Matt Hines

Microsoft delivered its monthly batch of security updates on Feb. 13, delivering fixes for 20 individual problems in its products included in a dozen bulletins, six of which were dubbed as critical, the firms most severe vulnerability rating. Among the security updates issued by Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft was a cumulative bulletin for the companys Internet […]

After a tumultuous final month of 2006—which included a $90 million buyout of PortAuthority Technologies on the upside, and a disappointing fourth-quarter earnings report on the downside—Websense Chief Executive Gene Hodges says his company is ready to increase its presence with enterprise customers in 2007 based on its newly expanded collection of security filtering tools […]

At last years RSA conference, executives with anti-malware specialist Sophos said the company was intentionally flying under the radar as it put the finishing touches on a new integrated security strategy. A year later, the executives said the company is not only putting that plan to work but beating also its larger rivals out of […]

Mcafee is making an initial foray into the emerging data loss prevention software market with the launch of a set of tools to manage the flow of sensitive information across corporate networks and endpoint devices. Built through a combination of internal development and McAfees October acquisition of Onigma, the package, McAfee DLP Host, introduced Feb. […]

The ongoing struggle between botnet operators and the security researchers who look for ways to shut them down is almost as much cloak-and-dagger as it is alerts and software solutions. At the RSA Conference here Feb. 7, two security researchers demonstrated their techniques for catching botnet operators, who use secret legions of infected computers to […]

Now more than ever before, enterprises and organizations such as banks, financial services companies and government agencies are looking for new ways to automate their video surveillance systems to allow for real-time analysis, remote monitoring and other emerging security applications. Networking giant Cisco Systems contends that it can play a major role in this transformation […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The United States government is better suited than ever to defend the nations computing and communications networks, but federal watchdogs will need private industry to lend a hand to keep attackers at bay, according to the first-ever federal cyber-security czar. Addressing a crowded room of attendees at the ongoing RSA Security Conference here on […]

SAN FRANCISCO—A sleek, silver, nearly weightless gizmo that fits in your hand represents the next generation of security for customers of eBays PayPal division. The diminutive machine is a wireless password-generation device that the company plans to begin distributing to its users beginning on Feb. 12 to help its customers further validate the authenticity of […]

Microsoft reported Feb. 8 that it will ship a dozen security bulletins, including five updates meant to fix critical Windows flaws, as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday updating process on Feb. 13. The software giant, based in Redmond, Wash., indicated that it will deliver its largest array of security updates in a single month […]

SAN FRANCISCO—A pair of security researchers speaking here at the ongoing RSA Conference Feb. 7 demonstrated their techniques for catching botnet operators who use secret legions of infected computers to distribute malware programs and violent political propaganda. The botnet experts, both of whom are employed by anti-malware software maker FaceTime Communications, based in Foster City, […]