Buoyed by $150 million in financing from Larry Ellison's Tako Ventures, Pillar Data Systems management resisted the temptation to pre-announce their product before it was ready for market. Now it's ready. This week, Pillar formally removed the wraps when it unveiled Pillar Axiom.

Symantec has announced an intrusion prevention solution for desktops and servers on Windows, UNIX and Linux platforms: Symantec Critical System Protection 4.5.

Comodo Inc. has emerged as the world's second largest High Assurance Certification Authority. Now the company says it was the only High Assurance SSL provider to have grown market share over the past 9 months, gaining 2 percentage points to raise its market share to 16%.

Made up of over 150 organizations from across the globe - ranging from educational institutions and government organizations, to service providers and financial institutions, to technology firms and wireless providers - the Liberty Alliance Project today announced...

The fake news report telling of a Michael Jackson suicide attempt should be less tempting to users, now that the King of Pop has been acquitted on all counts. Don't rule out future, related scams, though, say the experts.

UK-based IT security firm Sophos reports that a fake news report telling of a Michael Jackson suicide attempt is designed to fool users into clicking a pernicious attachment.

Quadrics Ltd., the global leader in high speed interconnect for High Performance Computing (HPC), has established a wholly-owned subsidiary in North America, based in San Jose. The subsidiary will support Quadrics in the most important market for HPC and to provid...

Sun's $4.1 acquisition of StorageTek was tepidly received by analysts when it was first announced. A few days later, one analyst told SYS-CON that the deal doesn't appear to serve a useful purpose.

Companies have been hesitant to implement selected new technologies because IT security risks associated with these technologies have been greatly exaggerated, according to a an opinion issued this week by Gartner. The analytical firm has come up with what it says...

Lucid Security's ipANGEL is the world's only auto-tuning intrusion prevention solution with onboard asset/vulnerability scanning, the company says. It will outline its vision through a talk by CTO Vik Phatak at the Computer Security Institute's 15th annual NetSe...

McAfee SecurityCenter and McAfee VirusScan will be pre-installed on the current Toshiba libretto U105, libretto U100 and Tecra M4 models, and on future Toshiba notebook PCs offered by Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. Digital Products Division, including t...

Sun will become the fourth largest storage company worldwide, noted Scott McNealy in a statement today issued as a follow-up to yesterday's announcement of a definitive agreement under which Sun will acquire StorageTek for $4.1BN.

'McAfee is committed to providing innovative, comprehensive solutions that protect customers from security threats at all access points,' said George Samenuk, chairman and chief executive officer of McAfee, Inc. 'The world we live in has become increasingly wirele...

'Sun's technical and financial strength puts us in a great position to act as a consolidator in the IT industry. This acquisition is part of an ongoing strategy to respond to customers seeking to rationalize their datacenter purchases,' said Sun CEO Scott McNealy ...

'FEMA Director Michael Brown must be removed from his job immediately and should be assigned to truck duty to drive and unload food and supplies to the New Orleans Convention Center thoughout the night and for the next 48 hours,' writes Yeshim Deniz in her blog.

'Due to some fairly major core changes that Apple made to Tiger, this release took a few extra weeks to prepare and test,' said Brent Smithurst, Vice President of Technical Operations at Faronics. 'I'm confident that the wait will be worth it for all of our Tiger users.'

Samsung Electronics has had developed a solid-state hard disk based on flash memory, available in capacities as high as 16 gigabytes. The drives use Samsung's NAND flash memory, and will initially ship to mobile computing manufacturers in August.

Intel's Paul Ottelini described the company's dual-core technology last year, signaling a significant change in the global microprocessor leader's strategy for desktop systems. Now the company has announced dual-core chips priced for use in most PCs.

Some collateral damage in the newly-hot browser wars was reported with the revelation that the latest version of Netscape Navigator apparently disables XML functionality with Microsoft Explorer. Redmond is advising its IE users to remove Navigator, and the compa...

Network Appliance included a new serial ATA (SATA) offering in its most recent announcement of systems designed for midrange applications. Patrick Rogers, NetApp's vice president of products and partners, said the new FAS3000 and V3000 products were designed in ...

