Ellen Messmer

SSH Communications Security Corp. next month plans to release its Tectia product suite for securing access to proprietary e-commerce applications by making use of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard Secure Shell Protocol instead of the Web-based encryption standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

Hackers, apparently from outside the U.S., have made one Kentucky state agency's computer network their old Kentucky home, according to a state auditor.

Start-up MagniFire WebSystems Inc. recently unveiled TrafficShield 2.0, an updated version of its application firewall that the company says will help customers prevent break-ins into Web servers.

Hackers, apparently from outside the U.S., have made one Kentucky state agency's computer network their old Kentucky home, according to Kentucky's state auditor.

Computer-science researchers from Johns Hopkins University and Rice University are heaping criticism on electronic voting machines built by Diebold Election Systems, based on software code for the machine said to have been posted publicly to the Internet by an activist.

The future of wireless is a topic of major concern to the British government, which would like to coordinate with the United States as much as possible in terms of technologies, standards and regulation, says an official from the British consulate, which had its own booth at NetWorld+Interop 2003.

Computer Associates International Inc. this week announced it is spearheading an effort to establish common industry specifications for building security information management products, which are used to gather and make sense of data from information-security equipment such as firewalls and physical security systems such as electronic badge-readers.

The White House issued its long-awaited National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace report, the document intended to summarize ways to improve network security for government agencies, the private sector and citizens in their homes.