Chris Gonsalves

With little fanfare, the White House Friday afternoon released the much debated National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, which calls on industry to show unprecedented cooperation with goverment agencies in the name of network security. The plan depends heavily on network operators and industry groups sharing with the government information on network attacks, security threats and […]

After pioneering the virtual IT department as a hosted service, Everdream Corp. is hoping to appeal to large enterprises by retooling its platform to give more control back to users. The company next month will roll out improvements to its namesake IT Management Platform that put features such as electronic software distribution and remote systems […]

Internet performance was returning to normal late Saturday in the wake of one of the fiercest cyber-assaults in recent memory, but security experts said the vast number of vulnerable machines means it will likely be some time before things are truly back to normal. And as IT administrators patched up their remaining unprotected servers, investigators […]

Sendo Holdings PLC is suing former partner Microsoft Corp., saying the software giant so wanted to rule the emerging market for Web-enabled phones that it conspired to steal Sendos trade secrets and tried to drive the British firm out of business. The suit, filed this week in federal district court in Texarkana, Texas, details what […]

Two of the states that balked at the settlement worked out between Microsoft Corp. and the U.S. Department of Justice will take on the software company themselves in an appeal that seeks stiffer punishment and greater control over the company for its monopolistic behavior. Massachusetts and West Virginia will join forces in the appeal. Massachusetts […]

Federal agents who raided a Quincy, Mass., software firm Thursday night continue to look for monetary connections to the al-Qaeda terrorist network, but sources say the firms software appears safe. Ptech Inc., a developer of business-process modeling software, was raided late Thursday night by U.S. Customs Service agents, according to law enforcement officials. But initial […]

At least one state that balked at the settlement worked out between Microsoft Corp. and the U.S. Department of Justice is preparing to take on the software giant alone in an appeal that seeks stiffer punishment and greater control over the company for its monopolistic behavior. In an afternoon press conference in Boston Friday, Massachusetts […]

A vulnerability in a popular, free implementation of the Secure Shell protocols that prompted a warning from the suites developers was quickly capped last week. The vulnerability in OpenSSH Versions 2.9.9 through 3.3, which allow local and remote root compromise, resulted from an input validation error that enabled an integer overflow and privilege escalation, according […]

A vulnerability in a popular, free implementation of the Secure Shell protocols that prompted a warning from the suites developers has been quickly capped. The vulnerability in OpenSSH versions 2.9.9 through 3.3 was the result of an input validation error that enabled an integer overflow and privilege escalation, according to developers. OpenSSH, a free set […]

A vulnerability has been discovered in a popular, free implementation of the Secure Shell protocols, prompting a warning from the suites developers, who are rushing to prepare a fix. The vulnerability, which concerns local- and remote-root compromise, surfaced yesterday in OpenSSH, the free set of network connectivity tools developed by the OpenBSD Project. OpenSSH is […]

Network and applications monitoring vendor Micromuse Ltd. today said it will buy network analysis software maker RiverSoft Technologies Ltd.. in an all-cash deal valued at $64 million. The deal will give Micromuse, maker of the Netcool suite of assurance tools, access to RiverSofts flagship NMOS network intelligence engine, officials said. Greg Brown, Micromuses chairman and […]

Embattled WorldCom Inc. President and CEO Bernard Ebbers called it quits today, stepping down from the top spot in the company he founded more than 20 years ago. The move comes as WorldCom faces increased scrutiny over past deals and as Ebbers himself is mired in controversy over a $360 million personal loan from the […]