Microsoft plans to release new technology designed to take on Adobe’s Flash, as part of a broader strategy to go head to head with Web and design tools. Forest Key, a director of product management for Microsoft’s Server and Tools Division, Silverlight is a browser plug-in that allows Web content providers to offer rich video … Read more
A vulnerability in the way Windows handles animated cursors puts users at risk. Several nefarious websites are already trying to exploit the flaw, according to the SANS Internet Storm Center. The flaw is present on virtually the entire line of Windows OSes, including Vista, which has been held up as Redmond’s poster child for safe … Read more
Those who are using internet explorer as their browser seems to face a lot more exploits than others. New software is released that could be used to exploit a known flaw in Internet Explorer. The code, which was posted Monday to the Milw0rm.com Web site, exploits a recently patched flaw in Microsoft Corp.’s browser. It … Read more
VMware has introduced a public beta test of ACE 2 Enterprise Edition, adding on many new features (including the ability to distribute virtual machines on any portable USB drive) over the previous release which allowed users to construct specific virtual machines and then distribute them. VMware Pocket ACE allows users to store any number of … Read more
Publisher 2007 flaw could allow attacker to take control of a system. EEye claims that the flaw could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a system at the same privilege level as the logged-in user. Effectively this would allow an attacker to take control of a system running Windows XP. But it causes … Read more
As I posted earlier Microsoft just announced release of the promised ODF converter. Developers of the open source project to produce a translator between OpenDocument format (ODF) and Open XML document formats announced the completion of the 1.0 release of the technology. The completed Open XML Translator enables conversion of documents from one format to … Read more