Dennis Fisher

Steve Lipner, the head of Microsoft Corp.s Security Response Center, is stepping down to take a new job at the company. Kevin Kean, a seven-year Microsoft veteran, will be taking over Lipners duties, Microsoft said Wednesday. This departure marks the second such leadership change at the MSRC in less than a year. Scott Culp, the […]

BindView Corp. is unveiling a new solution that will help security specialists monitor their companies compliance with the ever-growing array of federal and state regulations regarding data protection and privacy. The companys Compliance Center attempts to place each piece of data into context as it relates to regulations, corporate policies and historical trends. Compliance Center […]

Security vendor Entrust Inc. is laying off some of its workers, closing several remote offices and doing a partial reorganization in a broad effort to slash costs as it transforms its product line. The company did not say how many people will be let go; only that it is hoping to cut $5 million in […]

Two prominent groups of anti-virus professionals on Monday condemned the recent decision by the University of Calgary to offer a course that includes instruction on coding viruses. The groups said that teaching such skills “is completely unnecessary” and undermines the work being done to counteract viruses. “It is simply not necessary to write new viruses […]

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 […]