Security company Symantec's acquisition of Veritas Software has the potential to benefit customers and shareholders of both companies, but details of the US$13.5 billion deal leave some important questions unanswered, according to executives and industry experts.
A new version of the Zafi e-mail worm is spreading Christmas wishes along with its malicious code, according to antivirus software companies.
Mazu Networks, the Cambridge, Massachusetts, network intrusion prevention system (IPS) technology company, has secured another round of venture capital funding, including a stake from security software giant Symantec.
3Com became the latest company to scoop up technology for preventing attacks on computer networks, announcing on Monday that it was acquiring TippingPoint Technologies for US$430 million in cash.
The number of phishing Web sites associated with online identity theft scams grew by 33 percent in November, after dropping off in September and early October, according to data compiled by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG).
The results of a survey conducted by Gartner show online consumers are growing frustrated with the lack of security provided by banks and online retailers, and feel that passwords are no longer sufficient to secure their online transactions.
Trend Micro will become the latest major antivirus software company to provide protection against mobile phone viruses, with new antivirus and antispam software for mobile phones running the Microsoft Windows Mobile and Symbian's operating systems.
Malicious hackers have compromised The SCO Group's Web page twice in as many days, posting messages that appear to mock the company's claims to own parts of the Linux operating system.
Citrix Systems is buying Net6, a privately-held maker of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology, for $US50 million cash.
An anonymous group of malicious hackers reopened an online store that sells the stolen source code of prominent software products and is offering the code for Cisco Systems Inc.'s PIX firewall software to interested parties for US$24,000, according to messages posted in online discussion groups.
After running into opposition to its Sender ID antispam plan, Microsoft has revised and resubmitted it to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for consideration, according to a company spokesperson.
Oracle is warning customers to apply software patches it released in August, citing the availability of malicious code that can exploit unpatched vulnerabilities in its software.
IBM and Cisco Systems unveiled product updates that will tie technology from the two companies more closely together in an effort to secure customer networks from worms and viruses.
Computer Associates International (CA) said on Wednesday that it was joining a Cisco Systems program to harden enterprise networks against attacks by enforcing security policies on computer hosts that attempt to access network resources, the company said in a statement.
Microsoft on Tuesday released 10 software security patches for its products, including seven it deemed critical and that could allow remote attackers to take control of systems running the company's software.
