Dennis Fisher

As criticism of the federal governments security practices and policies mounts, some agencies are making sweeping changes in the way they manage IT assets. The Department of Justice, one of a handful of agencies that received a failing grade on last months report card on IT security delivered by a congressional subcommittee, is at the […]

Anti-virus experts are watching a new worm that spreads through Microsoft Corp.s MSN Messenger client. The worm is not harmful to infected machines and has infected only a few PCs at this point, according to an analysis by Trend Micro Inc. Known as Jitux, the worm is self-propagating and contains a link to a Web […]

Verisign Inc.s acquisition of Guardent Inc. last week not only brought together the two strongest managed security services providers, but it may also spark a new wave of consolidation and innovation in the MSSP sector as the remaining players scramble to hold customers. In the wake of the $140 million VeriSign deal, companies such as […]

VeriSign Inc. on Wednesday announced that it has agreed to acquire managed security services provider Guardent Inc. for $140 million. The deal, first reported by eWEEK Tuesday, greatly enhances VeriSigns services portfolio and further underscores the companys renewed commitment to the security sector. Officials from both companies said the combination of the skill sets and […]

For network security companies, the past two years have been a blur of innovation and skyrocketing customer demand, both feeding off a string of increasingly disruptive and malicious viruses, worms and targeted attacks. Indeed, as enterprises have scrambled to keep pace with the bad guys and look for better ways to secure their networks, security […]

Network Associates Inc. this week plans to unveil a spate of new capabilities in its GroupShield and SpamKiller products for Microsoft Corp.s Exchange and Lotus Domino. The two solutions now are designed to work in concert as a suite and include a host of content-filtering and analysis functions to help administrators reduce the number of […]

The Department of Homeland Security was one of several federal agencies to receive a failing grade on information security in a new report released Tuesday by a House subcommittee. Thats hardly encouraging news for the department, which is in charge of defending the nations network infrastructure. The grade was for the departments own network, however, […]

Security experts have found a new way to exploit a critical vulnerability in Windows that evades a workaround and enables the attacker to compromise a number of machines at one time. The new attack could also lead to the creation of another fast-spreading Windows worm, the experts warned. The workaround in question is for the […]

The SCO Group Inc. claims that its Web site was the target of a distributed denial-of-service attack that made the site inaccessible for much of the day Wednesday. In addition to black-holing the site, SCO claims that the companys intranet, mail servers and customer support systems also were affected. SCO has been the target of […]

In the past four years, Microsoft Corp. has issued at least one security bulletin—and often as many as a half dozen—every month. But not this month. For the first time in living memory, or at least as far back as Microsofts Web site records go, the company does not plan to issue any scheduled security […]