Software Security
Microsoft released a patch for to fix several critical security gap of its Office productivity suite and warned that hackers can use RTF (Rich Text Format) e-mails to initiate code execution type attacks.
IBM recently introduced security assessments solution that will make cloud computing safer. It was aimed to target the security challenges of cloud computing with the help of new cloud security planning and assessment services and managed services to help clients secure their clouds.
The IT consultancy firm Denim Group who develops security software and helps organizations to assess and lower the security risk, provides guidance to software development teams in terms of better collaboration with the security teams.
As per the recent survey carried out by Net Applications, Internet Explorer IE 8 is the most popular web browser in the world that overtook IE 6 whichdropped at22% market share as of Jan 2010.