Paul Roberts

Sun Microsystems Inc. and antivirus company Symantec Corp. are releasing a "no hassles" intrusion detection system (IDS) appliance targeted at the enterprise and service provider markets, the two companies announced at the RSA Conference in San Francisco.

In a sign that it is continuing to digest the technology it swallowed with three high-profile purchases last July, Symantec Corp. has announced an upgrade to the DeepSight Threat Management System, which it acquired with its purchase of SecurityFocus Inc.

A new working group within the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) will focus on ways to develop secure Web services, according to a statement released by the WS-I on Tuesday.

The Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera suffered a second day of sustained distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks against its English and Arabic language Web sites on Wednesday.

In the storm of "what ifs" that raged on U.S. airwaves in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, one of the most persistent scenarios envisioned terrorists smuggling a weapon of mass destruction into the U.S. in one of the approximately 5.7 million sea containers processed by the U.S. Customs Service each year.

A recent report by market research firm IDC predicts that North America will lose its standing as the world

Prosecutions continued in a year-old U.S. government sting of Internet software piracy group Drink Or Die Wednesday, as U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty announced the indictment of Hew Raymond Griffiths on charges of criminal copyright infringement.

Microsoft Corp. said Monday that it discovered a critical security vulnerability in a component of its Windows 2000 operating system that could enable a remote attacker to gain total control of a machine running Windows 2000 and Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) Web server.