Yesterday Microsoft announced a successful, collaborative effort to deactivate a major botnet, called win32/Waledac. Botnets are networks of compromised personal and business computers controlled remotely and secretly by one or more cybercriminals...

Microsoft recently joined forces with the organization Enough is Enough to publicize a new safety education program , Internet Safety 101 . Internet Safety 101 is a DVD for parents, educators, and other caregivers to use to help protect kids online...

A new decade is upon us, which means the presence of all kinds of “Best of the Decade” lists and a new United States Census . Much has changed in ten years, including the rise of identity theft , especially on the Internet. The Better Business Bureau...

Microsoft releases security updates on the second Tuesday of every month. Today Microsoft released 13 new security updates for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. Get the updates To download the update, visit the Microsoft Update Web site ....

These days we store more and more information not on our computers but on the Internet, or in the cloud . Cloud computing can be used in all kinds of ways, such as for Web-based e-mail or large, corporate content management systems. Recently, Microsoft...

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and these days it’s very common to send Valentine wishes electronically . Electronic greetings can save time, paper, and postage and can contain go beyond the standard heart-shaped doily with music and animation...

The Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) establishes security and privacy throughout the Microsoft development process. SDL has proven to be effective in making flagship Microsoft products more resilient to security and privacy threats and to better protect...