Dennis Fisher

Check Point Software Technologies Inc. on Monday posted earnings of $0.24 on revenue of $106.1 million, down slightly from the $0.27 per share and $108.5 million the company produced in the same period last year. Results for the first half of 2003 were also down slightly compared to 2002. The company earned $0.49 per share […]

Less than a day after Cisco Systems Inc. disclosed the existence of a serious vulnerability in its routers and switches, someone posted a working exploit for the issue to a security mailing list. Using the pseudonym “Marion Barry,” the poster published his exploit to the Full Disclosure list early Friday morning. Sources have confirmed to […]

Internet Security Systems Inc. on Wednesday reported earnings of $0.10 per share on revenue of $59.1 million in the second quarter. That represents a 25 percent jump in earnings from the same period last year, when the company had revenue of $60 million but earned just $0.08 per share. However, the numbers fell short of […]

RSA Security Inc. on Thursday reported earnings of $0.05 per share on revenue of $63.4 million, a 12 percent jump in revenue compared to the same period last year. These numbers represent a major turnaround from 2002 for RSA. Twelve months ago the company posted a net loss of $25 million, or $0.44 per share, […]

Microsoft Corp. has issued a patch for the first serious vulnerability to be found in the Windows Server 2003 software, which company officials have said is their most secure OS yet. Although this is actually the fourth flaw to affect Windows 2003, it is the first one to be rated critical. The others were rated […]

Network Associates Inc. on Wednesday reported earnings of $1.1 million, or $0.01 per share, as the company continues to reshape itself and recover from a financial scandal. The results represent a substantial decline from the same period last year, when NAI earned $21.2 million, or $0.14 per share, on revenue of $232.9 million. Revenue for […]

Former White House cyber-security czar Richard Clarke ripped his former employer Tuesday, saying that the government is doing an unacceptable job of helping the private sector lock down the nations critical infrastructure. Speaking at a press conference called to announce a new private alliance of technology companies concerned with security, Clarke took the Department of […]

Microsoft Corp. last week issued patches for three flaws in various versions of Windows, two of which give attackers the ability to run their own code on vulnerable machines. The most serious of the vulnerabilities affects all currently supported versions of Windows, from Windows 98 through Windows Server 2003. The problem lies in the HTML […]

The government is looking for one good person: someone with years of operational security experience with a solid track record of leading a talented group of people performing vital, sensitive tasks for a public-sector salary in complete anonymity. The candidate must be willing to work long hours, be comfortable with getting no credit for his […]

A large portion of the cyber-security talent that has drained out of the federal government in the last few months has reassembled in a new consulting firm. Richard Clarke, John Tritak and Roger Cressey have joined together to found Good Harbor Consulting LLC, which will advise clients on homeland security, cyber-security, counterterrorism and infrastructure protection […]