The vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Information Services software undoubtedly seems like a gaping hole to administrators at Ball State University. Their servers were breached soon after Microsoft confirmed the WebDAV vulnerability.

KAV (Klingon Anti-Virus) is a free, Klingon language version of Sophos’ Threat Detection Test. This article includes a link to the download.

The Gumblar web attack has changed its stripes. Instead of downloading its malware from the "gumblar" domain, it’s now using a "martuz" domain. This article includes links to sites with information on identifying the parasite.

Internet Information Server (IIS) versions 5.0-6.0 are affected by a vulnerability allowing an attacker to gain access to sensitive data using WebDAV. Microsoft has offered workarounds to close the flaw.

For those who love type, Microsoft Word 2010 will offer the ability to use OpenType ligatures. This page shows how to enable the feature.

Microsoft’s Internet Information Services version 6 has a bug that could allow a simple attack to succeed in reaching password protected files and folders without using the password.

There were a few features of Windows Vista that people hated. Microsoft got the message. The changes have been incorporated into Windows 7 and a few new features have been added.

Beginning in July, SharePoint Server 2010 beta will open to an invitation-only group of customers. This will allow Microsoft to focus on specific deployment scenarios.

A new way of separating valid e-mail from spam may allow mail admins a breather. The new technique involves calculations based on e-mail timestamps.

You may have noticed that Connected Photographer has been offline for the past few days. It’s back, and what happened makes for quite a story.

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