSSL bug started to spread on Monday, administrators and vendors have made a mad scramble to patch the Heartbleed bug. Since news of the OpenSSL bug started to spread on Monday, administrators and vendors have made a mad scramble to patch the Heartbleed bug, named for the flawed implementation of the…
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In 1964, mainframes weren’t new, but the System/360 revolutionized the computer industry In many ways, the modern computer era began in the New Englander Motor Hotel in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was there in 1961 that a task force of top IBM engineers met in secret to figure out how to build the next-generation IBM computer.…