Five Important Security Resolutions for Adobe

The year was 2001. Code Red, the Microsoft Web Server worm was running rampant and underscored every security professional’s perception that Microsoft products were both a necessary evil and a serious security liability. Fast-forward to nine years later. Microsoft products still contain more than...

When should Microsoft backport security advances?

From PC Mag Larry Seltzer Microsoft has made much of the security advances in their recent products but some people ask why these are not incorporated into their earlier products. The basic answer is that it usually would come at a cost that users aren’t willing to pay in a software patch, but ma...