Friday, August 10th, 2007
The battle continues between Microsoft and IBM over the right open standard approach to service-oriented architectures (SOA). This article from CNET discusses the continuing struggle to agree on a open SOA format. Both Microsoft and IBM are major players in ECMA, each one supports a different format, IBM favors
OpenDocument Format (ODF), an ISO-certified, open-source standard. [...]
Friday, November 10th, 2006
On November 14th, Microsoft will release a important bulletin with a “critical” fix for a security hole in its XML Core Services software, the company stated on its Web site Thursday morning. This particular vulnerability is a zero-day flaw that’s already being exploited for attacks. This fix is part of their monthly security patch strategy [...]
Sunday, November 5th, 2006
Their are reports of a vulnerability in the XMLHTTP 4.0 ActiveX Control for Windows. This control is part of Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0. Microsoft reports that it is aware of limited attacks that are attempting to use the reported vulnerability. See link below:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/927892.mspx
Monday, February 27th, 2006
In this article Kim Cameron the chief identity architect at Microsoft talks about the on-coming big bang in identity management. He states “The Higgins Project looks to be a step forward in solving the problem surrounding online identities”, said Kim “From what I’ve seen, this is a very positive development, I think we are really [...]
Monday, February 27th, 2006
Security Focus reports on the growing concern by the leaders of technology companies including Microsoft, RSA, SUN and others about the security of private identities. These leaders expressed their concern at the recent RSA Conference held in San Jose earlier this month. One of the key highlights from these leaders comments is the need to [...]
