The number of new software security vulnerabilities identified by security experts, hackers and others during the first eight months of this year has already exceeded the total recorded for all of 2005, according to Internet Security Systems.
Ellen Messmer | 10 Oct | Read more
IBM on Wednesday announced its intent to acquire Internet Security Systems for US$1.3 billion in an all-cash deal expected to be completed by year-end.
Ellen Messmer | 24 Aug | Read more
After security researcher Joanna Rutkowska demonstrated how it's possible to circumvent security in Microsoft's Vista beta software and install a rootkit called Blue Pill, Microsoft said it intends to find ways to stop both potential threats before Vista ships.
Ellen Messmer | 07 Aug | Read more
Amid roadside bombs from insurgents, the U.S. military has rolled out a satellite-based network for the Iraqi police that uses VoIP phones and Microsoft servers more reminiscent of an office in Boise than in Baghdad.
Ellen Messmer | 26 Jun | Read more
Telecommuting has become a way of life as more companies let employees work from home to do jobs that might otherwise be done on corporate premises. As a result, IT managers are adapting security policies to encompass home PCs.
Ellen Messmer | 19 Apr | Read more
The StopBadware.org group, which was launched in January with the goal of becoming an online "hall of shame" for spyware and questionable adware, has begun naming software applications it recommends users think twice about before installing.
Ellen Messmer | 23 Mar | Read more
Though the technology may still be in the lab, Symantec says its plans for the future include the delivery of online protection services that prevent phishing and identity theft while also warning about spyware-infested Web sites.
Ellen Messmer | 08 Feb | Read more
RSA Security late last year acquired privately held Cyota, which offers online security and anti-fraud services to help financial institutions protect consumer accounts. CEO Art Coviello recently sat down with Ellen Messmer to discuss the Cyota acquisition and RSA's views on the future of authentication. With its anti-fraud services for banks, Cyota is a very different type of business than RSA Security traditionally has been in with its SecurID products for two-factor authentication and the BSAFE encryption toolkits.
Ellen Messmer | 14 Mar | Read more
Vulnerability management starts with tools that assess security in network gear and applications, but it's a road that forks, one way leading to host- or agent-based scanners and the other to network-based or agentless scanners.
Ellen Messmer | 13 Dec | Read more
The Los Angeles division of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation Thursday arrested a 20-year-old man on charges that he illegally made thousands of dollars by setting up a botnet of compromised computers to sell them for hacking and spam purposes.
Ellen Messmer | 07 Nov | Read more
The security industry has had a hard time defining spyware, much less eliminating it. But according to many, there's one type of spyware that's among the most dangerous: the botnet.
Ellen Messmer | 01 Nov | Read more
Wireless vendors are rolling out a new generation of handheld computers called smartphones for corporate users, but many network executives say they won't consider them until the means to manage and secure them are clear.
Ellen Messmer | 22 Aug | Read more
It's a topic of fierce debate among high-tech cognoscenti: What's more secure -- "open source" code such as Linux and Apache, or proprietary "closed source" operating systems and applications, Microsoft's in particular?
Ellen Messmer | 05 Jul | Read more
It was a requirement that come June, high-volume merchants and payment processors that do business on the Web and want to work with MasterCard International had better have conducted quarterly vulnerability assessments of their Web sites. MasterCard warned last year that it won't do business with them otherwise.
Ellen Messmer | 27 Jul | Read more
Network Associates and Symantec long to be more than anti-virus vendors. The rivals want to be one-stop security shops where businesses buy everything from intrusion prevention to spam control to firewalls.
Ellen Messmer | 15 Jun | Read more