Dennis Fisher

During his 30 years in Washington, Richard Clarke evolved from a State Department staffer into the nations top counterterrorism official and, at the time of his retirement in March, the special adviser to the president for cybersecurity. Along the way, he developed a reputation for knowing how to get things done and also became one […]

It has come to this: A professor at the University of Calgary in the fall will teach a class that will show students how to code viruses and Trojans. The university is billing the class as the first of its kind in Canada, and it may well be the first such course anywhere. The class, […]

Yet another bank-related e-mail scam is beginning to show up in Internet users mailboxes this week, this one targeting users of a money-transfer service owned by Citibank FSB. The fraudulent e-mail attempts to lure customers of the c2it service into divulging their account usernames and passwords, as well as the credit card numbers associated with […]

Responding to the growing demand for integration, Netegrity Inc. on Monday announced a new solution with the ability to manage identity data and access across both Web and enterprise applications. The new capabilities are packaged in the next release of IdentityMinder. In addition to its core identity management feature set, the software now includes provisioning, […]

E-mail scammers have recently launched two nearly identical campaigns to dupe users into divulging their bank account information and other personal data, and theyre meeting with some success. The two scams, both of which started in the past two weeks, take the form of e-mail messages that tell recipients that there is a problem with […]

As it wended its way through corporate networks last week, the Fizzer worm did more than just clog mail servers and log keystrokes; it also pointed out just how quickly anti-virus vendors are losing ground to virus writers. Despite the advances in AV software in the past few years, it is, by nature, a reactive […]

The Palyh worm was showing some signs of running out of steam late Wednesday, as security vendors reported seeing fewer copies than they had earlier in the week. At its peak on Monday, nearly one in every 200 e-mails contained a copy of Palyh, according to statistics compiled by MessageLabs Inc., an e-mail security vendor […]

Qualys Inc. on Monday unveiled a new free network-mapping tool that can deliver detailed information about any device connected to a given network. FreeMap is a Web-based graphical tool that essentially functions like a souped-up version of Nmap or any of the other network-discovery tools available on the Internet. Anyone with an Internet connection and […]

Network Associates Inc., which has spent more than $200 million on acquisitions this spring, laid off about 150 employees this week, sources close to the company say. An NAI spokesperson said the layoffs, which totaled about 3 percent of the companys workforce, were done for a combination of reasons, including employee performance and strategic engineering […]

SafeNet Inc. on Tuesday will announce its new SafeEnterprise Security System, a centrally managed set of products that helps securely tie together disparate networks and devices. The system is made up mainly of existing products. But the heart of the new offering is the Security Management Center, a console designed to handle all of the […]

A small security startup on Monday will announce a software solution that puts a new spin on the concept of application security. Permeo Technologies Application Security suite 4.2 includes a clientless option that enables users to launch programs from a typical application portal. Permeos solution uses a unique architecture that creates a virtual network above […]

In the latest deal in the security industrys ongoing consolidation, Symantec Corp. has agreed to acquire Nexland Inc., a small appliance vendor, for $19.6 million in cash, according to a release published by Nexland Wednesday. Nexland, based in Miami, has had a relationship with Symantec for two years, under which Symantec has been licensing the […]