DLP News, Microsoft, Windows 8
You aren’t ready for Windows 8. It’s coming anyway, a slow-moving freight train of massive change and dread, an enormous update that will sow turmoil in the lives of millions of people around the world. This may surprise you. Like indoor plumbing and...
Anti-Virus, Internet Connectivity, Microsoft, Security, Virus
A new worm called Morto has begun making the rounds on the Internet in the last couple of days, infecting machines via RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol). The worm is generating a large amount of outbound RDP traffic on networks that have infected machines, and Morto is...
DLP News, Microsoft, Virus
Microsoft is telling Windows users that they’ll have to reinstall the operating system if they get infected with a new rootkit that hides in the machine’s boot sector. A new variant of a Trojan Microsoft calls “Popureb” digs so deeply into the...
DLP News, Investment, Microsoft
Influential hedge fund manager David Einhorn has called for Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer to step down, saying the world’s largest software company’s long-time leader is stuck in the past. Microsoft, which was the largest U.S. company by...
DLP News, Microsoft, Skype
There were rumors, but now Microsoft and Skype have now made it official: the Redmond-based software giant will acquire the internet telephony company for $8.5 billion in cash. Xbox and Kinect support are explicitly mentioned in the announcement of this definitive...
