Dennis Fisher

Cisco Systems Inc. on Monday continued its push into the security market by acquiring Riverhead Networks Inc., a small developer of tools to prevent denial-of-service attacks, for $39 million in cash. Cisco plans to add Riverhead to its Internet Switching Business Unit and use the company’s technology to enhance its Threat Defense System portfolio of […]

Vulnerabilities weaken two of Symantec Corp.’s more popular security applications, Norton AntiSpam and Norton Internet Security, researchers have found. Both flaws enable attackers to run code on remote machines. The two weaknesses, one in each product, are similar in that they both involve ActiveX controls. The vulnerability in Norton Internet Security and Norton Internet Security […]

For the third time in less than three years, a federal judge has ordered the Department of the Interior to disconnect a large number of its employees from the Internet over concerns about the agency’s security practices. The order, issued Monday in United States District Court in Washington, is part of a longstanding conflict between […]

While the number of vulnerabilities found in software essentially has stabilized, the flaws are increasingly easy to exploit—and more often than not, quite severe—according to a new report released on Monday. Furthermore, as bad as the vulnerability problem is, the virus plague currently tormenting Internet users may well be worse. In the second half of […]

Not wanting to be left behind by rivals IBM, Novell Inc. and others in the security game, Hewlett-Packard Co. on Thursday announced that it has agreed to acquire TruLogica Inc., a small identity management vendor. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. TruLogica, based in Dallas, is known in the industry for taking an […]

AirMagnet Inc. on Monday released a new version of its WLAN security solution, which now is capable of detecting, tracing and blocking rogue access points in real time to help protect the integrity of corporate wireless networks. AirMagnet Distributed 4.0 comprises a set of remote sensors throughout the customer’s network, along with a central server. […]

After a decade of focusing nearly exclusively on defending the perimeter, security vendors have begun to divert more of their attention to the last frontier of digital security: the soft, chewy center of corporate networks. The problem for these vendors isn’t so much about keeping attackers out; they leave that to the firewall and IDS […]

As overhyped technologies go, PKI was among the all-time greats. Five years ago, it was being touted as the cure-all for enterprise security woes and an absolute necessity for organizations of any size. But after years of failed pilot projects, maddeningly complex implementation problems and vendor flameouts, customers abandoned public-key infrastructure, and advocates of the […]

RSA Security Inc. will unveil a finished version of its RFID “Blocker Tag” technology that prevents radio-frequency identification tags from being read. The technology, which RSA plans to demonstrate at its namesake conference this week in San Francisco, is one of the industry’s first attempts to secure the anticipated oceans of consumer tracking data to […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to unveil two new security services next week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, both of which are designed to help customers resist potential and ongoing attacks. The announcements will be a part of Hewlett-Packard’s big showing at the conference, which also includes a speech by Chief Privacy Officer Barbara Lawler, […]

In another sign that the security market—and technology sector in general—is on the rebound, Juniper Networks Inc. on Monday agreed to acquire security appliance maker NetScreen Technologies Inc. for $4 billion in stock. The purchase price is a premium of more than 50 percent for NetScreen’s shareholders. The company’s stock was trading at $26.40 at […]

Microsoft Corp. on Monday finally released a patch for a dangerous vulnerability that lets attackers trick Internet users into visiting malicious sites. The flaw has been public knowledge for some time, but Microsoft failed to include a fix for it with January’s scheduled patch releases. The vulnerability has to do with the way IE parses […]