With its monthly security updates due out Tuesday, Microsoft has a new problem to worry about: Word flaws.

The software vendor on Sunday confirmed a report that criminals are e-mailing maliciously crafted Word attachments to victims. While these attacks are not widespread, they are dangerous because the attacker could run unauthorized software on the victim's computer if the attachment is opened.

Test of new browsers shows IE 7 has beefed up security but trails Firefox 2.0 in features and Web development compliance.

Five years in the making, Internet Explorer 7 has a distinctive new look and an improved security posture, but our initial test shows that the Microsoft browser still nips at the heels of Firefox’s feature set and its Web development standards support.

Testing of Vista Beta 2 shows deployment pain will yield security gain.
 
 In our testing of Microsoft's recently released Vista Beta 2 code, we found that in terms of its revamped client-side networking infrastructure and policy-based security controls, it's in lock step with Microsoft's Longhorn server code.

Testing of Vista Beta 2 shows deployment pain will yield security gain.

In our testing of Microsoft's recently released Vista Beta 2 code, we found that in terms of its revamped client-side networking infrastructure and policy-based security controls, it's in lock step with Microsoft's Longhorn server code.

Bigger, better TagmaStore array adds iSCSI support Hitachi Data Systems last week said it has enhanced its largest storage arrays with software and hardware that gives the TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform (USP) a 25% performance boost.

The company has enhanced the microcode and added optional 4Gbit/sec Fibre Channel controllers, iSCSI connections and new load-balancing capabilities among the processors to allow the TagmaStore to operate at 2.5 million I/Os per second.

Trend in active-minded security wares expands with Aussie offering

New security software developed by researchers at the University of Melbourne will bring to market an appliance that can adapt to changes in network traffic and block security breaches before they happen.