Apple issued a security fix for its QuickTime multimedia software that addressed 11 vulnerabilities of which 9 could have been used to gain remote control of the victim's system.

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. 

Sybase iAnywhere announced the next generation of its handheld security technology, introducing a new architecture that offers major advancements in user performance and battery life consumption. Designed specifically to take advantage of the latest capabilities in Windows Mobile, the Information Anywhere Suite updated Afaria security component enables virtually instantaneous encryption and decryption of data.

BitDefender, Trend Micro and Check Point must be updated before working with Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1). This is the warning coming from Microsoft.

The ETA for this major update is three weeks. An updated list (which
includes BitDefender AV and BitDefender Internet Security, version 10;
Trend Micro Internet Security 2008; Zone Alarm Security Suite, version
7.1.078; and Jiangmin KV Antivirus, versions 10 and 2008) of
third-party software that doesn't work with Vista SP1 showed that some
security suites will be excluded from launching once with the
installation of the service pack.

Once with the idea of collaborating with other software makers, Microsoft changed its business practices. It included, among the future partners, the other software providers and the open-source communities in the same time. More than this, the company’s executives elaborated new strategies and announced a proper documentation, in order to help these partnerships.

Microsoft maintains the announcement that Vista is the most secure version of Windows it has ever released. According to the company the security of Vista is superior to that of XP. This is partially owed to the introduction of User Account Control (UAC), intended to prevent users logged in without administrator rights continuously encountering restrictions.