By Kevin McLaughlin, ChannelWeb  Microsoft on Tuesday (today) will issue its second out-of-band security patch of the year to deal with a zero day vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 that’s been used in targeted attacks for the past several weeks.Security update MS10-018 will patch the IE 6 and IE 7 vulnerability, which is caused by [...]

By Rick Whiting The computer hacker who carried out one of the largest computer data thefts in history has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.Albert Gonzalez had led a ring of hackers who stole more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers by breaking into computer systems run by such major retailers as TJX, [...]

By Kevin McLaughlin, ChannelWeb Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) on Wednesday gave the public a peek at Office Communications Server 14 and said the product is on track for launch by year’s end.At the VoiceCon conference in Orlando, Fla., Gurdeep Singh Pall, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Unified Communications Group gave a demonstration of OCS 14 and suggested that in three years, [...]

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By Joseph F. Kovar, ChannelWeb Seattle might be a great place to live thanks to the weather, the culture, and the job opportunities, but people worried about cybercrime may be much better off living in Detroit, according to a new study on the topic from Symantec(NSDQ:SYMC).
Symantec on Monday said that Seattle leads the country [...]