Dennis Fisher

Customers who use a number of the top online banking sites are at risk of falling prey to a new Web-based attack that snatches user IDs and passwords for these sites. Among the sites targeted by the attack are some owned by Citibank, Deutsche Bank and Barclays Bank. The attack is rather complex and appears […]

Faced with an explosion in identity theft and phishing, lawmakers and vendors are taking action to increase penalties for the crimes and offer technological solutions to help stop the scams at their sources. VeriSign Inc. this week will unveil a service that officials said will help protect enterprises from phishing attacks and, in the bargain, […]

Application security specialist SPI Dynamics Inc. on Monday rolled out a new solution designed to help developers lock down their applications during development through the use of secure chunks of code. Also on Monday, a small startup, Ounce Labs Inc., of Waltham, Mass., released the second version of its Prexis source-code analysis tool. While SPI […]

Security experts are tracking a new piece of malware that appears to be compromising large numbers of Windows PCs and may be laying the groundwork for the creation of a large spamming network or a major attack in the future. Analysts at NetSec Inc., a managed security services provider, began seeing indications of the compromises […]

Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday will roll out its OpenView Select Identity provisioning product, a new offering based on technology the company acquired earlier this year. The solution is one of the first pieces of HPs new security strategy, a plan that comprises offerings in trustworthy systems, proactive security management and identity management. Like many of its […]

Network Associates Inc. officials denied Wednesday that they are actively looking to sell the company—to Microsoft Corp. or anyone else. NAI recently has shed all of its nonsecurity business units, agreeing to sell both its Sniffer and Magic divisions, while choosing to focus on its new intrusion prevention strategy. This trimming of the product line […]

As part of a continuing effort to halt the exploding online crime of phishing, MasterCard International Inc. on Tuesday announced that it is establishing a program to help eliminate the Web-based card-swapping rings and phony Web sites that are the tools of the trade for online scammers. Under an agreement with NameProtect Inc., the card […]

One year after it surprised rivals and partners by jumping into the anti-virus market, Microsoft Corp. still has no clear AV strategy, and users are still hanging on to the promise of integrated Windows protection. The companys sluggish AV development is a far cry from the plans Microsoft trumpeted when it acquired the Romanian company […]

Blue Coat Systems Inc. on Monday is unveiling a new set of appliances designed to solve the latency and throughput problems that hamper the current generation of Web anti-virus boxes. The ProxyAV appliance works in conjunction with the companys ProxySG security gateway, and only inspects the Web objects that the gateway hands off to it. […]

With more corporate workers than ever working at home or in secondary locations at least part time, many enterprise security managers find themselves at a loss to control the security and integrity of the machines their users work on. This can be especially troublesome when users bring files and documents from home or from the […]

The former chief financial officer of Network Associates, known for its McAfee anti-virus software, was charged Wednesday with 20 counts of securities fraud and conspiracy in connection with an alleged scheme to fudge the companys books to hide losses and inflate earnings in the late 1990s. Prabhat Goyal served as the companys CFO from late […]

RSA Security Inc. on Monday announced that it is rolling out a set of services to help organizations manage and secure their implementations of RFID technology. Radio frequency identification has been touted as a time- and money-saving solution for a wide variety of organizations, especially retailers and distributors who need to keep close tabs on […]