Dennis Fisher

Discuss This in the eWEEK Forum Faced with a growing number of identity management competitors, Computer Associates International Inc. plans to juggle its product lineup once again, this time consolidating two security lines in an effort to ease customer deployment and integration. At the Computer Security Institute conference in Washington this week, CA will announce […]

Security, engineering and public policy experts at Carnegie Mellon University are joining together to form a lab at the school dedicated to researching and developing new security technologies. The new organization, known as the Carnegie Mellon CyLab, will include representatives from the schools engineering, computer science and public policy departments, as well as personnel from […]

Discuss This in the eWEEK Forum MagiQ Technologies Inc. on Monday plans to release the first version of its much talked-about quantum key distribution product, known as Navajo. The system is to be unveiled at next weeks Computer Security Institute show in Washington and is among the first commercially available quantum cryptography products. In theory […]

Discuss This in the eWEEK Forum Antivirus experts are warning of a new mass-mailing worm infecting Windows machines that also is programmed to launch a denial-of-service attack against two domain names. The new pest is called Mimail.C, and it conforms to just about every convention of the mass-mailing virus rulebook. The worm first appeared Friday […]

Discuss This in the eWEEK Forum Internet Security Systems Inc. on Thursday announced plans to shut down two of its international engineering operations in an effort to slash costs. The announcement comes less than 10 days after the company reported third quarter net income of $5 million, down 21 percent from the same period last […]

Security appliance vendor Blue Coat Systems Inc. on Wednesday announced its acquisition of Ositis Software Inc., a small maker of anti-virus appliances. Blue Coat will pay $1 million in cash and 363,125 in stock for the company. The acquisition will enable Blue Coat to add its own anti-virus protection to its line of ProxySG boxes. […]

Security researchers have identified three new vulnerabilities in Apple Computer Inc.s Mac OS X, one of which may allow attackers to execute some arbitrary commands as a root user under some circumstances. The flaws affect all versions of the operating system through 10.2 and are fixed in release 10.3, also known as Panther, according to […]

As wireless LANs continue to multiply in the enterprise, several security vendors are readying major upgrades to their WLAN defense systems that promise more advanced protection, as well as tools to help administrators manage the way WLANs are deployed and used. AirMagnet Inc. this week plans to unveil Version 3.0 of its Mobile product suite, […]

Two of the industrys largest security vendors are getting together to offer an all-in-one security appliance, and in so doing will join what is already a crowded market. Network Associates Inc. and Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. last week announced a new partnership under which NAI will contribute some of its anti-virus technology to an […]

Symantec Corp. continued what has become a yearlong acquisition binge on Monday when it announced that it has agreed to buy On Technology Corp. for $100 million. On Technology sells infrastructure management systems that help enterprises deploy and manage software. On Technology becomes the sixth company that Symantec has acquired since July 2002. That summer […]