If you configured Web sites using the Privacy tab of Internet Options, you may wish to prevent users from...

The current economic recession has hit some high-tech firms hard. Some companies in particular seem to have taken hard blows ... to their ethical standards...

The noose around Microsoft Passport tightened a bit more this week when a privacy advocacy group asked the attorneys general of all 50 U.S. states to investigate whether the service exposes consumers to fraud, junk email and "identity theft." In a...

Zero-Knowledge Systems introduced a new suite of security tools under its Freedom software series. The Freedom Security and Privacy Suite includes Freedom Personal Firewall 3.1, Freedom Parental Control 3.1, and Freedom Privacy Protection 3.1...

Regardless of your feelings about Microsoft, it was a tough year for what I think of as the integrity of the company's products. Integrity encompasses several items, including basic security, privacy, and reliability, but also a general feeling of...

A set of consumer and privacy groups railed against the US government this week for not acting to investigate or block the sale of Windows XP, which Microsoft will release tomorrow. Microsoft competitors are backing some of the groups, which have...

The recent attacks against the United States have raised many concerns in the information security industry because of the changes these events might bring. For example, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said that terrorists use strong...

A. This error indicates that you've tried to use IEAK 6 without first installing Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 6, which the IEAK requires to access the updated wininet.dll file. To fix the problem, simply install IE 6. See Microsoft's Web site...

Have you checked out Microsoft Passport service? Passport is one of the core services for Microsoft .NET technology. Passport simplifies the sign-up and logon process for any of the Web sites that implement Passport technology. Passport works as...

As Microsoft's latest OS, Windows XP, rolls toward completion, an interesting array of competitors and special-interest groups are attacking the company and its new product in attempts to prevent XP's October release. Also caught up in the turmoil...