Dennis Fisher

Citrix Systems Inc. on Tuesday announced that it is acquiring a small SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) VPN provider, a move that company officials hope will position Citrix as a major player in the remote-access market. The purchase of Net6 Inc. for $50 million puts Citrix smack in the middle of a rapidly expanding and fiercely […]

A new version of the Sober worm appeared on the Internet early Friday morning and already it is having quite a bit of success infecting users in Europe through the use of social engineering. Sober.J arrives in an e-mail message that appears to be a returned-mail error message, telling the user that an e-mail sent […]

A group that earlier this year offered for sale the source code of a popular intrusion detection system now is selling what it says is a copy of the source code for a recent version of Cisco Systems Inc.’s PIX firewall. A member of the Source Code Club, which first surfaced in July, posted a […]

Two new versions of the venerable Bagle worm are on the loose, infecting PCs and opening backdoors as they go. The pair are virtually indistinguishable from one another and also are quite similar to most of the other Bagle variants. The main area of concern for enterprises is the fact that both Bagle.BC and Bagle.BD […]

As vendors pour into the internal security market, Check Point Software Technologies Inc., among the first entrants in this space, continues to refine its line of InterSpect appliances with a host of new features. The company this week will release Version 2.0 of the appliances’ software, which now includes features that enable the boxes to […]

While the large anti-virus vendors continue to spend millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours churning out updated signature files, a Utah-based startup this week plans to unveil an entirely new e-mail security solution that needs no signatures and is capable of trapping malicious messages before they reach users’ desktops. Avinti Inc.’s iSolation Server takes […]

More than two years after company officials claimed Microsoft Corp. would emphasize security over features in all products, the whopping update to the company’s Windows XP operating system is being hit for introducing new vulnerabilities. IT administrators and security experts who have had a chance to install, work with and investigate the changes Windows XP […]

They say all good things come to those who wait. For Microsoft Corp. customers, the wait for the major security upgrades in Service Pack 2 for Windows XP is nearly over as the company on Friday released the code for the update to manufacturing. This is the last step in the process before the service […]

As many security researchers feared after analyzing the code for MyDoom.O, a second, related attack began in earnest Tuesday with a new piece of code using the back door installed by MyDoom.O to spread itself and launch a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack against Microsoft.com. MyDoom.O, also known as MyDoom.M or MyDoom.M@mm, installs a […]

Microsoft Corp. officials on Monday said that the company plans to release its long-awaited Service Pack 2 for Windows XP in August. Until today, the company had said only that the update would be available this summer. Microsoft last month released a second release candidate of the service pack, an unusual move for an interim […]

Frustrated by the barrage of security problems surrounding Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer, some enterprises are looking for ways to prevent employees from using the dominant browser and are casting about for alternatives. But as they turn to removing the browser as a safeguarding measure, some are finding the task not so simple. In fact, doing […]

Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday will roll out its OpenView Select Identity provisioning product, a new offering based on technology the company acquired earlier this year. The solution is one of the first pieces of HP’s new security strategy, a plan that comprises offerings in trustworthy systems, proactive security management and identity management. Like many of its […]