Dennis Fisher

Network Associates Inc. on Tuesday announced earnings of 32 cents per share on revenue of $217 million for the first quarter. Although revenue was down slightly from $219 million in the first quarter of 2003, a reduction in costs boosted earnings sharply from 8 cents per share. Bookings in the McAfee Security unit—which includes the […]

Security experts on Tuesday said they are seeing evidence of what appears to be a worm exploiting the recently announced vulnerability in the Windows implementation of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. During the morning and early afternoon Tuesday, specialists at VeriSign Inc.s security operations center observed a large-scale exploitation of the vulnerability. While there […]

If the recent compromises of Unix and Linux machines at supercomputing centers and research universities around the country do nothing else, they should prove once and for all that there is nothing new under the sun. To security world veterans, the pattern of attacks likely sounds eerily familiar. It is nearly identical to the methods […]

Two major security issues affecting routers hit the Internet community within hours of each other last week, sending administrators and network operators scurrying to get updated software to protect their devices before an expected wave of attacks begins. The more serious of the two problems is a critical vulnerability in Cisco Systems Inc.s Cisco IOS […]

The federal government is developing plans for a secure network operations center for all security information flowing to and from the government. The security operations center would be separate from other such facilities at federal agencies and would not necessarily be concerned with monitoring the operations of production government networks. Instead, the SOC would be […]

Security experts are monitoring what appears to be a coordinated effort to exploit a known vulnerability in the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) implementation in Windows, and say that there may be a worm doing some of the work. The vulnerability in the SSL library in Windows has been known for some time, and there is […]

A persistent new spam campaign that purports to show recipients pictures of Osama bin Laden being captured is in fact a ruse that could lead victims to download a malicious Trojan. The e-mails have been flooding inboxes all over the Internet since Thursday, carrying a subject line that reads: “Osama bin Laden Captured.” The sending […]

Network Associates Inc. on Thursday said it has agreed to sell its Sniffer business unit for $275 million in cash and that it will change the companys name to McAfee Inc. once the sale is final. Both of the moves have been widely anticipated within the security industry for several months, and NAI officials have […]

Just hours after security experts revealed a new attack capable of taking down any device receiving TCP requests, Cisco Systems Inc. said that a large portion of its routers and switches contain a serious software flaw that also could be used by attackers to knock those devices offline. /zimages/4/28571.gifClick here for an analysis of the […]

Internet Security Systems Inc. on Tuesday posted earnings of 10 cents per share on revenue of $67 million for the first quarter. Although the revenue figure represents a 13 percent increase over the same period last year, earnings were down by one cent per share. Company officials said the Proventia line of multifunction security appliances […]