Brian Prince

WatchGuard Technologies has bought fellow security vendor BorderWare Technologies to build its e-mail and Web security business. The move, made for an undisclosed sum, will be officially announced Aug. 4. According to officials at WatchGuard, the acquisition expands the company’s footprint beyond its traditional network security and UTM (unified threat management) appliances. “BorderWare certainly brings […]

The iPhone SMS attack demonstrated this week at Black Hat shined a legitimate spotlight on something that has historically been the subject of more than a little FUD – smartphone security. For the past few years, security companies have tried to sell enterprises on the idea that they needed to be worried about smartphone security. […]

Apple has fixed the iPhone vulnerability highlighted at the Black Hat security conference yesterday. The update plugged a memory corruption issue in the decoding of SMS messages that could be exploited to remotely execute code on the phone. The vulnerability was put in the spotlight after a presentation by researchers Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner. […]

A British hacker’s latest attempt to block extradition to the United Stateshas failed. The British High Court ruled today that the case of Gary McKinnon, who stands accused of hacking NASA and other U.S.federal agencies, should go forward. It is the latest twist in a case that has stretched on for years. If McKinnon is […]

Adobe issued a patch to cover several security holes in its Flash Player software July 30, including a memory corruption issue that has been targeted by hackers. All together, the update fixes 12 vulnerabilities. The most critical among them is the memory corruption bug, which is believed to have been exploited by hackers since early […]

When the Network Solutions breach was reported last week, the usual buzz about whether or not the company was PCI-compliant began almost immediately. Similar talk surrounded the situations with Heartland Payment Systems, Hannaford Bros. and just about every other data breach that has happened since the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) was […]

McAfee announced July 30 that it has agreed to purchase security vendor MX Logic for $140 million to help build out its software-as-a-service business. MX Logic specializes in cloud-based e-mail and Web security, an area McAfee-as well as its chief rival, Symantec-has shown interest in. Less than two weeks ago, on July 20, McAfee announced […]

As always, the Black Hat security conference has put our collective eyes on the latest research. This time around, attendees walk away from the conference with a fresh set of concerns about everything from the smart grid to the X.509 authentication scheme. The event wraps up today, as its sister conference, DEFCON 17, kicks off […]

Sometimes it’s the little things. According to Microsoft, one of the bugs in the Active Template Library was the result of a typo. An ampersand, to be exact. “The extra ‘&’ character in the vulnerable code causes the code to write potentially untrusted data, of size cbSize, to the address of the pointer to the […]

Symantec saw profits drop year-over-year for the first quarter of fiscal 2010, as the company has found enterprises less willing to sign long-term deals. “On the enterprise side, some customers focused their spending on shorter-term contracts or maintenance renewals, resulting in fewer new license deals, but stronger deferred revenue,” Enrique Salem, CEO of Symantec, said […]