Brian Prince

A popular brand of calculators is being infected by a new virus that causes screens to read, “t89.GARRA.” The virus, which attacks Texas Instruments TI89 and compatible calculators, doesnt do any permanent harm, but Texas Instruments engineers havent found a way to disable it either. And while the author of the virus has been charitable […]

Security vendor McAfee has a new strategy to plunge deeper into the market for midsize companies. Armed with an expanded sales team and a retooled version of Secure Internet Gateway, McAfee is aiming at better penetration of the security market for businesses with 100 to 1000 users. Calling the market underserved, McAfees Darrell Rodenbaugh said […]

Altova has released new versions of its XML development, data management and other products with tighter integration with the IBM DB2 9 data server. The new offerings, part of Altovas Version 2007 Release 3 product line, extend functionality within the companys XMLSpy, MapForce, StyleVision and DatabaseSpy products and expand users ability to edit, exchange, transform […]

Finnish security vendor F-Secure has patched multiple vulnerabilities in its software, including a buffer overflow vulnerability affecting a number of its products. The buffer overflow vulnerability lies in the processing of LHA archives and may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or create a denial-of-service condition. This flaw is related to a similar problem […]

VeriSign has named William A. Roper Jr. president and chief executive officer following the resignation of former CEO Stratton D. Sclavos. “VeriSign is a highly respected company with an attractive business model and leading positions in growing markets,” Roper said in a statement. “I look forward to working with VeriSigns management team to capitalize on […]

Security researchers at San Diego-based Akonix Systems Inc., a provider of instant messaging security and compliance products, have uncovered 170 IM threats this year—an increase of 73 percent from the same time period in 2006. The companys IM Security Center researchers tracked 20 malicious code attacks over IM networks during the month of May, Akonix […]

Security research firm Immunity released exploit code for a serious bug affecting Mac OS X less than 24 hours after Apple released a patch for it. The flaw is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the UPnP Internet Gateway Device Standardized Device Control code used to create port mappings on home NAT (Network Address Translation) gateways […]

The Better Business Bureau has issued a fraud alert regarding the resurgence of a spam attack that targets high-level executives in various industries. The spam e-mails purport to be sent by the BBB in an effort to entice users to click on a malicious link. The SANS Institute reported a similar wave of targeted spam […]

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board voted May 24 to approve Auditing Standard No. 5, complementing new guidelines given the thumbs up by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that are aimed at making it easier and less expensive for public companies to comply with the auditing requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. But […]

A new variant of the Russian Trojan Gozi is circulating on the Web, this time armed with a keylogging function and the ability to scramble itself so it is difficult to detect by anti-virus software. The Trojan is believed to have been spreading since April 17. Like the original, which was discovered earlier in 2007, […]