Paul Roberts

Symantec Corp. continued to strengthen its standing as a seller of enterprise security technology on Monday, announcing the purchase of ON Technology Corp., a maker of remote PC management technology, for US$100 million in cash.

Security consulting company Unisys Inc. will purchase the identity management business of Massachusetts company ePresence Inc. for US $ 11.5 million in cash, the companies announced Thursday.

Do you know how to say "Whoops!" in Czech? Staff at Microsoft Corp.'s headquarters may be asking themselves that question this week after two software patches the company released last week caused problems on foreign language versions of the Windows operating system and Exchange e-mail server.

Middleware maker BEA Systems Inc. continued to build its security profile on Monday with the announcement of a new distributed security architecture, BEA WebLogic Enterprise Security, or WLES.

Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer announced a gaggle of new security initiatives Thursday that he said would shore up the security of its customers' systems against what he said in a statement was a

Computer hackers have found another way to exploit an unpatched hole in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer Web browser, using a specially designed attack Web site to install a Trojan horse program on vulnerable Windows machines.

Months after the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic paralyzed this picturesque city, Toronto this week opened its arms to a different kind of virus outbreak

U.K. antivirus company Sophos PLC said Wednesday that it bought Canadian company ActiveState Corp. for US$23 million in cash, adding ActiveState's line of antispam products to Sophos' enterprise antivirus software.