Microsoft was informed of the vulnerability in March 2008. A month later it published workarounds. A year later, still no patch. Now hackers are starting to pry into vulnerable systems.

While Microsoft touts the security of Internet Explorer 8, it took only seconds for Nils to hack his way in during the CanSecWest security conference’s Pwn2Own contest.

Tasktop Technologies has announced the release of Mylyn 3.1 and Tasktop Pro 1.4. New features in Tasktop include the ability to automate time tracking by synchronizing actual time spent working with JIRA, Bugzilla and other popular issue trackers.

Microsoft’s replacement for the Internet Security and Acceleration Server is the Threat Management Gateway (TMG). Now in beta 2, TMG is designed for mid-sized companies.

The Prime Minister of India decided to drop Outlook Express in favor of SquirrelMail after a computer virus caused messages to vanish.

Spring ChicagoCon 2009 by TDCC features security training followed by a 2-Day Ethical Hacking Conference prepares attendees for a career. This year the focus is on hacking humans A.K.A. Social Engineering.

The ability to disable Internet Explorer 8 apparently isn’t going to be enough to end Microsoft’s problems with European Union regulators.

According to some, the release candidate of Windows 7 will be released to the public during the last week of May. A small group of testers may get an interim build before May.

This free webcast is being presented by Dux Raymond Sy on Friday, April 10 at 10 am PT. You will learn how to create reports with custom views, use SharePoint alerts, and more.

Quick-PDF Software released PDF to WORD ver.2.1, a new version of the converter for quick export of Adobe PDF documents to Microsoft Word RTF format. PDF to WORD will help home and office users to convert protected PDF files to documents that can be edited in any word processor.