Terry Childs is the systems administrator who locked the computer systems of San Francisco and refused to turn over the password. He’s now been in jail, without a trial, for 18 months. Three of four charges against him have been dropped, but the District Attorney isn’t even researching the issues on the remaining charge.

Microsoft created COFEE to help police collect digital information at crime scenes. Hackers have now released Decaf to counter the Microsoft tool.

If you use Office 2003 with Microsoft’s Rights Management Service (RMS) you may find yourself locked out of your documents. The Information Rights Management (IRM) certificate expired, causing RMS to lock the files. Microsoft has now issued a fix for the problem.

It would seem that this site, used for activating Microsoft Business Solutions software, has been misnamed. The site has been unavailable since December 7.

01 Communique released version 1.2 of the I’m OnCall remote support solution with support for Windows 7 (32 and 64-bit versions) and Mac Snow Leopard operating systems.

The Indeo codec has been part of Windows for 17 years. Instead of trying to patch the vulnerabilities in the old software, Microsoft has elected to block it from being used by Internet Explorer or Windows Media Player.

Automation Anywhere has released Testing Anywhere, a new automated testing solution designed to simplify software testing. Testing Anywhere allows testers and developers to test applications, websites, objects, controls and GUI front-ends, using a single tool.

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Once again Microsoft is being blamed for waiting for months before patching a vulnerability. It appears Microsoft had been notified of a bug in IE6 and IE7 back in June but waited until after a researcher posted exploit code before investigating.

Libraries, AeroSnap, Gadgets, and more are "hidden" in the Win7 operating system. This article shows you how to find, and use, these features.