Dennis Fisher

Anti-virus experts are downplaying recent claims that there is a second hidden cache of data in the SoBig worms code that directs infected computers to contact a group of seven mail and name servers owned by an AOL Time Warner Inc. subsidiary. Officials at BitDefender, a unit of Softwin SRL in Bucharest, Romania, said on […]

It turns out that SoBig.F is even less original than previously thought. The self-updating capability that had anti-virus experts, users and even the FBI scrambling this weekend was in fact present in some of the earlier versions of the virus, albeit in a somewhat less advanced form. “That capability was in previous versions. I think […]

Counterpane Internet Security Inc. on Monday announced a new offering that completely revamps the companys menu of enterprise services. The Global Enterprise Protection Suite comprises three distinct services, including two totally new offerings, and is meant to complement Counterpanes managed security monitoring business. The new device management, vulnerability scanning and active response services were developed […]

Researchers at RSA Security Inc.s lab have come up with a technique they said will eliminate many of the privacy concerns surrounding the use of RFID tags and enable enterprises and consumers to use the technology without worry. The solution, which involves fooling RFID (radio frequency identification) readers into believing all possible tags are present […]

Welcome to the summer of the Worm. Just eight days after Blaster began chewing its way through the Internet, another variant of the SoBig worm appeared last week, further burdening already-overworked IT and security staffs. As annoying and potentially dangerous as Blaster is, mass-mailing worms such as SoBig are perhaps worse from an enterprise perspective, […]

Symantec Corp. on Monday announced that the next version of its Norton AntiVirus product will include technology to protect against rogue applications such as keystroke loggers and spyware. Even as viruses like SoBig and others continue to rampage across the Internet and infect machines almost at will, emerging threats, including spyware, Trojans and others, are […]

Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the Internet, anti-virus experts are warning that PCs infected by the SoBig.F worm may on Friday become part of an as-yet unknown attack. Experts at both Sophos Inc. and F-Secure Corp. say that the worm is programmed to automatically connect to one of several […]

So far, SoBig. The virus that has been rampaging through corporate networks and bringing mail servers to their figurative knees all week is now officially the most prolific piece of malware ever, at least by one measure. MessageLabs Inc., an e-mail security company based in New York, said it saw more copies of SoBig.F in […]

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday issued patches for two new critical flaws in Internet Explorer. The more dangerous of the two vulnerabilities results from IEs failure to properly check the object type that is returned from a Web server. It doesnt take much for an attacker to exploit this flaw; all thats needed is for a […]

Security researchers believe they have identified a new breed of Trojan horse that is infecting machines on the Internet, possibly in preparation for a larger coordinated attack. Experts have been unable to pin down many of the details of the programs behavior, however, and they are unsure how many machines might be compromised. The program […]

Welcome to the summer of the worm. Hard on the heels of the , yet another version of the resilient and ever-popular SoBig virus began spreading rapidly on the Internet Tuesday morning. Known as SoBig.F, the new variant behaves much like its older siblings, infecting Windows machines via e-mail and sending out dozens of copies […]

Zone Labs Inc. has acquired IMsecure Corp., a small developer of security software for instant messaging applications, and will integrate IMsecures Desktop product into its Integrity enterprise firewall. Zone Labs will also offer a stand-alone version of the IM product, called IMsecure Pro, for consumers, company officials said last week. The officials said the acquisition […]