Brian Prince

Secure Computing saw its second-quarter revenues jump by nearly 50 percent compared to the same period last year. According to the companys earnings report, announced July 26, its quarterly revenues totaled $57.6 million, compared to $38.7 million during the same period last year and an increase of roughly $3.8 million over the first quarter. “Q2 […]

Security vendors McAfee and Secunia are each offering new freeware aimed at protecting users. McAfee announced the release July 26 of Rootkit Detective, a tool to help users clean their machines of the most notorious types of weapons hackers have at their disposal. Rootkits can be difficult to detect because they activate before an operating […]

iPhone. Whether enterprises are prepared or not, it has arrived. Less than a month into its release, Apples multimedia, Internet-enabled phone has already received criticism regarding security, highlighted by attempts to unlock the iPhone for networks other than AT&T and a well-publicized exploit crafted by Independent Security Evaluators, Baltimore-based security testers. It is only natural […]

Officials at Untangle are planning a face off between open-source and proprietary anti-virus products at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in August. Untangle, a provider of open-source network security tools, is hosting “The Untangle AV Fight Club,” a head-to-head competition between open-source Clam Antivirus (ClamAV) and proprietary products from SonicWall, McAfee and others. The test […]

“Pump-and-dump” spammers have found a new package for their scam: Excel files. Commtouch researchers reported the appearance of pump-and-dump spam in Excel files for the first time on July 21. The spam promotes stocks in file attachments with names such as “invoice20202.xls,” “stock information-3572.xls” and “requested report.xls.” “Excel is a logical progression from older formats, […]

SonicWall is releasing the latest version of its newly acquired Aventail Secure Sockets Layer VPN remote access platform to help businesses manage security threats and control remote access. The July 23 release, which features smart-phone support, comes on the heels of SonicWalls recent acquisition of Aventail, which closed July 11. SonicWall officials said the platform […]

Symantec officials say their new Norton AntiBot utility offers users an extra level of protection against bots in order to complement anti-virus products. AntiBot, which is compatible with security products from other vendors, actively monitors a users computer and removes detected Web robots and other malicious software at the deepest levels of their Windows system, […]

Now that Oracle has officially unveiled its much-awaited 11g database, industry observers are wondering how quickly users will upgrade to the latest offering. A survey of members of the Independent Oracle Users Group who attended the groups annual conference put the number at 35 percent within the first 12 months of the launch. An ambitious […]

Security vendors warn image spammers are increasingly using PDF files to bypass spam filters. Researchers at BorderWare Technologies, based in Toronto, reported that on any given day more than 30 image spam campaigns are being run, with more than half of those being PDF-based. The findings come as a number of vendors have reported that […]

Oracle is buying Bharosa, a provider of software that helps combat online identity theft and fraud. Financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close in August, were not disclosed. Oracle officials, in announcing the deal July 18, said they plan to add the real-time fraud prevention capabilities of Bharosas Tracker and Authenticator software […]