Archive for June 8th, 2010

When I was getting ready to head out to TechEd this week I copied a bunch of my Windows Virtual PC virtual machines onto a USB disk.  60 of them to be precise.  But then I had the problem of how to get them all registered. Sure, you can register a virtual machine with Windows... »

The chief operating officer of Twitter, Dick Costolo, has announced that Twitter has 190 million visitors per month and the service pumps out 65 million tweets per day. The 190 figure doesn’t represent registered users, since many visitors only get o... »

Eight bulletins:MS10-032 (Microsoft Windows)Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (979559)Important -- Elevation of PrivilegeMS10-033 (Microsoft Windows)Vulnerabilities in Media Decompression Could Allow Remo... »

The Computer Entertainment Suppliers Association, a Japanese trade group, has estimated that piracy of video games for consoles such as Nintendo DS and PSP cost the gaming industry $41.5 billion between 2004 and 2009.The numbers came from a research st... »

Dangerous search: “World Cup printable bracket”Thanks MikeTom Kelchner »

Today at Tech.Ed in New Orleans, we announced plans to release two new products for the gateway:  VIPRE Email Security for Gateway™ and VIPRE WebFilter™.  Both products are based on a hardened Linux platform, and incorporate VIPRE... »

Hi everyone, Today, as part of our regular monthly security bulletin release cycle, we released 10 bulletins to address 34 total vulnerabilities in Windows, Microsoft Office (including SharePoint), Internet Explorer (IE), Internet Information Services (IIS), and the .NET Framework. Only three of these bulletins get our maximum severity rating of Critical. The rest are rated... »