Microsoft will celebrate Safer Internet Day (SID) on February 8, 2011 to raise awareness of online safety and promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile devices. Organized by Insafe , SID is celebrated in more than 60 countries...

Data Privacy Day is held every January to increase awareness of privacy issues in our everyday lives. This year, the focus is on new services that track where we are and then can share our location with friends or with the public. Services that use this...

The Internet Explorer 9 beta protects against 99 percent of “socially engineered malware,” according to independent researcher NSS Labs . What is socially engineered malware? Cybercriminals use socially engineered malware to gain...

We received this email message from a reader: "My Hotmail account keeps getting hacked and my contacts are getting a message from me requesting money. I had gotten two [email messages] from Microsoft asking me to confirm my Hotmail account with my...

Microsoft releases security updates on the second Tuesday of every month. Today Microsoft released of 2 security updates for Microsoft Windows. Get the updates . Watch a video about the updates.

New GPS technologies like Facebook Places, Foursquare, Twitter, and others can track, analyze, and share our movements in the public sphere. But what are the privacy implications? Will we be expected to take responsibility for our own locational...

The Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification Service offers details about security updates approximately three business days before they are released. We do this to allow customers (especially IT professionals) to plan for effective deployment...

We recently received this email message from a reader: "I got a call from someone who said that he was from 'Windows Technical Department Support Group.' He said he was calling to fix my security system. He wanted me to log onto a website so he could...