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A new version of the malware that crippled Windows PCs last February sidesteps safeguards designed to block rootkits from hijacking machines running 64-bit editions of Windows, researchers said Thursday. “A new era has officially dawned; the era of x64…

Fans of IronPython, IronRuby, and other dynamic languages on Microsoft’s .Net platform suffered a blow earlier this month with Jimmy Schementi’s announcement that he had left his job at Microsoft.

An unpatched problem with Windows applications is much worse than first thought, with hundreds of programs, not just 40, vulnerable to attack, a Slovenian security company said today. “It was a shocking surprise,” said Mitja Kolsek, CEO of Acros Securi…

Microsoft announced it will release a public beta of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) on Sept. 15, a little less than five weeks from now.

Microsoft warned customers this week that a record number of just-patched bugs will probably be exploited in the next 30 days.

People still running the now-retired Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) can trick the operating system into installing security updates, a researcher said Monday.

Microsoft has updated its bare-bones preview of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) for the last time, saying that the next release would be a beta build. Although Microsoft hasn’t named a release date for IE9′s beta, the six-to-eight week stretch between each …

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