Dennis Fisher

Plumbing the depths of its downward spiral, Baltimore Technologies plc. is once again in the throes of a reorganization that will have the security vendor banking on wireless PKI and managed services, two areas with long-term promise but few immediate rewards. The Dublin, Ireland, company last week said it is cutting 220 more jobs and […]

Russ Cooper has been on the Internet security scene for more than 20 years and has never been afraid to speak his mind. In the wake of the recent Code Red attacks, Cooper, surgeon general at TruSecure Corp., in Reston, Va., and moderator of the NTBugtraq mailing list, is advocating a new approach to releasing […]

Recent threats such as the Code Red and Leave worms are proof that virus writers and hackers are pooling resources to produce hybrid weapons that can cause tremendous damage. Now, a group of security companies is following suit, hoping that by combining their efforts, theyll be better able to combat the new, sophisticated attacks. McAfee, […]

As the Code Red II worm tore through the Internet last week, infecting servers at Microsoft Corp. and causing outages around the country, security experts worried that this latest attack is just a dry run for crackers gearing up for something far worse. The worm, which first appeared Aug. 4, uses the widely publicized .ida […]

As the Internet community scrambled to prepare for the re-emergence of the Code Red worm last week, security experts said the worm presages more widespread and damaging attacks of this kind. More importantly, it illustrates how the point of attack is moving from the network to the application. While most administrators and security specialists have […]

In the wake of the massive infection of Web servers by the Code Red worm, systems administrators and security experts are doing a lot of finger-pointing over who is to blame for one of the Internets most far-reaching security events. Many feel that the responsibility belongs to the administrators who failed to heed repeated warnings […]

Microsoft Corp. fired final parting shots at Sun Microsystems Inc. and Java by dropping its Java Virtual Machine from the forthcoming Windows XP operating system. In addition, it has moved to block the ability for Java applets to run by default within the Outlook client. The moves crystallize the ongoing separation between Microsofts .Net and […]

As PKI vendors struggle to find new applications and markets for their technology, debate is brewing around one of the nascent standards they hope will help spur widespread implementation of public-key infrastructure in handheld devices. While both sides contend they have users interests in mind, a protracted debate on the Extensible Markup Language Key Management […]

For Brooks Martin, patching and maintaining his Microsoft Corp. IIS Web servers is almost a full-time job. With so many vulnerabilities—and with a new patch appearing seemingly every week—Martin said its a struggle keeping his head above water. “We stay on top of what we do, but you never know,” said Martin, CEO of isObject […]

Public-key infrastructure has taken its lumps for years, as have its users. But when CEO Fran Rooney walked out the door of PKI vendor Baltimore Technologies plc., in Dublin, Ireland, last week, many saw it as the beginning of the end for the technology. Now more than ever, customers—who have watched Baltimore and other PKI […]

Several serious vulnerabilities in Cisco Systems Inc.s Internetwork Operating System could catch unawares some enterprises that run the companys popular lines of routers and switches. The networking company last week revealed several security holes that could allow attackers to gain control of devices running IOS or recover a secured session key. The most serious vulnerability […]

Best known for its networking software and frequent strategy shifts, Novell Inc. is set to roll out this summer new products in an effort to reshape itself as a security company. The Provo, Utah, vendor last week spelled out the details of its forthcoming iChain 2.0 access-control software, which will include a host of enhanced […]