Wayne Rash

America Online Inc.s announcement Wednesday that it would abandon its attempts to support Microsofts Sender ID e-mail authentication standard are a serious setback for the Redmond, Wash., software company. “Given recent concerns expressed by the Internet Engineering Task Force [IETF], coupled with the tepid support for Sender ID in the open-source community, AOL has decided […]

WASHINGTON—When the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee approved the Internet Spyware Prevention Act of 2004 last week, some in Congress predicted that it would solve the problem of spyware thats wreaking havoc on many personal and enterprise computers. The penalties—up to five years in prison for using spyware to further another illegal act such […]

BorderWare Technologies Inc. has joined Ingate Systems AB and others in providing an edge solution to the external threat problem in voice-over-IP PBXes. The Toronto-based company said Tuesday that it is shipping its new SIPassure-400 firewall, which is designed to keep out traditional threats to the enterprise and also threats unique to VOIP. The firewall […]

TeleCommunication Systems Inc. on Monday announced that it has agreed to acquire mobile applications provider Kivera Inc. TCS is already the leading provider of Enhanced 911 services in the United States, covering about half the population, according to a spokesperson for the Annapolis, Md.-based company. Using its existing abilities to provide precise locations of wireless […]

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have reported the discovery of several potential vulnerabilities in the Kerberos Key Distribution Center that could allow an attacker to run malicious code on the target machine. As reported earlier, a fix is expected for these vulnerabilities in the near future. In the case of Cisco VPN products […]