A judge’s ruling last week that a generic term like "windows" cannot be trademarked has not stopped Microsoft from protecting their product.

Along with the theft and Internet posting of Windows code, Microsoft suffered another blow in the form of a security exploit in its Internet Explorer browser.

Ibiza is a new trojan that takes advantage of a currently unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer. See this piece on SearchSecurity for more information.

A report from SearchWin2000 says that source code from Microsoft’s Windows 2000 and NT 4.0 has been leaked onto the Internet.

The beta release for Software Update Service 2.0, scheduled for release in September of 2003, has yet to make an appearance. Margie Semilof of SearchWin2000 examines the delay.

Microsoft has been granted a US patent for XML-based script automation. See this article on CNET for complete information on the patent grant.

Marguerite Reardon of CNET discusses how at the corporate level, spam isn’t just a nuisance, but a security risk as well.

This article from WindowsSecurity.com examines how to use Microsoft’s Software Update Service to keep your organization up to date.

MSExchange.org examines email security and certificate authority with Microsoft’s Exchange Server 2003.

According to this report from SearchWin2000, the ASN.1 flaw recently patched by Microsoft is the biggest Microsoft flaw ever found and possibly the biggest flaw ever. Marc Maiffret of eEye Digital Security says the flaw was reported to Microsoft 200 days before the patch was released.