Sam Costello

Microsoft Corp. and antivirus and security firm McAfee.com Corp. announced an alliance Tuesday that will see McAfee incorporate some of Microsoft's .NET technologies into its offerings and also support Microsoft's suite of "Hailstorm" services, which are tied to .NET.

What if they gave a cyberwar and nobody came? That seems to be the situation days after the end of what was described by some as a "cyberwar" staged by Chinese hackers against the United States in retaliation for the death of Chinese pilot Wang Wei in early April. Doubts linger in some Internet security experts' minds, however, whether this "cyberwar" was the week's real threat.

Chernobyl, a three-year-old virus that devastated thousands of computers worldwide when it first hit in 1999, is set to become active again Thursday, according to anti-virus company Trend Micro Inc.

Unisys Corp. and Nortel Networks Corp. said Tuesday that they have developed a VPN (virtual private network) offering called Secure VPN, targeted at financial institutions, governments and businesses that want to conduct secure business over the Internet.

If you've been waiting to register your Web address in Arabic, are convinced that an Urdu URL will be the answer to your dot-com woes or perhaps are dying to have a domain name written in Cherokee, VeriSign Inc. said Friday that it can help.

Two reports from market research firm International Data Corp. (IDC) this week forecast that two different sectors of the market for corporate network security products will top US$1 billion by 2004.

Remember the song "Looking for love in all the wrong places?" Well, security firm Trend Micro Inc. Wednesday found yet another place where love is promised, but only trouble is delivered.

Microsoft Corp. admitted Monday that a flaw in its Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 1.0 can lead to a Denial of Service attack (DoS), taking Web sites and users employing the product offline until the server is restarted.