Ryan Naraine

Enterprise IT security consultants TruSecure and BeTrusted have merged to form a standalone managed services firm called CyberTrust. The deal creates a 1,000-employee firm to go head-to-head with the likes of Symantec , VeriSign and McAfee in the burgeoning market for Managed Security Services (MSS). Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Brett Jackson, […]

UPDATED: Two-factor authentication technology vendors RSA Security and VeriSign took center stage on Tuesday with separate announcements trumping the value of adding another security layer to the existing username/password scheme. RSA Security announced a deal with America Online to launch AOL PassCode, a new paid service for AOL subscribers that offers a second level of […]

America Online has formally opened up its AIM instant messaging network to bot-makers with the launch of a pay-per-use AIM Bot Program targeting enterprise customers. As part of its never-ending quest to make money from its popular AIM product, AOL has teamed up with bot developers ConverseAgent (formerly ActiveBuddy) and InfiniteAgent to launch “a streamlined […]

Perhaps for some, being credited with inventing the World Wide Web would be more than enough as far as life accomplishments go. But for Sir Tim Berners-Lee, it’s merely the beginning of something even more fulfilling. The man who was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest minds of the 20th century […]

Apple Computer’s Mac OS X iChat instant messaging client contains a security flaw that could put users at risk of system takeover, the company warned on Friday. The vulnerability, which is rated “highly critical” by research firm Secunia, affects iChat 1.0, iChat AV 2.0 and iChat 2.1. “The problem is that links aren’t properly validated […]

Anti-virus specialist Symantec late Thursday announced a deal to acquire privately held security consulting firm @Stake. Financial terms of the transaction were not released. The deal, which is expected to close in October, signals a continuation of Symantec’s multi-million-dollar shopping spree, which included the purchase of Riptech, Inc. for an estimated $145 million; Recourse Technologies […]

Officials at EarthLink’s R&D facility have quietly released a proof-of-concept file-sharing application based on the Session Initiated Protocol . SIPshare, written by EarthLink R&D staff and released to the open source community on its R&D discussion forum late Wednesday, demonstrates the viability of SIP as a protocol over which peer-to-peer (P2P) applications may be implemented […]

The Mozilla Project has issued a warning for a series of “highly critical” security holes in three of its core projects, including its flagship Firefox Web browser and the Thunderbird e-mail client. The vulnerabilities, which also affect the Mozilla browser, could potentially exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, access and modify sensitive […]

NEW YORK — World Wide Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee is challenging developers to do more with voice recognition systems and spur a sector that is ripe for innovation. In town to deliver a keynote address at the SpeechTek conference, Berners-Lee said end users demand a seamless experience when dealing with voice-activated telephone systems. He […]

McAfee is continuing its aggressive push into the market for anti-spam and network security technologies with the release of a managed e-mail service for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). McAfee, known mostly for its consumer anti-virus products, said its new Managed Mail Protection service would proactively offer protection for mail servers inundated with unwanted spam, […]

PayPal, the eBay-owned online payment provider, plans to levy fines of up to $500 for users who violate its acceptable use policy regarding adult content and services, prescription drugs and gambling. Effective September 24, PayPal’s compliance team will strictly enforce the new acceptable use policy to implement the monetary fines on Web site owners who […]

Microsoft is giving premium customers advance notice of security bulletins, internetnews.com has learned. The company plans to release two security bulletins, one with a “critical” rating, on Tuesday September 14, in order to plug holes in multiple software products, according to an advance notice sent to select customers. The note, obtained by internetnews.com, said Microsoft’s […]