Computerworld - Microsoft on Wednesday released a stopgap defense that protects Internet Explorer (IE) against attacks until the company issues a patch on Friday. The update will fix five flaws, including one revealed by a security ...
Microsoft says it is investigating reports of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6,7,8,and 9 as well as targeted attacks that have attempted to exploit the vulnerability. The zero-day flaw,which does not affect Explorer 10,was ...
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Anglian Water has started a phased roll-out of a SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition intranet portal to improve the flow of information around the business. Implemented by Infosys, the portal, called Hawk, is integral to the strategic ...
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Microsoft has launched Visual Studio 2012 and .Net Framework 4.5, its integrated development platform for building and managing applications. The company hopes developers will use the latest Visual Studio and .Net platform to build ...
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Intel on Tuesday said it was on track to launch the next-generation Itanium processor later this year,brushing away any speculation that the processor would reach its end of life in the near future. The next-generation Itanium chip for ...
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Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) servers are common in enterprise networks to offer centralized authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) for access control. But RADIUS servers can also be useful in small and ...
Tags: wireless networking, RADIUS, Wi-Fi net, Elektron
To benefit from a growing Chinese market, Microsoft on Thursday said it is increasing its investment in the country, with new hires, more research for local requirements, and an expansion to additional cities and provinces to bring cloud ...
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Microsoft today said it will issue two security updates next week for its Visual Studio development platform and its System Center Configuration Manager, the company's enterprise patch and software distribution console. The ...
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Microsoft has launched Windows Server 2012 to general availability with a strong message that the operating system will capitalise on the growing importance of cloud and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) computing. "This is one of the most ...
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Businesses should start leaning on vendors now to upgrade applications that use less than 1,024-bit encryption before it's too late. What is currently a voluntary upgrade request from Microsoft is likely to become mandatory within a few ...
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IDG News Service - Microsoft has released Attack Surface Analyzer 1.0, a free tool that can help system administrators, IT security professionals or software developers understand how newly installed applications can affect the security of ...
IDG News Service-Following a four-month beta period,Rackspace has started offering its hosted servers and databases using the open source OpenStack suite of cloud software. That OpenStack has been pressed into production use just two ...
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Microsoft reported its first operating loss since the company went public, during its results call last night. The software giant made some revenue gains in the fourth quarter of 2012, rising 4% year-on-year to $18.06bn, but it also ...
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Technology firm CSC has said that its global insurance software suite Integral is available on Microsoft's Windows Server with a SQL Server database. CSC said that the addition of the Microsoft technology to Integral's portable Java-based ...
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European admins look forward to new capabilities in Windows Server 2012 and high-end features in the free version of Hyper-V 3.0, such as shared-nothing live migration. Hyper-V 3.0 will also include added capabilities for cloud computing, ...