Paul F. Roberts

Security products that perform health checks on desktop and laptop computers will be in abundance at this weeks RSA Conference. But industry leaders Cisco Systems and Microsoft remain mum about a long-promised integration of their dominant network access control architectures, leaving IT managers wondering whether to go with one of the solutions that is already […]

Qualys on Feb. 13 announced a new on-site vulnerability management and policy compliance service: Qualys @Customer. The new service allows Qualys customers to host installations of the QualysGuard vulnerability management service and retain local control of security data. The news comes as Qualys makes plans for a major expansion of its SAAS (software as a […]

U.S. Government officials and private sector representatives held a press conference the afternoon of Feb. 10 to declare the Cyber Storm digital war game exercise a success. The governments first full-scale exercise to test federal, state and local response to a cyber-attack improved coordination between the public and private sectors and government agencies, according to […]

A 20-year-old California man was indicted in Seattle Feb. 10 on charges that he used a computer “bot” network to cause computer malfunctions at Seattles Northwest Hospital in January of 2005. Christopher Maxwell, of Vacaville, Calif., was indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of conspiracy to cause damage to a protected computer […]

Security and communications company VeriSign is buying Snapcentric, a maker of transaction monitoring software that can spot fraud, phishing attacks and other threats, according to a company executive. Details of the purchase were still being resolved late Feb. 8, and VeriSign said it plans to disclose details of the purchase Feb. 9. The company said […]

Microsoft on Feb. 9 issued preview versions of its Internet Security and Acceleration Server, Client Protection and Antigen products. The company announced that it is making early versions of the products available to certain customers for testing, citing demand for new tools to shore up security branch office environments and reduce the complexity of managing […]

Security gear maker SonicWall said Feb. 8 that it has acquired e-mail security vendor MailFrontier for $31 million in cash. The deal will add MailFrontiers messaging security software and hardware to SonicWalls portfolio of security hardware and software products for small and midsize businesses, according to a statement from SonicWall. /zimages/6/28571.gifClick here to read about […]

Malicious hackers who are able to hijack an organizations Web domain may be able to steal traffic from the legitimate Web site long after the domain has been restored to its owner, according to a recent report. Design flaws in the way Web browsers and proxy servers store data about Web sites allow malicious hackers […]

Symantec said Feb. 7 that it reached an agreement to buy Relicore, which makes change and configuration management software for corporate data centers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Relicore, of Burlington, Mass., makes Clarity, which is software that can scan a companys servers. Symantec plans to use Relicores technology with its server management […]

Juniper Networks unveiled a new integrated router and security appliance on Feb. 6: the Secure Services Gateway 500 Series. The SSG is a LAN/WAN router that sports an integrated firewall, VPN, and will eventually support anti-virus, anti-spam and Web filtering features, according to Adam Conway, product line manager for Junipers Security Products Group. The SSG […]

CipherTrust on Feb. 6 plans to announce a new service that will allow companies to monitor their brands and spot online scams, such as phishing attacks, that use their names. CipherTrust Radar 360 and CipherTrust Radar Inside are hosted security services that identify traffic from compromised hosts on enterprise networks, and find the sources of […]

U.S. Government agencies are conducting electronic war games this week to test the governments ability to respond to the digital equivalent of Hurricane Katrina. The exercise, dubbed “Operation Cyber Storm,” was postponed for two months because of Katrina, but will take place between Feb. 6 and Feb. 10. The exercise will mimic the effects of […]