Dennis Fisher

NEW YORK—Regulations governing information security in both publicly held and private companies are a question of when, not if, and CIOs and CSOs should begin preparing for that inevitability now, experts said during morning presentations at the eWEEK Security Summit here Wednesday. The current climate surrounding the issues of corporate governance and privacy and the […]

A fourth version of the Sasser worm was at work late last week infecting Windows machines. The Sasser worm family, like its namesake, journeyman major-league catcher Mackey Sasser, who once became so overcome by nerves that he couldnt throw the ball back to the pitcher and tried to reinvent himself as a first baseman and […]

Microsoft Corp. is in the process of reworking some of the pieces of its much-publicized and oft-criticized Next Generation Secure Computing Base technology in response to feedback from both partners and potential customers. The company is working to tweak the APIs to make it easier for other software makers to write compatible applications for the […]

Searching for a way to stem the tide of spam flooding its customers inboxes, Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday will announce that it has joined a program that certifies e-mail senders as legitimate and requires them to post a financial bond guaranteeing their continued good behavior. The program, known as Bonded Sender, is the brainchild of […]

A fourth version of the Sasser worm is now at work infecting Windows machines, and this one has the potential to cause serious network slowdowns and outages, experts say. The Sasser worm family, like its namesake, journeyman major league catcher Mackey Sasser, who once became so overcome by nerves that he couldnt throw the ball […]

Richard Clarke, the former top cyber-security adviser to the president, will be delivering a keynote speech at the eWEEK Security Summit next week in New York. Clarke will be addressing the wide range of security risks that enterprises are up against and also plans to talk about the various ways companies can protect their networks. […]

With two variants of the Sasser worm already infecting computers through a recent vulnerability in Windows, security experts now are tracking a third version of the worm and an exploit that attacks the same flaw. Sasser.C is closely related to the two earlier versions of the worm, except for the fact that it spawns 1024 […]

A new breed of sophisticated e-mail attack that is difficult to detect and defend against is further proof that cyber-criminals and scam artists are getting more serious about their efforts to steal information. The new attack is an enhanced form of phishing, scams that are defined as attempts to steal credit card data and other […]

Two new mass-mailing worms hit corporate networks Wednesday, continuing what has been a miserable spring for IT managers who have had to deal with an unrelenting rash of malware. The two newest entrants are Bagle.AA and Netsky.AB, both of which have been rated as medium risks by antivirus vendors. There is little new in either […]

MCI Inc. on Tuesday will announce a new set of managed security services, many of which involve partnerships with vendors such as VeriSign Inc. and MessageLabs Inc. In addition to traditional services offerings such as mail scanning and managed firewall, the companies plan to offer enterprises the option of a managed intrusion prevention system (IPS), […]