IT auditors examine accounts just like their financial auditing counterparts. Instead of trial balances, they look at system user accounts to determine who signed on when and who did what. But what about who's logging into what account and when?
This weekend Microsoft announced the release of High Performance Computing Server 2008 (HPC Server 2008) Beta 2, the next-generation version of Compute Cluster Server 2003. HPC Server 2008 is built on the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008 but is
Microsoft's announcement that it will release SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (SP3) this summer raises the question: What's the status of SQL Server 2008?
Yinglian Xie and Fang Yu, researchers at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, have devised a unique way to detect computers transformed into zombie drones for transmitting spam e-mail.