Sam Costello

Announcing what its chief technology officer called "the most significant and broad set of product releases Macromedia has ever undertaken as a company," Macromedia Inc. Monday announced upgrades to a passel of its Web design and development tools, including Dreamweaver, ColdFusion and Fireworks.

Though the worldwide PC market has not achieved positive year-over-year growth, the market is not declining as much as had been projected, according to new market data released Thursday by IDC.

TruSecure Corp. bolstered its security services offerings Monday when it announced the release of TruSecure 5.0, which is built around a new security console. The company also announced the full integration of services provided by Three Pillars Inc. into TruSecure's services lineup, a company it bought in January.

Sun Microsystems Inc. added two high-level security positions to its management Wednesday when it named long-time Sun employee and security pioneer Whitfield Diffie chief security officer and Joanne Masters director of the new Sun Global Security Program Office.

Silicon Defense took a step towards helping customers better use the company

McAfee.com took the wraps off a new strategy and technology that should allow the company to provide broader, more intelligent security services to its customers using XML and Web services, the company said.

Alleging that Hitachi Ltd. is infringing on six of its patents, EMC Corp. Friday filed a suit in U.S. District Court seeking damages for the infringement and also filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission asking the body to block import of the infringing products into the United States.

The cost of computer security incidents continued to rise in 2001, to a total of US$456 million, while only 34 per cent of victims of such crime reported it to law enforcement, according to the seventh annual Computer Crime and Security Survey conducted by the Computer Security Institute and the San Francisco Bureau of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.