Dennis Fisher

Guardent Inc. on Wednesday will unveil its new Security Defense Appliance, a Linux-based box that combines firewall, IDS and vulnerability scanning capabilities. The appliance is the centerpiece of a new service from the managed-security services company that will integrate security technologies with Guardents ability to correlate event data. Installed at client sites, the SDA is […]

Hackers who defaced the Web site of the U.S. General Accounting Office earlier this week say they acted to protest the U.S. war in Afghanistan as well as the plight of Palestinians and Kashmiris. Meanwhile, government officials say theyve discovered the security flaw exploited by the vandals, but expressed little hope of catching the perpetrators. […]

The Goner worm that tore through corporate networks last week is just the latest evidence that virus writers and crackers are growing ever more skillful. While its infection method is unremarkable and reminiscent of previous mass-mailing worms, Goners destructive payload deletes anti-virus files and installs a distributed-denial-of-service client on infected machines. Such blended threats, as […]

A group claiming to be part of a large hacker organization known as the Alqaeda Muslim Alliance compromised several servers belonging to the U.S. General Accounting Office in Washington on Sunday. The Anti India Crew apparently breached the security of at least one mail server, an FTP server and two Web servers, according to data […]

Four Israeli teens are in police custody after admitting Saturday to writing and then distributing the Goner virus, which tore through corporate networks worldwide last week, according to officials at Israels national police headquarters in Tel Aviv. The youths, aged 15 and 16, are high school students from Nahariya, in the northern part of Israel, […]

NEW YORK — Striking a cautious note, Newt Gingrich on Wednesday warned that government and corporate networks will be the targets of new and varied threats in the coming years that arent even on the map at present. Gingrich, the former speaker of the United States House of Representatives and current CEO of The Gingrich […]

The Goner worm that tore through corporate networks last week is simply one more bit of evidence that virus writers and crackers are growing ever more skillful and adept at their crafts, security experts said. While its infection method is unremarkable and reminiscent of numerous previous mass-mailing worms, Goner carries a destructive payload that not […]

In an effort to improve its battered security reputation, Microsoft Corp. is subjecting elements of its loosely defined .Net Framework to unprecedented levels of scrutiny. While early indications are that the Redmond, Wash., software maker is moving in the right direction, the code review and other radical elements of the companys new security strategy are […]

Nortel Networks Corp. last week unveiled a suite of products and services designed to increase the performance of corporate networks by eliminating the data bottleneck created by firewalls and other security applications. Known collectively as the Alteon Security Cluster, the products include the Alteon Web Switch, Alteon Security Appliances and custom software. The suite is […]

A fast-spreading e-mail worm infected thousands of home users over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend and began spreading in enterprises as well early last week. Known as Badtrans.B, the virus infects PCs through several methods, but the most troubling aspect of the new worm is its ability to install a keystroke logger and a backdoor Trojan. […]