Managing user access in businesses today is something like playing traffic cop in an intersection of a thousand roads. From Web-based applications to homegrown programs, from desktop PCs to the latest crop of smartphones, IT has to be able to control access to every sort of resource while allowing users to access them from anywhere and any platform. Read the original here: InfoWorld review: Microsoft... 

A newly formed gang of rogue security researchers calling itself MSRC (Microsoft-Spurned Researcher Collective) has announced it will publicize any Windows vulnerabilities it finds, rather than reporting them privately to Microsoft for the company to patch. Read more from the original source: Security researchers wage war on Microsoft  Read More →

An anonymous group of security researchers last week published information about an unpatched Windows bug, saying that they were disclosing the vulnerability because of the way Microsoft treated a colleague. The flaw in Windows Vista and Server 2008 could be used by attackers to gain unauthorized access to a PC or cause it to crash. Read the original post: Angry researchers disclose Windows zero-day... 

Last week, dormant Windows watchers sprang to life in a huge wave, like fireflies switching on in the Atchafalaya Swamp. See the original post: What do we really know about Windows 8?  Read More →

Nearly a month after a Google engineer released details of a new Windows XP flaw, criminals have dramatically ramped up online attacks that leverage the bug. More here: Microsoft: 10,000 PCs hit with new XP zero-day attack  Read More →

My first encounter with Microsoft Forefront occurred a few years ago when I was working on creating a solid defense for an Exchange 2007 deployment. We implemented an ISA server and an Edge Transport server inside the network’s perimeter. The Edge Transport server is an Exchange server that handles antispam protection but lacks solid antivirus protection. For that, you had to add yet another... 

Microsoft is reportedly developing an innovative means of delivering application software to personal computing devices: Leveraging a technology called the Internet, best described as “a series of tubes,” end-users will be able to download programs directly to the Original post: Windows 8 app store: Too little, too late?  Read More →

If you’ve ever tried to develop an online solution that requires a login, you know it isn’t difficult to accomplish — as long as you handle the login information yourself or through a service that retains users’ names, passwords, or other data. These have become commonplace. However, they don’t help so much with federated IDs such as those used for single sign-on via... 

Three out of four companies will soon face more security risks because they continue to run the soon-to-be-retired Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), a report published today claimed. According to Toronto, Canada-based technology provider Softchoice, 77 percent of the organizations it surveyed are running Windows XP SP2 on 10 percent or more of their PCs. Nearly 46 percent of the 280,000 business computers... 

Administrators are constantly learning these days. Server virtualization , desktop VDI , Exchange , SharePoint — it’s a never-ending barrage of new material to take in. Here is the original post: 20 Windows 7 quick tips and tricks for IT admins  Read More →