Stories by: Paul Roberts

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Future growth demands wireless ISPs 26 February, 2007 14:11:18

Aspiring entrepreneurs can only dream about a track record like Selina Lo's. First there was Centillion, a networking startup that Lo co-founded, and Bay Networks purchased for US$100 million in 1994. Lo's next act was Alteon, a maker of Gigabit Ethernet adapters that Lo joined in 1996 and transformed into Alteon WebSystems, a maker of content-aware switching hardware, before helping to sell Alteon to Nortel at the apex of the dot-com craze in July, 2000, for US$7.8 billion. It was a master stroke of good marketing and good timing that made Lo very wealthy.
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Cisco to buy IronPort for $US830m 08 January, 2007 11:21:07

Cisco Systems is buying privately held IronPort Systems for $US830 million in cash and stock.
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EMC: Vendor cooperation key to data security 28 November, 2006 15:03:20

The cool reception from Wall Street after EMC's announcement that it would buy RSA Security had EMC executives feeling a bit flummoxed -- like the guy who elopes, only to find out that his friends didn't like his girlfriend to begin with.
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Sophos warns of fake Microsoft security Trojan 11 April, 2005 11:30:20

A new campaign by malicious hackers uses a website designed to look like Microsoft.'s Windows update page to trick unwitting Internet users into infecting their computers with a Trojan horse remote access program, according to antivirus experts at Sophos.
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Antivirus company warns of new Symbian Trojan 08 April, 2005 08:05:45

Antivirus company F-Secure is warning mobile phone users about a new malicious software program that infects phones that use the Symbian Series 60 operating system, preventing the phones from starting.
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Fewer permissions are key to Longhorn security 07 April, 2005 12:18:36

Software engineers who attend Microsoft's annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference later this month could get their first taste of a new Windows user permissions model that could change the way thousands of programs are developed and run. But as the company prepares for the final Longhorn development push, questions remain about its plans for a new user privileges model called Least-Privilege User Account, or LUA.
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DNS pharming attacks target .com domain 04 April, 2005 11:11:48

A new round of so-called "pharming" attacks is targeting the .com Internet domain, redirecting some Internet users who are looking for .com Web sites to Web pages controlled by the unknown attackers.
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MessageLabs launches encryption service 01 April, 2005 14:40:55

A new service from e-mail security vendor MessageLabs uses encryption to protect e-mail sent between business partners over the Internet, the company announced Wednesday.
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Symantec acknowledges two holes in AV products 31 March, 2005 08:15:18

Security software company Symantec acknowledged that software flaws in some of its antivirus products could allow malicious hackers to use denial of service (DOS) attacks to crash systems running the software, disrupting automatic protection features.
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CA puts forgotten IDs in crosshairs with acquisition 30 March, 2005 08:27:41

Computer Associates International (CA) has purchased technology for finding and purging unused user IDs on mainframe computers, the company announced Tuesday.
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ISPs join to 'fingerprint' Internet attacks 29 March, 2005 08:02:23

Leading global telecommunications companies, ISPs (Internet service providers) and network operators will begin sharing information on Internet attacks as members of a new group called the "Fingerprint Sharing Alliance," according to a published statement from the new group.