Michael Chait

Furthering its push into the corporate search market, Mountain View, Calif.-based Google Monday unveiled its latest search appliance model, along with updates to its existing corporate search technology aimed at easing deployment of its search services in secure computing environments. Following its entry into the corporate search market earlier this year with the Linux-based GB-1001 […]

Microsoft is warning system administrators Thursday morning that a new vulnerability is lurking in a FrontPage extention tool known as a SmartHTML interpreter that could be exploited to allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service attack or run the code of their choice their servers. Microsoft has said that FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) 2000 and […]

According to new research released Friday morning, companies that rode in on the “dot-com boom” of the late ’90s are still feeling the woes of the “dot-com bust” harder than their associates at more established companies. The new report, issued by VentureOne, showed that venture-backed companies that received initial financing in 1999 and 2000 are […]

After a new outcry over a flaw that could allow a user to “bug” a Word document being sent to another user for review, Microsoft says it is working on a fix. In a statement issued Thursday, the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant said it would definitely repair the problem, but was unclear whether it would […]

Fears about a new Microsoft Windows e-mail worm themed around the September 11 terrorist attacks were allayed this morning by a security firm’s report, which said the worm had too many technical flaws to do much damage. “This seems to be a poor attempt from a wannabe virus writer to exploit the commemoration of September […]

Network security firm Foundstone said Thursday that it had discovered a significant security vulnerability in PGP, the de facto commercial encryption software. The flaw stems from an overflow that allows the attacker to take control of the recipient’s computer, elevating his or her privileges on the organization’s network According to the firm, the vulnerability could […]

In a clear sign that the light at the end of the tunnel for the tech industry may still be in the distance, Sun Microsystems yesterday warned that sales for its first quarter will fall short of expectations. In a conference call with analysts, Sun’s Chief Financial Officer Steve McGowan said its revenues for the […]

Microsoft Thursday said that a new flaw discovered in Windows could allow a hacker to conduct a denial of service (define) attack on your computer. The vulnerability comes from an ActiveX control known as the Certificate Enrollment Control, which allows web-based certificate enrollments. By design, this type of control should be able to install new […]

With the company putting all of it weight behind .NET, Microsoft is hoping to ease some of developers’ concerns about Visual Studio’s role in the .Net framework by providing details on the direction of its development products. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant Thursday provided a road map for future versions of its flagship development tool, […]

Microsoft Corp. today released the second service pack for Office XP, combining bounties of updates to the company’s suite of office software into a single package. The service pack 2 (SP2) is available as a 15mb download from Microsoft’s site or can be picked ordered on CD-ROM. The pack will be a collection of all […]