Stories about: ISS

When astronauts first step foot on Mars, they won't be alone.

The Storm worm is fighting back against security researchers that seek to destroy it and has them running scared, Interop New York show attendees heard this week.

Web sites running Microsoft's Web server software are twice as likely to be hosting malicious code as other Web sites, according to research from Google.

Like many just-launched e-commerce sites in the world, this unnamed Web site has a fairly functional, if somewhat rudimentary, home page. A list of options at top of the home page allows visitors to transact business in Russian or in English, offers an FAQ section, spells out the terms and conditions for software use and provides details on payment forms that are supported.

In the same way some e-commerce sites serve up customized content based on a user's profile, cybercriminals are increasingly using personalization techniques to more effectively attack those who visit their Web sites.

Whatever happened to Christopher Klaus, the cybersecurity whiz who founded Internet Security Systems and sold it to IBM last year for US$1.3 billion? Today, he's spending most of his time in a virtual world called Kaneva. He recently spoke with Senior Editor Carolyn Duffy Marsan about his latest venture.

Window Snyder, chief security officer at open source browser maker Mozilla, is caught in the crosshairs of the raging browser vulnerability battle.

To some, vulnerability researchers such as H.D. Moore are knights in shining armor for their efforts to discover security flaws in software products. Opponents argue that the only ones being helped are the malicious attackers.

The number of new software security vulnerabilities identified by security experts, hackers and others during the first eight months of this year has already exceeded the total recorded for all of 2005, according to Internet Security Systems.

Users of the open-source Asterisk VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) product are advised to upgrade their software, following the discovery of two vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to disrupt network service.

Hoping to counter the public perception that the open-source Apache Web server is losing ground to Microsofts Internet Information Services (ISS), Linux advocate Bruce Perens has launched a free domain-parking service.