Security

Microsoft patches critical Windows drive-by bug

Also beefs up defenses of aged apps

Media Player, security bypass are focus of Microsoft’s first Patch Tuesday of 2012

Of the seven bulletins issued as part of Microsoft's first Patch Tuesday of the year, researchers agree that a vulnerability affecting Windows Media Player should be the first one patched.

Splunk 4.3 gets a boost for business analysis

Splunk has updated its flagship machine-data search engine for more big data-styled analysis

Cloud and disaster recovery: Load-balanced data centers are not a perfect solution

Attack code published for serious ASP.NET DoS vulnerability

Exploit code for a denial-of-service vulnerability in ASP.NET was published on GitHub

French operator Free slashes mobile pricing with 3G network launch

The company has been threatening since 2008 to halve the cost of mobile communications

Who are the go-to cybersecurity help groups?

There’s lots of cybersecurity information out there, the rick is finding the effective help for your organization

Anti-SOPA crew woos gaming giant Electronic Arts

Change.org petition urges EA to oppose the Stop Online Piracy Act

Virtual-security appliances winning users over traditional messaging-security software

IDC study foresees businesses favoring virtual-security appliances, mostly for VMware sites at first

Pirate Bay block prompts Anonymous to launch DDOS

A court ruling that forced a Finnish ISP to block The Pirate Bay has angered the hacktivist group