Sam Costello

Software vendors, Internet service providers (ISPs), wireless network vendors and the U.S. federal government all need to improve the security of their IT products and networks to help ensure that the U.S.' cyberspace is secure, said Richard Clarke, presidential advisor on cybersecurity, in his keynote that opened the Black Hat security conference Wednesday.

Software vendors, Internet service providers (ISPs), wireless network vendors and the U.S. federal government all need to improve the security of their IT products and networks to help ensure that the U.S.' cyberspace is secure, said Richard Clarke, presidential advisor on cybersecurity, in his keynote here that opened the Black Hat security conference Wednesday.

In a move designed to give users a greater range of devices to connect to virtual private networks (VPNs), Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. announced three feature upgrades to its software Tuesday.

Networking heavyweight Cisco Systems Inc. announced Thursday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to buy privately held Ayr Networks Inc., a provider of high-performance distributed networking services and scalable routing software.

U.S. cybersecurity policy and the protection of critical infrastructure is being hampered by a failure to communicate between the large number of federal organizations which have responsibilities in the area, as well as by ill-defined relationships between the groups, according to a new report released Monday by the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO).

A security hole in the PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) scripting language used on many Web servers could allow an attacker to execute code on affected systems or even take control of them, according to a security alert released Monday by The PHP Group.

The Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (WECA) is discussing the possibility of changing the name it gives to 802.11a wireless networking products that it certifies to be compatible.

Internet security incidents for the first half of 2002 are up sharply over 2001 and are on pace to substantially exceed last year's figures, according to new statistics released Thursday by the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Center.