Dennis Fisher

RSA Security Inc. on Thursday reported a loss of $0.18 per share for the fourth quarter, compared with earnings of $1.70 per share in the same period in 2000. The company also announced that the Securities and Exchange Commission has begun a formal investigation into the companys change of accounting methods, which RSA announced in […]

Okena Inc. this week introduced its new integrated security suite, StormSystem, which combines its two previously released products. The new suite is based on StormWatch, which installs agents at various points of the network and collects data, which is in turn fed to the other components of StormSystem. The new release comprises StormWatch and StormFront, […]

IBM and VeriSign Inc., two of the largest players in the security market, have signed an agreement that calls for the companies to jointly develop new technologies and services as well as cooperate on marketing efforts. Under the terms of the partnership, which they announced Tuesday, the two companies will develop and market a new […]

Sales were down last quarter at PKI vendor Entrust Inc., but so was its loss. The Plano, Texas, company on Tuesday reported a net loss of 9 cents per share on sharply lower revenues of $28.4 million for the fourth quarter of 2001. In the same period a year ago, Entrust posted a net loss […]

In a dramatic example of the kind of damage that coordinated Internet attacks can cause, a British ISP Tuesday shut down its entire operation after a massive denial-of-service attack crippled its network for several days. Cloud Nine Communications Ltd. announced this morning that it had decided to close its operations after company executives determined they […]

As the launch of Microsoft Corp.s critical .Net Framework nears, Bill Gates is kicking off an all-out effort to repair the companys reputation for poor security and reliability. In an internal memo last week, Gates, chairman and chief software architect of the Redmond, Wash., company, articulated a broad-based plan to combat security and reliability problems […]

Yet another e-mail-borne worm is making the rounds on the Internet using an infection and pattern that should be quite familiar to administrators and users. The worm is capable of deleting anti-virus and a lengthy list of other files. On the sixth day of every month save January and July, the worm tries to overwrite […]

Timing, as they say, is everything. As the furor over Oracle Corp.s new Unbreakable ad campaign grows, Application Security Inc. this week introduced the new version of its AppDetective, a security scanner specifically designed to look for vulnerabilities in Oracle databases. Oracle, the Redwood Shores, Calif., database software maker, lately has been running a print […]

As the launch of Microsoft Corp.s critical .Net Framework draws closer, Bill Gates is launching an all-out effort to repair his companys reputation for poor security and reliability. Gates, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft in Redmond, Wash., has developed a broad-based plan to combat present and future security and reliability problems in all […]

Network Associates Inc. on Thursday reported pro forma fourth-quarter earnings of $0.23 per share, or $40.5 million, a sharp improvement over the year-ago quarters loss of $0.87 per share. Analysts had expected the company to turn in pro forma earnings of $0.08 per share. This was the Santa Clara, Calif., security giants second consecutive profitable […]