The software giant meets with security experts in the midst of widespread criticism over serious software flaws and the company's attempts to rein in hackers.
The company raises its threat rating for a security flaw in its Web browser to "critical," in response to criticism of its initial assessment of the hole's danger.
Scott Culp, director of Microsoft's security response centre, has of late been in a feisty mood, calling the security industry and hackers into account for distributing what he says is dangerous code.
A hacker has surreptitiously posted a program on the Net which gives remote attackers complete control of vulnerable servers running Microsoft's popular Web server software.
Australia has been alerted to the use of IRC robots to compromise networks, which, in conjunction with the recent release of the exploit code for MS IIS vulnerabilities, could cause Web chaos.
Microsoft has announced the discovery of four new flaws in IIS and has created a cumulative IIS patch that provides fixes for these and other vulnerabilities.
Recent findings suggest that open-source advocates' boastings of superior security over proprietary software were premature. Now the open-source community must conduct its own 'trustworthy' campaign.
In the name of education, Microsoft invites security researchers to infiltrate Windows systems.
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