Lisa Vaas

Jay Neely said it best in his Social Strategist blog: “Whenever Google enters a market, big changes happen.” Googles kept it mum, but it turns out that a year ago it launched an anti-malware team devoted to protecting its users from drive-by downloads. On May 21, the search giants Anti-Malware Team surfaced publicly, posting its […]

IBM, aiming for carriers and enterprises with high-throughput needs, unveiled a 6G-bps intrusion prevention appliance at Interop on May 22. The appliance, IBM says, can clean service provider pipes of malware lickety-split, with extremely high throughput, high scalability and low latency—indeed, what its calling “unsurpassed” performance in those areas. McAfee on the same day, also […]

In a recent report on enterprise security, the top reason survey respondents gave for adopting Windows Vista was that the new operating system is perceived as being more secure. The “Fourth Annual Enterprise Security Survey” was commissioned by secure-file-transfer software maker VanDyke Software and conducted by independent research firm Amplitude Research. According to the report, […]

At Interop on May 22 McAfee unveiled an IPS that cranks up to 10G bps—good enough to cover 10GigE Ethernet and next-generation IPv6 networks, the company said. On an Interop day full of network security “we did it firsts” (IBM said its newly announced 6G bps intrusion prevention appliance can clean service provider pipes of […]

Symantecs decision to file lawsuits against eight companies it accuses of selling pirated software was the latest move in the industrys continuing struggle against counterfeit products. That it was a top-tier security software provider also highlights the dangers to users who install pirated security products onto their systems. The eight separate lawsuits, filed over the […]

Juniper Networks jumped into the NAC lovefest at Interop on May 21, announcing that its working to get its Unified Access Control NAC server to interoperate with Microsofts Network Access Protection standard. Junipers Networks Infranet Controller is the policy management server at the center of Junipers UAC technology. Juniper said that by the first half […]

A lot of vendors selling a lot of components that have to agree on how to measure a lot of things have to come together to make an effective Network Access Control system. This involves vendors of hardware, security, network security, client security and operating systems deciding how to tell whos running a system trying […]

People will click on anything. That was evidenced by the 409 people who clicked on an ad that offers infection for those with virus-free PCs. The ad, run by a person who identifies himself as security professional Didier Stevens, reads like this: Drive-By Download Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here! drive-by-download.info Stevens, who […]

Microsoft has retrofitted two things: its advanced notifications of security bulletins—formerly so devoid of detail that customers complained it was like knowing a hurricane was coming but not when—and a finicky IE patch that wouldnt start IE for some users. Responding to customer requests for more detail, the company will debut a new ANS (Advanced […]

You lucky duck—you scored a $20 copy of Norton AntiVirus. Not only is your PC now safe from the clutches of bad guys, but you also saved a pretty penny to boot. Or, then again, not. After Symantec announced on May 16 that it is filing suit against eight alleged software pirates, I got on […]

Seven security companies have teamed up to hammer out an open standard to get edge devices—such as laptops and printers—chirping to each other in the wireless world. The group, called the OpenSEA (Open Security Edge Access) Alliance, says that the open-source standards to build secure networking technologies are lacking on the client side. “Why this […]

A Web application developer has uncovered a two-step process (PDF) for exploiting Windows Vistas User Account Control, essentially by having a Trojan piggyback on what could be a legitimate download. Robert Paveza, a senior Web application developer with Terralever, a Web-based marketing company based in Tempe, Ariz., published details of the vulnerability in a paper […]