Q&A: David Finn, Microsoft’s anti-piracy enforcement chief, discusses consumer risks and how to take action if counterfeit software lands on your computer. Consumer reports of counterfeit software, often riddled with viruses, have doubled over the past two years, and today Microsoft is holding a...

A Chinese court has issued tough sentences to members of a huge software counterfeiting ring, which distributed more than $US2 billion ($A3 billion) worth of fake Microsoft goods, the company said. The court in the southern city of Shenzhen on Wednesday sentenced 11 people to jail terms of up to six...

Microsoft Corp.'s profit growth may be stunted this year by a resurgence of software piracy in China, the second-biggest personal-computer market after the U.S. More than 8 out of 10 pieces of software in use are copied illegally in China, and money lost to piracy worldwide will increase this year...

Microsoft piracy experts tell patents to tell their kids to behave themselves when they are online New research released by Microsoft today suggests that the UK is a nation of unrepentant pirates, who know what they are doing is wrong but just do not care. Microsoft warned that when downloading copy...

As part of a comprehensive effort to address piracy of its products, Microsoft today announced that the company will increase efforts against piracy and outlined new steps being taken to protect Windows Vista from ongoing and known counterfeiting threats. The upcoming Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1...

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Welcome to a new blog from Microsoft. The focus of this blog is likely to be a little different from most other blogs you'll see on blogs.msdn.com. Microsoft employs some of the best hackers in the world and actively recruits them and develops them. They work on all kinds of projects, whether it be in...

In this video the hacker demonstrates how he hacked the MS UK patner website. Download At Source

WindowsNow Blog: In a very interesting post on the Google Online Security Blog analyzes which web servers are responsible for the world's malware . Microsoft IIS 6 tied with Apache at 49% for compromised servers, even though Apache has a 40% lead in deployments. Apache makes up at least 50% of the malware...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer witnessed the signing of an agreement Monday requiring all of Vietnam's government offices to use licensed computer software in a step to curb rampant piracy. "The agreement demonstrates very strong commitments of the government of Vietnam," in protecting intellectual property...