Dennis Fisher

A privacy watchdog group on Tuesday ripped the latest draft of the Bush administrations anti-terror bill as vague and warned that the broad powers it grants the law enforcement community could lead to another Watergate. Officials from the Center for Democracy and Technology said the bill gives the government and law enforcement officials too much […]

Sun Microsystems Inc., along with dozens of partners from the high-tech, financial, automotive and travel industries, announced last week the creation of a group dedicated to developing an interoperable network identity technology. The coalition, known as the Liberty Alliance Project, was created to offer direct competition to Microsoft Corp.s Passport identity service. “Our goal is […]

Arbor Networks Inc. on Monday released the new version of its Peakflow DoS security software and announced a partnership with security consultant @stake Inc. Peakflow DoS is Arbors flagship product and is designed to defend against denial-of-service attacks. The new release, Version 1.5, delivers new data collection capabilities and gives users several new views of […]

As federal lawmakers try to line up support for a new key escrow system for encryption software, concern is growing within the cryptographic and security communities that such a measure would not only weaken the countrys defenses but hamstring its e-commerce and banking systems as well. The main proposal in the governments effort, drafted by […]

The SANS Institute and the FBIs National Infrastructure Protection Center on Monday released a scanning tool designed to find 20 common network vulnerabilities, as well as a document listing steps to fix each problem. The list is an expansion of the original Top Ten list released by the two groups last year and is meant […]

Security researchers have found a flaw in a popular digital-certificate management product that could enable an attacker to access a remote key server without having to enter a username or password. The vulnerability in PGP Key Server 7.0 enables an attacker to make configuration changes to the server but does not give him access to […]

Sun Microsystems Inc., along with dozens of partners from the high-tech, financial, automotive and travel industries, on Wednesday announced the creation of a new group dedicated to developing an interoperable network identity technology. The new coalition, known as the Liberty Alliance Project, means to compete directly with Microsoft Corp.s Passport identity service and is billing […]

A new virus that exploits public fear of terrorism in the wake of the recent attacks has begun appearing in the United States but is unlikely to spread very far, experts say. The virus, known variously as W32.Vote and Troj_Vote, is a garden-variety mass mailer, except for two unique characteristics: It arrives with an executable […]

A new virus that exploits public fear of terrorism in the wake of the recent attacks has begun appearing in the United States but is unlikely to spread very far, experts say. The virus, known variously as W32.Vote and Troj_Vote, is a garden-variety mass mailer, except for two unique characteristics: It arrives with an executable […]

Although the spread of the Nimda worm seems to be slowing, some companies and service providers are still crippled by the damage the virus wrought last week. Customers of broadband provider XO Communications Inc., of Reston, Va., say that they have been unable to access pages in their private domains for nearly a week thanks […]