Tim Gray

UPDATED: Time Warner said today that it has agreed to pay $210 million in criminal and civil fines to settle a federal fraud case stemming from allegedly shady advertising deals within its America Online division. Under the terms of an agreement reached with the Department of Justice (DOJ), federal prosecutors charged the world’s largest media […]

A new study has found that Linux is more secure than most commercial software — results that echo what its proponents have long said. A four-year study released today by Coverity, reports Linux has a low bug count, making the code more stable and secure. The 2.6 Linux production kernel, now being shipped with software […]

America Online says it expects to have restored today thousands of AIM Instant Messenger names that were accidentally dropped from the network last week. As of Monday morning, engineers were still working on reinstating AIM screen names, and corresponding AIM buddy Lists, that were deactivated last week during the company’s regular cycle of clearing inactive […]

The trend of merging network and security technologies continued today as 3Com bought TippingPoint Technologies for approximately $430 million, the companies said. The deal gives 3Com a proven Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) product at a time when thwarting network attacks is a priority among IT managers at corporations, colleges and universities and government agencies. “The […]

Centurion Technologies plans to move to the head of the class next week when it releases an enterprise version of its remote management technology and hard drive protection software. Cornerstone, its newest hard drive protection tool, and CompuGuard Control Center (CCC), a remote management software for networked computers, have been largely successful on school, college […]

Holiday shoppers hoping to save time purchasing gifts online this year might want to double check their ZIP codes before placing any orders. A recent study released by CyberSource said retailers who do business on the Internet are hesitant to deal with customers located in certain “hot zones” in the United States and around the […]

Danish security research firm Secunia has reported a vulnerability that occurs in most browsers that can be exploited by hackers looking to spoof the content of Web sites. And they say repeated warnings have fallen on deaf ears. The Window Injection Vulnerability, listed on the firm’s Web site as “moderately critical,” allows malicious attackers to […]

Chief Security Officers from several top technology firms and government agencies say computer worms, viruses and regulatory compliance are likely to be the hot button issues that will keep them awake at night in 2005. At the second CSO Interchange in New York this week, organized by eBay CSO Howard Schmidt and Qualys CEO Philippe […]

Nortel and Symantec have announced a strategic alliance intended to address the growing number of security threats facing systems from networks to desktops. Officials from the companies said their engineers jointly developed a prototype security engine using Nortel’s deep-packet inspection and Symantec’s experience countering global threats. The engine can be deployed within an existing switched-network […]

The dramatic increase in online shopping this holiday season has lured more phishers out of hiding. The number of spoofs aimed at tugging the heart strings of shoppers with sentimental reminders of gift giving has increased more than 1,000 percent, according to Proofpoint’s Anti-Spam Lab. A recent Proofpoint survey said nearly 100 new phishing attacks […]

Analysts say a new twist on the war against spammers in Europe isn’t likely to spill across United States borders, but is rather an opening salvo more likely to fizzle than to explode. Earlier this week, Lycos Europe launched an aggressive campaign targeting spam-related Web sites. The UK-based company took the offensive when it released […]

America Online launched a consumer version of its AIM Voice Conferencing (AVC) system today, underscoring the company’s stated belief that instant messaging is the new doorway to communication in the office and at home. AOL’s 36 million active IM users can now access AVC, a “party line” from the the company’s IM service, with Lightbridge […]