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Microsoft preps Windows security scanner
News For example, Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows XP, includes the company's Web server software, IIS 5.1. Called the Baseline Security Advisor, the program will scan Windows computers for unpatched programs, weak passwords, and...
[February 21, 2002, 8:57]
Microsoft Windows 2000 Patch: Indexing Service Cross Site Scripting
Downloads Indexing Services is a search engine that is integrated with Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 and Windows 2000 that allows browsers to perform full-text searches of Web sites. This update resolves the "Indexing Services Cross Site Scripting...
[November 5, 2000, 6:00]
Microsoft moves to integrate Windows with BIOS
Talkback I am pretty good at running Samba DC's (laugh, linux pretending to be windows), Apache (the worlds BEST http server (although harder to configure, but more secure than IIS by experience) along with many other LINUX services; but I am no C programmer.
[June 18, 2005, 6:48]
US Report: Microsoft warns of IIS security hole
News Remote Data Service is installed by default when IIS 4.0 is implemented using the Microsoft Windows NT Option Pack. Microsoft's IIS development team discovered that a component of Remote Data Service, DataFactory, allows an intruder who has gained...
[July 20, 1998, 6:40]
Microsoft patches Windows NT WebDAV flaw
News The original flaw allowed an online attacker to take control of a military server last March by using the World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Version (WebDAV) component of Microsoft's flagship Web server software, Internet Information...
[April 25, 2003, 8:11]
Microsoft patches ten IIS vulnerabilities
News Microsoft credits eEye Digital Security with discovering one of the vulnerabilities, and eEye presents some specific examples of the vulnerability on its Windows 2000 and NT4 IIS .ASP Remote Buffer Overflow page.
[April 29, 2002, 13:39]
Microsoft urges urgent action on Windows security hole
News Systems running Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 with IIS 4.0 or IIS 5.0 enabled are also affected by the vulnerability, which gives an intruder complete control over the target machine. Because of this, Microsoft recommends that all customers using IIS...
[June 20, 2001, 10:35]
Microsoft fixes critical server bugs
News Microsoft has been criticised for leaving too many security holes in software like the Outlook email client, the Internet Explorer browser, IIS and Windows. Microsoft recommends that IIS operators either download the patch separately or, if running...
[April 10, 2002, 16:31]
Exclusive: Major security flaw hits Microsoft
News A British security expert claims to have uncovered a major security flaw in Microsoft's Web server software, Internet Information Server 4 (IIS). Of most concern is the way these details can be seized: typing a simple URL into any browser makes it...
[January 27, 2000, 16:03]
Microsoft races to fix security hole
News Web servers using Microsoft's IIS 4.0 software are not affected by the flaw. Companies that have set up their Web server with the printing turned off -- as outlined in Microsoft's "IIS Security Checklist" guidelines -- or used the IIS Security...
[May 2, 2001, 8:32]
Microsoft patches new security flaws
News However, IIS 6 and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 are not affected by the flaws, he added. As for Microsoft's second bulletin, which addresses Windows Media Services, a flaw in one of the files associated with that software could allow someone to...
[May 29, 2003, 7:47]
Introducing Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0
White Papers One of the core Vista components is a new version of Microsoft's web server - Internet Information Services version 7.0 (IIS 7.0). IIS 7.0 will also be part of Windows Server "Longhorn", which is expected to ship in mid 2007.
[July 10, 2007, 1:00]
Security expert warns of 'token kidnapping' threat
News Hosting providers and IT professionals have been warned of a threat posed to Microsoft IIS web servers through exploitation of vulnerabilities in Microsoft operating systems. The technique works by elevating privileges through exploiting accounts...
[May 21, 2008, 15:33]
WebDAV flaw exposes Win2K systems running IIS 5.0
News According to Microsoft, this vulnerability does not affect Windows XP (IIS 5.1) or Windows NT 4.0 (IIS 2.0-4.0) systems. By having customer systems penetrated before you are even aware that there is a threat, and that's just what happened recently...
[March 19, 2003, 10:08]
Web at risk from new MS flaw
News As first reported by CNET News.com, the flaw occurs in a component of Microsoft's Internet Information Service (IIS) software that is installed on Web servers by default, said Marc Maiffret, chief hacking officer with eEye Digital Security, the...
[June 19, 2001, 8:30]
Firm exposes WinNT security hole
News Believing that Microsoft "was not giving the problem the attention it deserved," eEye released not only a description of the hole but two working demonstration programs that allow anyone to break into an NT server running IIS 4.0.
[June 17, 1999, 9:04]
Windows Server 2003 passes Solaris 9
News Microsoft's Web server software, including Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 -- the Web serving software that runs on Server 2003 -- and earlier editions, ranks second in Netcraft's survey, powering about 27 percent of the survey's roughly...
[April 14, 2003, 15:48]
Patch now or be sorry later
News Microsoft representatives claim that this is not a problem for IIS 5.0 on Windows 2000. For today's NT 4.0/IIS 4.0 administrators, Microsoft has released a patch that prevents Internet servers using Windows NT with IIS 4.0 from becoming targets.
[March 24, 2000, 11:09]
Is Microsoft losing its grip in Asia?
News Sadly, the never-ending task of downloading patches only seem to delay the inevitable, as new security holes--in Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) software, for example--are still being discovered.
[October 30, 2001, 9:15]
Why Microsoft Had to Support Linux in Virtualisation
Blog One of my colleagues at work also raised an eyebrow of surprise that Microsoft is also a Platinum Sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation, considering that Apache httpd is the biggest competitor to Microsoft's own IIS web server.
[July 21, 2009, 9:13]
