Dennis Fisher

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 […]

Research from an e-mail security provider suggests that a handful of people are responsible for the vast majority of the phishing attacks on the Internet and the perpetrators are using a rotating series of zombie networks to launch them. Researchers at CipherTrust Inc. analyzed more than four million e-mails collected from the companys customers during […]

As legislators and department of Homeland Security officials continue to debate whether to give the nations top cyber-security official more authority, the people involved in securing the countrys networks are working out a new arrangement that may portend an unprecedented level of cooperation between the DHS and the private sector. A plan is under way […]

Few vendors in the security industry are better known or have more widely deployed products than Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. The Redwood City, Calif., company helped popularize the notion of a network firewall, and 11 years after its founding, 100 percent of the Fortune 500 uses some product from Check Point. Gil Shwed, the […]

Less than a week after the nations top cyber-security official resigned, saying he had done all he could with the resources provided, branches of the U.S. government are now scrambling to strengthen the position to ensure that Amit Yorans successor is equipped for the long haul. /zimages/3/28571.gifClick here to read more about Yorans resignation. In […]

In a suprising move designed to solidify its position in the lucrative identity management market, Computer Associates International Inc. on Wednesday agreed to acquire Netegrity Inc. for $430 million in cash. Netegrity is one of a handful of ID management vendors that have been competing against the larger players in the market, such as Novell […]

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 […]

Amit Yoran, the nations top cyber-security official, has resigned from the Department of Homeland Security after just one year on the job. DHS officials confirmed his resignation but would not comment further on his reasons or the timing of his departure. Yoran turned in his resignation Thursday, and Friday is his last day on the […]

WASHINGTON—As phishing scams, identity theft and other online schemes proliferate, the private sector is calling on the federal government to take a leadership role but is stopping short of requesting new laws. Such demands, however, are turning the spotlight back on private industry, which—observers looking for an even stronger governmental response say—has made meager progress […]

A phishing scam that appeared Thursday claiming to help protect consumers against debit-card fraud and identity theft has experts worried about the increasing skill and creativity of online scammers. The scam, which takes the form of an e-mail message, falsely claims that the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.) has created a new program to track […]

Passwords as we know them could be yesterdays news if two-factor authentication solutions from VeriSign Inc. and RSA Security Inc. catch on with enterprises. Two-factor solutions combine a pass phrase with a key chain token that continually generates unique passwords that are used only once each time a user logs on to a network. The […]