Stories about: Microsoft

Microsoft's Bing search engine filters out some sensitive results from searches made in simplified Chinese, the script used to write the language in China, searches revealed Thursday.

NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced that it has been named the Microsoft 2009 Partner of the Year, in the Advanced Infrastructure, Storage Solutions category.

When I first started writing about information security five years ago, all a writer had to do was mention Microsoft in the same headline space as "security vulnerability" to strike page-view gold. In 2004 Microsoft was a couple years into its Trustworthy Computing Initiative but it remained the software company IT security practitioners hated with glee.

This month, Microsoft issued 10 security bulletins and two security advisories. The 10 bulletins address a total of 31 vulnerabilities, 17 of which are rated as critical. This is the largest number of vulnerabilities addressed in a single release by Microsoft; the previous record being 28 last December.

Microsoft has taken aim at a rogue antivirus program called Internet Antivirus Pro.

Cash machines around the world are hosting malware that can harvest a person's card details for use in fraud, a situation that could worsen as the malware becomes more sophisticated, according to a security researcher.

Dimension Data announced today that it is the recipient of a Cisco Global Partner Summit Award. Dimension Data Australia was recognised as the Data Centre Partner of the Year for the Asia-Pacific region. Cisco unveiled the winners on June 3 at its annual channel partner conference in Boston.

Cybercriminals are improving a malicious software program that can be installed on ATMs running Microsoft's Windows XP operating system that records sensitive card details, according to security vendor Trustwave.

Moving to a nearly fully-virtualized infrastructure in 2008 made Joel Braverman a lot more confident in both the physical and digital IT infrastructure at his (relatively new) employer Universal Audio. As manager of IT and the guy responsible for security on that infrastructure-one that supports a company whose products are both expensive and almost entirely digital-it also made him extremely nervous, he says.