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Windows 8 upgrade is on the way, Microsoft says

Microsoft said it will update Windows 8 this year to address customer concerns and try to persuade more users to adopt the operating system. Code-named "Windows Blue," the update may allow users to return to the classic Windows desktop, rather tha...

Yahoo Warns: "Your Small Business May Have Already Been Hacked"

Veteran IT reporter Dan Tynan has a very popular Yahoo SMB column. He interviewed me and I was quoted in his April 25 article about hacking. There is a lot of good ammo in there if you need (to increase) IT security budget: "While attacks on large...

Fraud-as-a-service Goes Mainstream

Researchers at RSA stumbled upon a Facebook page that had been up for several months, and was marketing the Zeus banking Trojan. This is something new as up to now, this type of marketing was limited to the 'darknet' criminal underground. The Face...

Microsoft to release fixes for 57 security flaws

Microsoft latest Patch Tuesday is scheduled to deliver fixes for nearly 60 flaws in Internet Explorer, Windows, Office and Exchange Server software. Five are deemed "critical," including two for IE, which is rare, nCircle's Andrew Storms said. "Th...