Dennis Fisher

Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to unveil two new security services next week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, both of which are designed to help customers resist potential and ongoing attacks. The announcements will be a part of Hewlett-Packards big showing at the conference, which also includes a speech by Chief Privacy Officer Barbara Lawler, […]

As part of an effort to crystallize the thinking and product-development around the nascent area of Web application security, a group of vendors will announce next week the formation of a new consortium meant to help define and promote standards concerning application security. Founding members of the group include Application Security Inc., KaVaDo Inc., Sanctum […]

A new version of the Bagle virus is making the rounds of the Internet. Known as Bagle.B, the virus is a mass-mailer like the original Bagle and also includes a component that notifies the author each time a new machine is infected. Anti-virus companies say they have seen several dozen submissions of Bagle.B from customers […]

When Microsoft Corp. announced its intention to get into the digital rights management market, many industry observers —even some DRM vendors—figured that plan signaled the end of many independent DRM companies hopes. But one vendor, Authentica Inc., is going after Microsoft with its new Secure Office solution. The system uses strong encryption and user-defined access […]

In a major milestone in the maturation process for security event management technologies, a small vendor will unveil the first dedicated SEM appliance. High Tower Software Inc.s TowerView box incorporates the companys SEM software, which includes a unique correlation and visualization feature that presents security events in three dimensions. As technologies such as firewalls and […]

A portion of source code from Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 made its way onto the Internet Thursday, sending shockwaves throughout the industry over the potential harm that could be inflicted if the code were to land in the wrong hands and leading to internal and external investigations by Microsoft Corp. The sections of […]

Microsoft Corp. officials confirmed late Thursday that a portion of the source code for Windows NT and Windows 2000 has been posted on the Internet. The company said it did not believe the posting was the result of a security breach, which means that it is likely that someone who had a legitimate copy of […]

Every day in the security world brings something unexpected, and the appearance Wednesday of Doomjuice.B certainly fits that bill. The worm is a variant of Doomjuice.A, which first appeared Monday and is a variant of MyDoom.A. Experts said the new worm one of the few known cases of a variant threat spawning a variant. Like […]

In an effort to batten down its operating system, Sun Microsystems Inc. this week will unveil a sweeping set of security enhancements to Solaris, as well as new managed security services. The moves, which include a rewriting of parts of the Solaris kernel as well as a major partnership with VeriSign Inc., are in large […]

Microsoft on Tuesday warned of a serious security vulnerability in all of the current versions of Windows that not only allows an attacker to run code on vulnerable machines, but also enables him to install software and change and delete data. The vulnerability is covered in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-007. The problem, which lies in […]