Paul F. Roberts

ISPs, large enterprises and e-mail security companies are hoping that an industry meeting in New York this week will breathe life into a flagging effort to thwart spam and e-mail viruses through the adoption of e-mail sender authentication technology. The Email Authentication Implementation Summit will call attention to a smorgasbord of technologies that have emerged […]

Millions of U.S. military computers will be protected from spyware using software from Computer Associates, the company said Wednesday. The Defense Information Systems Agency awarded Science Applications International Corp. and Computer Associates International Inc. a $6.9 million order to provide an enterprisewide spyware detection, eradication and protection product, which DISA calls “SDEP.” As part of […]

Micromuse of San Francisco said on Friday that it is buying GuardedNet Inc. of Atlanta, Ga., for $16.2 million. The acquisition will add GuardedNets security and risk management technology to Micromuse Inc.s Netcool system management software suite, according to a Micromuse statement. GuardedNet is a 6-year-old, 42-person company that sells SIEM (security information and event […]

The U.S. governments computer watchdog group issued a warning Thursday about possible attacks on systems running computer backup software from Veritas. The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) said that systems running Veritas Backup Exec Agent software are being actively exploited on the Internet through a publicly available exploit code that compromises a recently disclosed […]

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday announced arrests in a massive, international undercover operation called “Operation Site Down,” which targeted underground piracy networks called “warez groups.” In a news conference Thursday, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said the FBI and authorities in Canada, France, Israel, the United Kingdom, Australia and Germany carried out more than […]

Incidents of the online identity theft scams known as phishing attacks increased by more than 200 percent in May, according to figures released by IBM. The Armonk, N.Y., company published the new phishing statistics in its May Global Business Security Index. IBM Corp. said that networks of compromised computers known as “botnets” may be responsible […]

Two men and one woman were sentenced to prison terms Tuesday after pleading guilty to defrauding home improvement giants The Home Depot Inc. and Lowes Companies Inc. of more than $200,000 by selling improperly obtained store cards and merchandise on eBay. David Oliver, 36, was sentenced to three years, 10 months in prison. Accomplices Mindy […]

Internet service provider EarthLink Inc. will partner with anti-fraud vendor Cyota to improve EarthLinks ScamBlocker anti-phishing program, the companies said Monday. EarthLink will incorporate data from Cyotas FraudAction anti-phishing service into ScamBlocker. The partnership will allow EarthLink to block access to phishing sites for its users, preventing them from being victimized by phishers, said Naftali […]

A new software release from Secure Software Inc. is designed to make it easier for organizations doing software development to spot and resolve security flaws in raw computer code. Secure Software, based in McLean, Va., planned to release in late June CodeAssure 2.0, the latest edition of its automated code security auditing technology. The upgrade […]

Two leading identity management vendors are updating their product suites and expanding into areas such as federated ID management. BMC Software Inc. planned to unveil in late June its new BMC Identity Management suite along with a road map of future releases. The news follows Sun Microsystems Inc.s announcement in June of additions to its […]