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Facebook under attack: The spam and phishing threat

News Kelly also said Facebook had come under attempted cross-site scripting (CSS) and SQL injection attacks, but that the security layer in Facebook's system was successful in intervening and notifying Kelly's security team of such attempts.

Tags: phishing, spam, facebook

[23 Apr 2008]

Microsoft strikes back at open source critics

News Microsoft said, however, its new interoperability principles operate across its high-volume products: Windows Vista (including the .Net Framework), Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Office 2007, Exchange Server 2007 and Office SharePoint...

Tags: microsoft, open source, .net framework, volume

[18 Mar 2008]

Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'

News An early warning of this insecurity in modern ATMs came in 2003 when the Nachi Internet worm infiltrated "secure" networks and infected ATMs from two financial institutions, while the SQL Slammer worm indirectly shut down 13,000 Bank of America ATMs.

Tags: atm, banks, malware, box

[04 Mar 2008]

Microsoft to embrace open-source and says won't sue

News Microsoft said the pledge will ultimately extend to Windows Vista, the .NET Framework, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Office 2007, Exchange Server 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007. Microsoft has announced changes in its business...

Tags: microsoft, sue, open source, licence

[22 Feb 2008]

Demand for tech workers hits six-year high

News The REC predicts systems administrators and technical sales support staff, as well as people trained in SQL-sever and Javascript, will be the most in demand and hardest roles to fill. Hot skills during 2007 that were increasingly listed as...

Tags: skills, rec, salaries, it workers

[08 Jan 2008]

Microsoft reaches Windows Server 2008 milestone

News Microsoft plans to launch the product, along with SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, at an event in Los Angeles. Microsoft has reached another milestone on the road to the release of Windows Server 2008.

Tags: server, microsoft, cnet news, los angeles

[06 Dec 2007]

Russian malware gang goes to ground

News Genes added some Brazilian sites and some US government ones, which he declined to identify specifically, had been compromised through SQL injection attacks to make them point to other RBN sites compromised with malware.

Tags: malware, asia, security, gangs

[12 Nov 2007]

Gates: 'My work here is not yet done'

News The digital watches that use Microsoft's Smart Personal Object Technology have remained geek toys, and his dream of an all-new Windows file system based on SQL found itself on the cutting-room floor when Longhorn became Vista.

Tags: voice recognition, touchscreen, microsoft, bill gates

[19 Oct 2007]

Mortgage lender banks on finance software

News OneLife has also purchased licences for CODA's XL reporting tool and its Assets module, and will run the CODA Financials on a Microsoft Windows server-based system with a Microsoft SQL Server database.

Tags: accounting, financial

[16 Aug 2007]

Microsoft.co.uk defaced

News It is likely that Microsoft.co.uk, which was breached on Wednesday, was subverted using SQL injection, according to security website Zone-H, which has also run a picture of the defacement. Most probably, the attacker exploited the site by means of...

Tags: hackers, deface, microsoft.co.uk, microsoft

[03 Jul 2007]

Betfair taps Romania for offshore software skills

News Some of the skills Betfair is tapping into in Romania include Microsoft .Net and SQL, Java and specialist areas such as mobile driver development. Online betting and gaming company Betfair has set up an offshore software development centre in...

Tags: romania, betfair

[28 Jun 2007]

Virgin Retail to save £500,000 with inventory system

News The retailer is using a Microsoft BizTalk business process management core, supported by an IBM merchandising system and an SQL database to boost sales reporting and inventory planning across its estate of 130 stores.

Tags: virgin, retail

[29 Mar 2007]

Xbox boosts Microsoft's bottom-line

News Microsoft said profits and sales were boosted by strong responses to the products it has launched in recent months, including the Xbox 360 and SQL Server. Microsoft reported first-quarter profits on Thursday that edged ahead of the company's forecast.

Tags: microsoft

[27 Oct 2006]

IT work ain't so bad after all

News So what's 800 lines of SQL between friends? A recent survey revealed that three-quarters of techies hate their jobs but an ensuing silicon.com leader told readers to count their blessings. Lots of people hate their jobs and IT is no worse than many...

Tags: it skills

[18 Aug 2006]

SOA part of PeopleSoft tools upgrade from Oracle

News The updated PeopleTools will expand its support to SQL Server 2005, Linux on IBM zSeries for PeopleTools Application Engine and PeopleTools Process Scheduler, and Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9. Oracle on Monday launched PeopleTools 8.48, an...

[18 Jul 2006]

Microsoft pledges aid for ageing PCs

News In some cases, though, Microsoft has taken more than three years to prepare an update - the recent release of SQL Server took five years; and Windows Vista is expected to debut early next year, more than five years after Windows XP.

Tags: windows fundamentals, microsoft, legacy

[13 Jul 2006]

Microsoft: Yes to online business services

News Microsoft also announced the early release of several products, including the beta version of Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 and community technology previews of SQL Server Anywhere and Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals.

Tags: microsoft, on-demand

[12 Jun 2006]

RFID viruses? Don't panic

News The academics also went on to create a proof-of-concept virus, which uses the track and trace tags to compromise middleware systems using a SQL injection attack. Dutch researchers have announced they have successfully created a virus capable of...

Tags: virus, rfid

[16 Mar 2006]

IT training all about the business

News Getting down to nuts-and-bolts, SQL Server 2005 and .NET 2 are the hot technical training areas du jour, according to Chapman and Buttriss. The hottest skill for IT professionals these days has nothing to do with bits and bytes - it's all about the...

Tags: sql server 2005, business skills, it skills gap, it skills

[25 Jan 2006]

Two new WMF flaws emerge

News A few years ago it was IIS, then SQL Server, then RPC, now it's the Windows Graphics Engine," he said. IIS is Internet Information Services (the web server part of Windows Server), SQL Server is Microsoft's database product, and RPC is the Remote...

Tags: windows flaw, wmf, security, microsoft windows

[10 Jan 2006]

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