Day: December 19, 2010

With a long-awaited security update to Windows XP now complete, Microsoft is preparing a holiday season push for the 3-year-old operating system–and is set to revisit ambitious plans for the next major revision, News.com has learned. That revision, code-named Longhorn, one of the most difficult and complicated in the company’s history, has fallen further behind […]

For its regular monthly security announcement in August 2004, Microsoft released only a single Security Bulletin, MS04-026, “Vulnerability in Exchange Server 5.5 Outlook Web Access Could Allow Cross-Site Scripting and Spoofing Attacks.” This vulnerability, which could allow a remote attacker to run arbitrary code on a compromised system, has also been assigned the MITRE candidate […]