Security Notes

Entrust snaps up Business Signatures

2006-07-20T12:04:55-05:00

Entrust today announced it closed a deal last night to buy Redwood City, Calif.-based Business Signatures for $50 million....

For he's a jolly good "Technical Fellow"

2006-07-19T12:38:32-05:00

"Technical Fellow" is the new job title for Mark Russinovich, co-founder of Winternals with Bryce Cogswell. Yesterday Microsoft announced it acquired Winternals for an undisclosed...

Security and mobile computing

2006-07-18T14:06:16-05:00

Mobile computng, especially when associated with the plethora of handheld devices on the market today, is a network manager's headache when it comes to security....

What I did on my summer vacation (toying with smart car keys and the Web overseas)

2006-07-17T12:50:35-05:00

Spending two weeks in the Dordogne region of France with family was a retreat from the the Web and network technology. In a region famous...

On vacation

2006-07-05T10:22:21-05:00

Ellen Messmer is on vacation, well earned, by the way. -- The Editors....

EMC wins RSA in secret bidding war

2006-06-30T14:38:40-05:00

Storage vendor EMC won a secret bidding war to buy RSA Security for over $2 billion, with the deal expected to officially close by early...

OMB's get-tough policy on data security

2006-06-29T12:38:50-05:00

The Office of Management & Budget, the arm of the White House responsible for overseeing the federal agencies, is adopting a get-tough attitude in the...

RSA's chip shot

2006-06-28T10:42:43-05:00

RSA Security and Broadcom Corp. yesterday said they've entered an arrangement under which Broadcom is licensing the RSA SecurID technology for integration in the Broadcom...

Terrorists and the SWIFT network

2006-06-27T09:58:13-05:00

What a lot of righteous indignation from the White House that the major newspapers, the New York Times, Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and...

A man in search of rootkits

2006-06-26T09:27:47-05:00

People are often drawn to search for their roots, but not too many go in search of rootkits. Mark Russinovich, co-founder of Winternals Software, has...

Bad week for the feds

2006-06-23T09:02:46-05:00

Just when the uproar over the massive data loss at the Dept. of Veterans Affairs is dying down a bit, two more federal agencies --...

A token gesture?

2006-06-22T09:27:56-05:00

The recent news item here about Citibank mandating use of security tokens for its small-to-midsize business customers in the U.S. drew interesting responses from readers....

How not to excel at Excel

2006-06-21T09:24:29-05:00

Yet another hole was found in Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet yesterday, the second this week, which Microsoft says it's investigating. In the meantime, if you're worried...

Hospitals and innovation

2006-06-20T09:07:55-05:00

While healthcare providers perform wonders of medicine these days, we don't typically associate them with innovation in networking. But in our story this week "An...

Encryption security standards: what's new

2006-06-19T09:39:20-05:00

This week's Technology Update in Network World focuses on two upcoming encryption standards for protecting data stored on tape and on disk....

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