Finally Microsoft is doing something proactive and perhaps even slightly ahead of the game, a real game-change for the security community.
They have released a new AND open-source tool to make debugging easier, it gives developers a lot of help during the release cycle to build more secure software. Mostly because it takes the legwork and [...]

It looks like there is a fairly serious vulnerability in some of the popular media player packages out in the wild packaged as a MP4 file (due to the MP4 codec from 3ivx), it effects Windows Media Player 6.4 and Windows Media Player Classic, which are made by Microsoft, and AOL’s Winamp version 3.5.
All the [...]

I’ve heard this ‘rumour’ plenty of times, I always suspected it was true and Adobe have said similar things about their software.
If you are going to pirate, Microsoft wants you to pirate their software as when you go legit you are already locked in to their proprietary system.
All the more grounds for OSS if you [...]

No surprise really? Microsoft and they monopoly strategies, anti-competitive behaviour, nothing new really is it?

Microsoft and its security rivals are feuding over a key piece of Windows Vista real estate.
The fight is over the display of technology that helps Vista owners manage the security tools on their PC. Symantec, McAfee, Check Point Software Technologies and [...]