Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 was released yesterday and is now available for download. Fixes are included for the international domain name (IDN) link buffer overflow vulnerability and the Linux command line URL parsing flaw.

'We commend AOL for taking advantage of our industry-leading anti-spyware solution to protect their users from these pervasive threats,' said Jeff Clarke, CA's Chief Operating Officer, as America Online yesterday launched AOL Spyware Protection 2.0 powered by by e...

Microsoft has announced the acquisition of Alacris Inc., a global provider of certificate management and identity assurance software products, an acquisition that enhances Microsoft's declared strategy of providing easily administered identity and access management solutions.

'Attackers are moving away from large, multipurpose attacks on network perimeters and toward smaller, more targeted attacks directed at Web and client-side applications,' said Arthur Wong, vice president of Symantec Security Response and Managed Security Service...

HP and Peregrine Systems have agreed that HP will acquire Peregrine for $26.08 per share, representing an aggregate equity value of $425 million. Upon close of the acquisition, Peregrine, and its leading IT asset and service management software portfolio, will b...

DataDirect Technologies, the software industry leader in standards-based components for connecting applications to data, and an operating unit of Progress Software Corporation, announced that the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD), United Kingdom's officia...

Project MegaGrid, launched in December 2004 by Dell Inc., EMC Corporation, Intel Corporation, and Oracle, announced that Phase II of the multi-year initiative has produced dynamic provisioning best practices to manage heavy workloads in a grid computing environment.

HP announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AppIQ, a leading provider of open storage area network management and storage resource management technologies that help enterprise customers manage servers and storage.

Protegrity Corporation has announced the availability of a new suite of services designed to help companies mitigate the risks and costs related to data security breaches and non-compliance with security regulations and policies.

Symantec Corp. released the eighth volume of its Internet Security Threat Report, one of the most comprehensive sources of Internet threat data in the world. The semiannual report identified new methods of using malicious code for financial gain with increasing fr...

Sarbanes-Oxley and similar regulatory mandates require enterprises to document and disseminate specific policies and internal controls used to ensure compliance with corporate governance objectives. Now two companies have joined together to help corporations and ...

iApple updated its 3U Xserve RAID rack storage system this week to a hefty 7TB capacity, saying it would sell it for the 'industry's most aggressive price' of $1.86 per gigabyte.

Malware-fighting specialists PandaLabs has managed to close the web page that hosted one of the files of the P2Load.A 'Google-spoofing' worm, after contacting the Internet Service Provider hosting the file.

GoAhead Software, the expert in building integrated middleware for highly available systems, announced the availability of GoAhead SelfReliant 5.0 - Early Access Release, its carrier-grade, application ready high availability software platform. The newest releas...

Covast, a leading provider of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) integration solutions for collaborative business environments, has been included in a recent research report conducted by Gartner, Inc., an independent industry research and advisory firm.

MaximumSoft Corp. announced the release of WebCopier 4.3. The program allows to download entire Web sites, store them locally and view them later, at users' convenience. WebCopier provides access to the downloaded information at any time, no matter where its users...

Calling it an extension of its leadership in the database security tools market, SoftTree Technologies, Inc. announced immediate availability of DB Audit Expert 2.7. This new version extends multi-vendor database support with advanced security auditing solutions...

A nonprofit program specializing in identity theft, The Identity Theft Resource Center, published today a comprehensive study of identity theft indicating a jump in child and family identity theft and revealing secondary effects of this crime that have never been explored or exposed.

Trend Micro has announced the results of a study that reveal why some end users in enterprise environments around the world are more likely to engage in riskier online behavior at work than home. The findings place added emphasis on the security challenge IT organ...

ANTs software, a developer of high-performance SQL database management systems, announced that 2M Technologies, Inc. (www.2mtech.com), a provider of CRM, Logistics, accounting and ERP business solutions, has licensed the ANTs Data Server to power its ResponsePro...

Apple has updated its Xserve RAID rack storage system to deliver a massive 7 terabytes of storage capacity and has upgraded its Xserve 1U rack optimized server with up to three 500GB drives, achieving a groundbreaking 1.5TB of storage.

Sun has announced the availability of seven new storage solutions, less than two weeks after adding the acclaimed family of StorageTek archiving and Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) products and services to its storage arsenal.

Fargo Electronics launched its SecureVault ID Management System at the ASIS International Seminar and Exhibits. SecureVault is a secure inventory management system for ID card issuance applications.

McAfee, Inc., the leader in Intrusion Prevention and Security Risk Management Solutions, and Secure Computing Corporation, the experts in securing connections between people, applications, and networks, announced that the McAfee Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) and...

Quest Software Inc, a leading provider of application, database and infrastructure management solutions, announced a beta version of Quest Toad for DB2, a full-featured database development solution that increases user productivity for SQL development and database object management.

SSH Communications Security Corp, which focuses on enterprise security solutions and end-to-end communications security, and the original developer of the Secure Shell protocol, announced immediate availability of the new SSH Tectia Server product for IBM mainframes.

24 hours after announcing that it would, as usual, be releasing a security update this coming Tuesday, the second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft earlier this week canceled the update. The reason? The update simply wasn't of a sufficiently high quality yet. 'It is...

'Oracle put Siebel investors out of their misery today,' SalesForce.com's Marc Benioff declared today to his employees and management team as Oracle agreed to buy Siebel for $10.66 a share. 'We have been doing that for Siebel customers for years.' SalesForce.com's...

VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems, announced that customers purchasing the VMware P2V Migrations Jumpstart service will receive the VMware P2V Assistant product for free.

Two vulnerabilities have been identified in the Linux kernel, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges, cause a denial of service, or disclose sensitive information.

ASE 15, launched today, has a complete, easy-to-implement, encryption-based privacy system that does not require application modifications, Sybase says. New capabilities enhance the system's availability, whereby partitioning allows placement of data partitions ...

'If you can avoid falling into the the trap of the first three, you're among the few true computer security elite,' writes world-renowned expert on security system design Marcus Ranum in an editorial that's being much discussed on the web this morning, in which Ra...

On Thursday a security flaw affecting all versions of Mozilla Firefox and the Mozilla Suite was posted by Secunia; Firefox and Mozilla users now have access to a downloadable fix that patches the problem for the moment. The vulnerability will be fixed in beta 2 of Firefox 1.5.

The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) has offered a set of tips to help consumers avoid becoming a victim of an online relief scam or security attack.

DataMirror announced the expansion of its partnership with Australian software developer and integration specialist, Eucalypt Software Partners (Eucalypt), to provide strengthened enterprise application solutions to customers undertaking integration projects. The ...

The European IT industry is rapidly embracing Business Service Management (BSM), the software solution that provides organisations with a real-time and holistic view of the impact IT outages have on critical business services, a new survey has revealed.

Summit Financial Solutions, a leading developer of check imaging solutions, announced that it has signed agreements with Computer Services, Inc., (CSI) to add the Summit.NET Branch Capture and Merchant Capture solutions to CSI's line of comprehensive banking solutions.

Validian Corporation, a leader in the development of innovative application-level security software, announced that USA FutureTech Inc. has utilized Validian ASI and the ASI software development kit to secure applications for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority.

The Cisco IOS Firewall Authentication Proxy for FTP and/or Telnet Sessions feature in specific versions of Cisco IOS software is vulnerable to a remotely-exploitable buffer overflow condition. Devices that do not support, or are not Cisco has made free software ...

IT security is a universal concern in the global small and medium business (SMB) space. For SMBs in Japan, however, adopting IT security solutions is no longer just a matter of interest -- it is now a legal requirement. On April 1, 2005, Japan's Personal Data Prot...