Next week at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, security researcher Joanna Rutkowska promises to demonstrate how a malicious attacker, working remotely, could take control of the open-source Xen virtualization software.
Both will be released under BSD license; source code coming later this year.
The company issued patches for its OS and server products to address Domain Name Server vulnerabilities.
A Microsoft exec describes the company's open source outreach efforts, which is starting to gain a pulse.
Reports are coming in that an AT&T Domain Name System (DNS) server may have been compromised with malicious code that exploits a vulnerability reported earlier this month. This apparently is the first instance of the exploit in the wild.
Sonatype's upcoming m2eclipse plugin becomes an Eclipse Technology Project.
The operating system is being developed in stealth mode, but some describe it as a new "non-Windows" OS.
A recently uncovered flaw with the Oracle WebLogic server allows users to gain entry to the software's server without a user name or password.
Scrum has emerged as the most popular lightweight method according to Danube Technologies' founders.
Benefits of reusability and business agility touted.
Application development has many unexpected costs, but these costs can be reduced by automating certain production-line steps, according to Instantiations, a Java and Smalltalk engineering and consulting company.
Redmond contributes money and code to open source project.
A beta of this Web-based open source e-mail solution is now available.
You've already snapped up Microsoft-branded mice, keyboards and gaming consoles. Is a Microsoft data warehouse (DW) appliance in your future?
The product combines three tools to facilitate data integration in traditional and SOA environments.
The company issued a reminder to patch a Domain Name System flaw affecting some Windows products.
Tim O'Reilly, founder of O'Reilly Media, warns of dangers of some "Web 2.0" technologies at the OSCON conference this week.
Ballmer says company must seize opportunities in market worth trillions.
The Vista operating system still appears to not be catching on in the enterprise, 18 months after its initial release.
Larry Wall outlines vision during his annual "State of the Onion" speech at OSCON.