Everyday the media reports countless security incidents involving confidential data which has been lost or stolen. If your company has a strict AUP (Acceptable Usage Policy) which clearly specifies the company ownership over the computers, data and network traffic, then you can deploy intelligent surveillance software such as KGB Employee Monitor.

Microsoft security engineers are investigating attacks against a recently published Word vulnerability which may lead to remote system compromise. The code execution vulnerability is caused by a buffer overrun in the Microsoft Jet Database, or msjet40.dll.

Microsoft's Mobile Operating Systems, Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows Mobile 6, attain the Common Criteria EAL 2+ Assurance Level; security certification accepted by 24 worldwide members.

The very popular  RealPlayer software is vulnerable to a heap corruption vulnerability that could put Windows users at risk of code execution Trojans , according to a warning from a security researcher.

The central database of a computer, also called the registry, has the capacity of accumulating a big amount of information, but it needs to be cleaned occasionally because unimportant data, stored along the time, can make the computer sluggish.