Dennis Fisher

Internet Security Systems Inc. has decided to dissolve its relationship with Nokia Corp., one of the companys oldest and most important partners. The partnership officially will end Feb. 1, although both companies already have informed their sales and marketing teams of the decision. Since 2000, ISS and Nokias Internet Communications division have sold and marketed […]

VeriSign Inc. last week took the first step toward establishing itself as a major player in the RFID world when it won the contract to operate the RFID equivalent of the Internets root-name servers. This is a familiar position for VeriSign, which runs several of the root DNS (Domain Name System) servers that house the […]

While most security vendors continue to develop products that harden the network perimeter, two companies are introducing solutions designed to protect the vulnerabilities inside enterprise networks. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. and Ingrian Networks Inc. are each taking steps to solve the problem of internal threats—data misuse and abuse from employees, partners, customers and other […]

Network Associates Inc. has laid off an undisclosed number of people from its Sniffer business unit and has outsourced a number of those jobs to India, a company spokesperson confirmed Friday. The layoffs, which happened within the last two weeks, come at a time when the company is in the middle of an effort to […]

Internet Security Systems Inc. on Wednesday announced its acquisition of Cobion AG, a German content-security vendor whose technology ISS plans to build into its Proventia line of appliances. The acquisition is meant to round out ISS lineup of security products, which until now has consisted of vulnerability assessment and intrusion detection solutions for the most […]

The recent flurry of acquisitions may be just the opening rumbles of a major shake-up that could change the face of the security industry this year. The market has been growing at a steady rate for several years, during which time there also has been a tremendous amount of innovation in products and services. But […]

As the Department of Homeland Security works to iron out wrinkles in its new biometrics-based, border-entry program, experts familiar with the technology and the governments efforts are raising questions about the projects viability. The program, known as United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US VISIT) and announced last week, is designed to give […]

A new Trojan horse program appeared on the Internet Friday, and security experts are worried that its disguise will help it infect a large number of computers rather quickly. Known variously as Xombe and Downloader, the program is attached to an e-mail that purports to come from Microsoft Corp. and supposedly delivers security updates to […]

Security vendors eEye Digital Security Inc. and eSecurity Inc. are set to announce a partnership to deliver vulnerability assessment and event correlation in one solution. The solution will be based on eEyes Retina vulnerability scanner and eSecuritys namesake security event management console. Customers will be able to launch vulnerability scans from the eSecurity console, and […]

The maintainers of the Linux kernel have released a new version of the 2.4 series kernel to fix two security vulnerabilities, including one that enables attackers to escalate their privilege level and run arbitrary code. Nearly a day after researchers disclosed the vulnerabilities, a young computer engineer posted proof-of-concept exploit code for one of the […]