Security

Critical design flaw in Active Directory could allow for a password change

Microsoft contends the general issue has been long-known, but Israel-based Aorato has developed a working attack

Amazon: Our new doc-sharing cloud service is enterprise-grade

Managed document storage/sharing services could be the piece of the puzzle that enterprises have been missing

Future Java 7 security patches will work on Windows XP despite end of official support

Windows XP users will continues to receive Java 7 security updates until at least April 2015, Oracle says

Black Tuesday patch KB 2962872 crashes InstallShield, causes slowdowns

Last Tuesday's KB 2962872 security roll-up for IE6 thru IE11 brings new problems, due to a bug affecting HTM files

Microsoft patches crash Dell Data Protection-Encryption and CMGShield

Black Tuesday patches cause blue screens of death on DDP-E encrypted machines, black recovery screens for CMGShield

Future Java 7 security patches will work on Windows XP despite end of official support

Too many cooks may worsen the OpenSSL mess

Multiple and potentially competing efforts to fix OpenSSL expose the sheer difficulty of the task

Horrifying confessions of a security sleuth

How bad is computer security in the business world? Complete disarray, if you believe a friend of mine who's worked in the industry forever. Behold his hair-raising tales

Oracle to release 115 security patches

Java SE and Fusion Middleware alone will receive nearly 50 fixes

Google to tour Europe to discuss right-to-be-forgotten ruling

Testing a removal request is a 'very vague and subjective' process, Google's chief legal officer said