Dennis Fisher

CipherTrust Inc. on Monday announced a new architecture for its IronMail solution that is designed to protect users privacy through the use of a diverse set of encryption capabilities. The IronMail Privacy Architecture lets users choose among three distinct types of encryption and sending options for secure e-mail messages. The IronMail appliance comes with support […]

Another version of the tenacious Bagle virus is on the loose, and some security experts and administrators say it is among the more persistent viruses theyve seen all year. Bagle.AI, which was discovered Monday, is quite similar to the dozens of other variants in its family, and there seems to be little reason for its […]

If there is one constant in the security community, its the ready supply of controversies available to rile the troops. The mere mention of open-source security or the hype surrounding intrusion prevention systems is enough to generate pointed, Opinionated feedback in many circles. Perhaps no issue is drawing as much attention and engendering as many […]

Security appliance vendor Blue Coat Systems Inc. on Monday announced plans to acquire Cerberian Inc., a provider of URL filtering technology. Blue Coat has been in the process of adding new capabilities to its boxes for more than a year, and the Cerberian purchase gives the company access to four separate URL filtering databases. Blue […]

A group calling itself the Source Code Club is offering to sell files that it claims contain the source code for Enterasys Networks Inc.s Dragon IDS (intrusion detection system) software. The asking price: $16,000. The groups rudimentary Web site, which is registered under a Ukrainian domain name, lists hundreds of files that appear as though […]

Ten months after co-authoring a paper positing that Microsoft Corp.s dominance in the operating system market is a hazard to the security of the Internet—a claim that cost him his job—Dan Geer has lost none of the zeal for the fight. Geer, now the chief scientist at security vendor Verdasys Inc., in Waltham, Mass., defended […]

Microsoft Corp. officials on Monday said that the company plans to release its long-awaited Service Pack 2 for Windows XP in August. Until today, the company had said only that the update would be available this summer. Microsoft last month released a second release candidate of the service pack, an unusual move for an interim […]

Frustrated by the barrage of security problems surrounding Microsoft Corp.s Internet Explorer, some enterprises are looking for ways to prevent employees from using the dominant browser and are casting about for alternatives. But as they turn to removing the browser as a safeguarding measure, some are finding the task not so simple. In fact, doing […]

When they first banded together nearly three years ago, the companies that would eventually form the Organization for Internet Safety hoped to develop a framework to help security researchers simplify and codify their interactions with software vendors and impose some order on the research community. The idea had some initial support from vendors and researchers, […]

Application security specialist SPI Dynamics Inc. is rolling out a solution that helps developers lock down applications during development through secure chunks of code. Meanwhile, startup Ounce Labs Inc., of Waltham, Mass., has released the second version of its Prexis source code analysis tool. While SPI Dynamics and Ounce Labs take different paths, both aim […]

Security software vendor McAfee Inc. has laid off about 100 employees in a number of groups throughout the company as part of its ongoing effort to cut costs and improve the companys operating margins. Officials at McAfee, based in Santa Clara, Calif., would not specify which departments were hit by the layoffs. However, sources close […]

The rash of recent attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft Corp.s Internet Explorer browser is evidence that crackers are adopting tactics favored by spyware purveyors and could just be the beginning of a wave of highly targeted, well-engineered attacks, security experts say. Because of its market dominance and its much publicized security holes, IE has long […]