Although the overall number of vulnerabilities being discovered in software appears to be leveling off or even dropping, two recent reports on Web security say that the overwhelming majority of Web sites studied still have unpatched vulnerabilities that could expose visitors to malicious code.
The latest beta includes features designed to match user 'flow' while surfing the Web, says the IE8 dev team.
With support for all versions Java, many languages (including Ruby on Rails, Groovy and now PHP) and a number of frameworks, analysts say that the open source, Sun-backed NetBeans is becoming strong alternative to Eclipse.
The product aims to avoid duplicate records by checking for inconsistencies.
The writing's on the wall, it seems, for purveyors of security point solutions. Gone is the day of the best-of-breed anti-virus, firewall, e-mail security or encryption vendors. These days, it's a security suite play.
Last week, market watcher Gartner Inc. issued a report in which it projected that IT spending should eclipse $3.4 trillion this year. That's a year-over-year growth rate of 8 percent.
The open source Linux-based operating system features integration with Google's online apps.
Check Point Software updated its Web security software suite.
Businesses may have been slow to adopt Microsoft Windows Vista, but expect that to change by late 2008 to 2009, according to a recent Forrester Research report.
Delivering hosted solutions to businesses takes planning, and this report describes some of the steps to take.
A critical advisory was issued after hackers tampered with the open source Linux company's Web site.
UrlScan 3.0, a security add-on to Microsoft's IIS Web server, is now available in its Release-to-Web version.
Source code for the Java ME-based light-weight UI toolkit released to the java.net community.
Microsoft plans to invest further in its Novell SuSE Linux interop deal.
The iReport dashboard for JasperReports is the belle of the ball when it comes to NetBeans downloads.
Microsoft has made substantial changes to its virtualization licensing program, changes that will lower the cost of using virtualization for many customers.
A study describes best practices for keeping down security costs and woes.
The new tool is designed to help managers assess code quality before it's shipped.
Solution adds graphical reporting support for SharePoint users.
Ruling paves the way for Microsoft's Office Open XML-based spec to be released as an international document format standard.