IBM is making yet another splashy acquisition, this time in the data security arena. The computing giant will pay US$1.3 billion to acquire Internet Security Systems, it announced Wednesday. The deal, which values ISS at $28 per share in cash -- an 8 percent premium over the previous day's closing p...
Intrusion detection and prevention systems provider Internet Security Systems (ISS) issued a "protection advisory" targeting older versions of McAfee's anti-virus software engine last Thursday. Attackers are able to trigger a stack overflow within the process importing the McAfee AntiVirus Library,...
Online attackers today are using popular sources of pornographic images to target a recently revealed weakness in Microsoft software and to spread a Trojan that can provide remote access and control of infected computers. Just two weeks after Microsoft warned of a vulnerability in virtually all vers...
Linux vendors have issued patches to address vulnerability in Qt, a software toolkit that simplifies writing and maintaining GUI applications for the X Window system. The flaw was unveiled by security researcher Chris Evans, who uncovered a heap overflow in the BMP image decoder in Qt versions prior...
Police in Taiwan have arrested Wang An-ping, a 30-year-old man who reportedly admitted to authoring Trojan code later used to steal and destroy information on government-owned computers. The arrest marks the second major capture of the week in the information security enforcement arena. Also in cust...
A computer worm that targets antivirus or firewall protection is nothing new, but the most recent case of a direct attack against computer defenses unfolded with alarming speed, less than two days after vulnerabilities in Internet Security Systems' BlackICE and RealSecure software were disclosed. As...
With a mission squarely focused on securing the Internet through public policy, private industry participation and education, a dozen top security companies have formed the Cyber Security Industry Alliance, announced at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week. The companies, including...
Chris Klaus, the founder and chief technology officer of Internet Security Systems, was recently appointed to cochair the National Common Criteria Task Force. The task force will examine ways to improve "common criteria," a set of standards developed by a coalition of nations to help ensure that sof...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and a handful of other law enforcement agencies have charged 125 people with a host of Internet-related crimes, ranging from identity theft and software piracy to auction fraud and hacking. The FBI said those arrested so far in Operation Cyber Sweep are responsibl...
Marking a trend in which large security players are among the last to the party, Internet Security Systems released the first of its new Proventia G Series intrusion-prevention appliances this week, promising proactive protection and ease of use. Atlanta-based ISS said the G200 -- the first of its i...
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