The U.S. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command was defaced Monday morning, with presumably legitimate screenshots of database files from a major airline and bank. Using a common gateway interface (CGI) hack, a defacing team calling themselves the

Microsoft has issued a security patch to two versions of its SQL Server software that were vulnerable to attackers. Microsoft said the patch was for a buffer overrun vulnerability which affected its SQL Server 7.0 and 2000 database software. In advisory

The Web services industry got a boost with the introduction Thursday of a new security standard by three high-tech leaders. Microsoft IBM and VeriSign released WS-Security to the world, putting to rest some of the questions surrounding the adoption of

Seizing on the TechEd 2002 show in New Orleans as a platform, Microsoft Corp. Wednesday unveiled several key alliances in support of its .NET Web services platform, as well as several products designed to round out its offerings. On the alliance side

Microsoft released Wednesday its latest security patch affecting bug-prone Internet Information Server's active server pages (ASP) function. This is the second, all-encompassing IIS patch for the software giant, a company that's come under heat for

After releasing the beta in January, Microsoft Corp. Wednesday unveiled the latest version of Commerce Server 2002. The company is busy reinventing its line of .NET Enterprise Server software as part of its Web services strategy, and Commerce Server

Looking to beef up the XML for Analysis (XML/A) specification -- a messaging interface for online analytical processing (OLAP) and data-mining applications -- Microsoft Corp. and Hyperion Solutions Corp. said Monday that SAS Institute Inc. will join them

Microsoft Corp. trumpeted a major victory in the telecom market Wednesday, announcing that Deutsche Telekom -- Europe's largest telecommunications company -- is adopting its Microsoft .NET Platform for its mobile and solutions businesses. Meanwhile, SAP