Paul Roberts

A flaw in Network Associates Inc.'s GroupShield antivirus product is causing problems for some users of Microsoft Corp.'s Exchange 2000 e-mail server, including server crashes, according to Vincent Gullotto, a vice-president at AVERT, Network Associates' antivirus research group.

In an announcement that could send reverberations throughout the antivirus software world, Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday that it was acquiring antivirus technology from a small Romanian company, GeCAD Software Srl of Bucharest, Romania.

IBM Corp. is expanding its Tivoli Risk Manager security event management product to manage security events from a number of common enterprise databases, according to a statement from the company.

The Organization for Internet Safety (OIS) is wading more deeply into the murky waters of vulnerability disclosure, releasing a draft document that lays out best practices for reporting and responding to software security vulnerabilities.

The rate of global software piracy declined 10 percent in the past eight years, but there was only a modest 1 percent reduction from 2001 until now with a sharp increase in what piracy costs companies,

A new committee at the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) is laying the groundwork for a new classification system to describe Web security vulnerabilities

A change to Microsoft Corp.'s tape backup feature makes file backup tapes created with Windows Server 2003 incompatible with previous versions of Windows including Windows XP and Windows 2000.

A new mass mailing e-mail worm is spreading on the Internet, masking itself as a message from Microsoft Corp.'s support organization.