America Online today announced the launch of the all-new Netscape 8.0, which it says 'automatically adjusts safety and security settings to help protect users as they explore the Web.' Based on Firefox 1.0.3, Netscape 8.0 - says AOL - seamlessly and automatically ...

A big security hole that was found in the increasingly popular Mozilla Firefox browser earlier in the week has been addressed, according to Mozilla. Firefox users are encouraged to visit the company's website and download the patch.

An 'extremely critical' security flaw has been uncovered in the Mozilla Firefox browser. As this article was posted, no patch had been issued, just an advisory to disable JavaScript.

Coraid's EtherDrive Storage product is now available for Serial ATA disk drives. The refined chassis design includes 15 hot swap drive bays which accommodate standard SATA disk drives. The new shelf offers a dual GigE Interface, redundant hot swap power modules an...

Sun Microsystems showed its new Sun Java StorEdge Software and suites with subscription-based pricing at its Network Computing '05 event. Storage is offered as a complete management package or in four distinct suites, which are designed to address specific storage...

Sun Connection is an integrated, secure network services connection designed for continuous benchmarking of IT health and performance. It provides real-time access to sophisticated remote servicing and predictive diagnostic services, availability status, softwar...

IBM will integrate Tivoli Security Compliance Manager with its continually updated security intelligence service, the IBM Global Business Security Index. As a result of the integration, daily updates on security threats worldwide are fed into Tivoli Security Co...

Pillar Data Systems, funded by Larry Ellison's Lawrence Investments, is expected to deliver a unique storage subsystem that stores data in a system that assigns differing levels of importance to the data. Systems are also expected to compete with entrenched vendor...

The UK's SafeBuy has partnered with Thawte through its Referral Program, 't-refer.' The two companies share an overall view of Internet protection and Web security, they've reported.

Security Risk Management, or SRM, is the latest addition to technology's alphabet soup. Skybox Software, a company that develops software in this area, said a number of analysts, including Gartner, have confirmed the need for it.

Juniper Networks announced will spend $469 million to acquire Peribit Networks and Redline Networks, as it 'capitalizes on its leadership position to redefine the networking market,' the company said.

William Plante, a Symantec Senior Director, has joined the Open Security Exchange (OSE) Convergence Council. The OSE is an IEEE-ISTO group formed to address the lack of integration among various components of the security infrastructure. The Convergence Council de...

A new company out of San Diego, Intense Integrations Inc. has announced its Intense Security Pro 2005 program, designed 'to change the way we think about internet security.' The product is designed to protect users from drive-by virus attacks, spyware, adware, wo...

Gates to address physical security provisions in Longhorn. But where is the protection against malware?

MicroWorld Technologies Inc. has developed a free utility that provides detailed listings of other computers who are connected to the user's computer (TCP and UDP Endpoints), along with associated processes. ViewTCP is a network monitoring tool that examines TCP/...

EMC's net income rose to $270 million, or 11 cents per share, during Q1 2005. That compares with $140 million, or 6 cents per share, in the same quarter last year. Revenues rose 20 percent to $2.24 billion from $1.87 billion last year, led by 47 percent growth in ...

Microsoft has recently filed more than 100 lawsuits against people who have allegedly created websites designed to look like Microsoft sites. The company's aim is to stop phishing scams that use Microsoft's name in attempts to extract personal information out of ...

Even users who have already installed Microsoft's Service Pack 2 cannot rest easy, as Microsoft yesterday released five security bulletins to fix 'critical' vulnerabilities - i.e., flaws that could allow an attacker to take complete control of your computer syst...

Spectra Logic has just announced its participation in Microsoft's Simple SAN Program, which helps all levels of Windows customers implement SANs simply, regardless of connectivity infrastructure - either Fibre Channel or iSCSI.

IMlogic is warning customers that a vulnerability exists for version 6.2 and version 7.0 beta of the MSN IM client. The vulnerability is caused by an error within the processing of GIF images. The vulnerability can be exploited by sending a modified emoticon or ...