Dennis Fisher

Security vendor accelerated Encryption Processing Ltd. has unveiled two additions to its line of SSL accelerators, including a chip that can handle up to 10,000 tps. The AEP10K is the first release under the companys Scalable Public Key Architecture, a design that will eventually support application-specific integrated circuits capable of handling 100,000 Secure Sockets Layer […]

As the number of security vulnerabilities continues to rise, evidenced by the flaws reported in SNMP last week, an increasing number of vendors are turning to so-called intrusion prevention technologies that identify and eliminate vulnerabilities before they can be exploited. Companies such as Recourse Technologies Inc., Foundstone Inc. and SecurityFocus Inc. have each developed products […]

NEW YORK–Network Associates Inc. is readying a spate of new and updated products, along with a renewed focus on mergers and acquisitions, both of which are designed to broaden the companys reach beyond its bread-and-butter anti-virus offerings. The products include updated versions of the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator and ThreatScan as well as new security capabilities […]

Microsoft Corp. is going on the offensive to restore confidence in its .Net platform after a security consulting firm claimed it had found a critical flaw in a new compiler Microsoft released earlier this week. In an unusual move, a member of the team that developed the product in question–the Visual C++.Net compiler–posted a lengthy […]

A security consulting company is warning that a security tool included in Microsoft Corp.s new Visual C++.Net compiler is flawed, but Microsoft officials say there is no flaw and that the tool works just as it was designed to. The problem lies in the implementation of tool similar to StackGuard, a technology used in some […]

NEW YORK–Network Associates Inc. on Wednesday announced that it has agreed to sell its Gauntlet firewall and VPN business to Secure Computing Corp. for an undisclosed amount. The sale is part of the ongoing reconstruction of Network Associates that CEO George Samenuk undertook when he joined the company in late 2000. As part of the […]

Microsoft Corp. on Monday released a cumulative patch that fixes six new vulnerabilities in several versions of Internet Explorer. The patch is also designed to repair all known vulnerabilities in IE 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0. The most serious of the new flaws is a buffer overflow associated with a specific HTML directive that could enable […]

Security researchers have discovered several flaws in SNMP, a language used for communications with network devices, which they say could enable attackers to deny service to various devices or even take control of them entirely. SNMP (simple network management protocol) is widely deployed on the Internet and in private networks and is used mainly to […]

Novell Inc. last week joined the Liberty Alliance Project single-sign-on effort, adding yet another marquee name to what is shaping up to be a partisan fight over the future of identity management on the Web. The Provo, Utah, company will bring its considerable experience in identity management to the alliance, which is designed to develop […]

When Robert Morris unleashed the first self-propagating worm on the Internet in 1988, the state of the art in network security was callback modems, authentication servers such as Kerberos and challenge-response protocols. Technologies such as firewalls, IDS and commercial anti-virus software were still years away. Experts estimate that within a day, Morris Internet Worm infected […]

Microsoft Corp. is forging ahead with a corporate directive to improve security and privacy, instituting a companywide development policy and naming a new chief security strategist. The moves come just weeks after Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates sent a memo to all employees exhorting them to adopt Trustworthy Computing, Microsoft lingo for […]

PKI products have a reputation for being expensive, tortuous to implement and lacking in applications. But an Ottawa developer is hoping to change that with a public-key infrastructure plug-in for Microsoft Corp.s Outlook mail client. Kyberpass Corp. next week at the RSA Conference in San Jose, Calif., will unveil Secure E-mail TrustPlatform, a package comprising […]