Security

Microsoft bolsters Office 2003, 2007 security

Optional download warns users of malicious Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Publisher files

Researchers out to defend Android users from privacy thieves

Google Android privacy software would give smartphone users more control over personal data

From best-in-class virtualization management to highly automated, optimized data centers

Aberdeen report outlines four steps to virtualization management success

Epsilon breach: When should almost public info be private?

Breach at Epsilon Data Management exposed lots of email addresses - is that important?

Privacy activist to challenge BT, Phorm decision

Alexander Hanff will file for a judicial review of a decision not to prosecute BT and Phorm

Vaporizing communications: Splitting the message

Did Google lie about FISMA? … Lie is such an ugly word

Updated: GSA statement would appear to give Google a bit of wiggle room

Not Star Trek but scientists find better way to see warped space, time

Star Trek used a Transporter to bend time and space, CalTech and Cornell spy real world warping

Hacker ‘handshake’ hole found in common firewalls

NSS Labs tested Cisco, Check Point, Fortinet, Juniper, the Palo Alto Networks, and SonicWall firewalls

Microsoft delivers monster security update for Windows, IE

Experts urge everyone to patch SMB bug pronto before hackers release another Conficker-style worm