Dennis Fisher

Microsoft Corp., RSA Security Inc., eBay Inc. and several other technology companies and groups have joined together to form a new organization to fight online identity theft. Known as the Coalition on Online Identity Theft, the nascent group plans to use a four-part strategy to help consumers and businesses counter the growing problem of online […]

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday issued a patch for a critical vulnerability in its Visual Basic for Applications SDK, which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable server. The weakness exists in the way that VBA looks at the properties of documents passed to it when the document is opened by a […]

Passlogix Inc. this week plans to announce the newest version of its v-GO single sign-on offering, which now has a much smaller memory footprint and is designed to work in any environment, regardless of what mix of platforms and applications are in place. The v-GO SSO 4.0 solution now supports single sign-on across Windows, Web, […]

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

Cryptographic hardware provider nCipher plc. is developing an application that promises to remove a major stumbling block for organizations looking to implement a PKI by automating the onerous process of moving encryption keys among devices. One drawback of public-key infrastructure cryptosystems, such as those used in e-commerce applications and other online transactions, has been that […]

In battling worms such as Bagle and MyDoom, users are growing frustrated a lack of tools and help from software vendors, leading some administrators to take innovative steps to keep their networks from being crippled on a weekly basis. MyDoom.O hit earlier this week and quickly began clogging corporate networks with millions of infected e-mail […]

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 […]