Dennis Fisher

Anti-virus vendor Trend Micro last week announced its acquisition of Kelkea, a small provider of IP filtering and reputation services. Kelkea provides a service that monitors e-mail traffic entering customers networks and identifies the IP addresses sending that traffic. The service then develops a reputation for each IP address based on the amount of spam […]

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a “nano-printer” technique for mass-producing nano-devices. The method, supramolecular nano-stamping, involves individual strands of DNA that can assemble themselves on a surface in any pattern, duplicating an original design. Each duplicate pattern can then be used as a master pattern. The MIT team believes the clearest current use […]

Microsoft last week submitted its final proposal on how it plans to deal with European Commission antitrust sanctions imposed last year. The software maker paid a $654 million fine to the EC as a result of the commissions finding that embedding programs such as Windows Media Player in the Windows operating system is anti-competitive and […]

British researchers have built tiny aircraft that use Linux to perform parallel processing operations and can communicate with one another via Bluetooth. The aircraft are meant to fly together in a kind of flock or swarm and send data back to a central computer. The researchers, at Englands University of Essex, have equipped the copters […]

3Com last week named Marc Willebeek-LeMair, a founder of the companys TippingPoint security division, as its new chief technology officer. Willebeek-LeMair helped found TippingPoint, one of the first intrusion prevention vendors, and joined 3Com when the networking vendor purchased TippingPoint last year. Following the acquisition, Willebeek-LeMair served as CTO of the security division and oversaw […]

David Nagel, president and CEO of handheld software maker PalmSource, resigned last week. Patrick McVeigh, the companys vice president of worldwide licensing, was named interim CEO. Nagel plans to stay with the company through July as a consultant. He had been CEO since 2001 and led the company through a transition, during which it spun […]

A new timing attack against the AES algorithm can be used to extract entire Advanced Encryption Standard keys from remote servers. Daniel Bernstein, an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, recently released a paper showing how an attack against a server running the OpenSSL AES implementation could recover the entire encryption key. […]

PalmOne announced on Tuesday that Ed Colligan will permanently assume the role of CEO. Colligan has served as interim CEO since early this year, when former CEO Todd Bradley stepped down. Colligan joined PalmOnes predecessor, Palm Computing, in 1993 as vice president of marketing and was part of the team that helped launch the original […]

The Federal Trade Commission, perhaps having run out of things to do, suggested that Americans forgo giving jewelry and flowers on Mothers Day and instead give mothers an FTC e-card, which includes tips on safeguarding their personal data. The FTCs e-card message is set to cloying piano music and starts with a Hallmark-esque poem thanking […]

Internet Security Systems Inc. this week will unveil its Proventia Desktop intrusion prevention system offering and introduce a virus-fighting technology that does not rely on digital audiotape files or signatures to detect malware. Known as the Virus Prevention System, the feature employs virtual-machine technology to prevent viruses from executing on PCs. When the Proventia software […]