Microsoft now has a child friendly browser thanks to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP). Actually it is a child friendly version of it’s Internet Explorer 9 browser. The company created the browser as a way for parents and their children to have access to information that will help them to browse the internet safely. It also gives them tools to report any possible dangers to CEOP.
Google previously announced plans to merge data across all of its services in order improve the overall experience for the end users. Microsoft has accused Google of violating user privacy by reading their emails to generate ads on the page.
An accountant over at Microsoft has admitted to stealing over a million dollars from the company. The accountant stated that he wanted to uncover “holes” in the bookkeeping system at Microsoft.
Microsoft’s Hotmail email service earned a bad reputation for “catching” a lot of spam. It appears that the company may be on its way to turning things around.
You damn Windows XP users are the reason rootkits are plaguing computers and networks. Why don’t you upgrade already?
Hackers recently targeted Microsoft by turning one of its sites into a “hot bed of porn” and malware. This attack came after Microsoft criticized Sony and RSA for making “rookie mistakes.”
Microsoft’s war on spam is heating up with it’s relentless pursuit of those involved in Rustock’s pharmaceutical spamming botnet. The company has an ongoing case against several John Does who created and ran the mostly defunct spam system. The ongoing investigation reads a bit like spy novel as the company conducts raids, seizes computers, uncovers computer programs, potential addresses, misused email websites on two continents.
Microsoft and Google are at it again, this time fighting over a major government contract. Previously, Google lost a contract to implement its email system across 88,000 employees for the U.S. Department of Interior. Things are heating up as the two giants duke it out for this high profile contract.
The Rustock botnet has effectively been taken down. And we have Microsoft (mostly) to thank for it.
While Congress continues to wrestle with health care reform, Microsoft is proposing its own health reform for the Internet. The company is proposing that the “technology ecosystem” needs to keep the Internet safe.
Internet Explorer users need to be aware that there’s a particularly nasty bug present in all versions of the Web browser. But Microsoft isn’t doing anything about it. Yet.
Microsoft has released the second edition of its free Security Essentials software. It includes changes both visible and under the hood.
Leaked U.S. government documents suggest Chinese officials may have gained access to the source code for Windows. It’s implied they may have used the code to aid hacking efforts against the West.
The computer virus equivalent of a forensic analysts have been examining the code used in the Stuxnet worm. They says some sections were less sophisticated than first believed, but others were very specifically targeted, which may reveal more about its creators.
Microsoft has added its Windows Security Essentials package to the list of optional downloads available through its automated updates. That’s prompted complaints from one security software manufacturer that such practice is uncompetitive.
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