F5 buys rival to kill it
F5 Networks has agreed to pay Watchfire an undisclosed sum for its Appshield application firewall purely to kill it in favor of its competing system, Trafficshield.
F5 Networks has agreed to pay Watchfire an undisclosed sum for its Appshield application firewall purely to kill it in favor of its competing system, Trafficshield.
Global sales of personal digital assistants (PDAs) have rebounded to record levels in the first quarter of this year, acoording to Gartner.
Fujitsu is launching what it claims will be the world's first biometric palm scanner, checking veins in the human hand to verify someone's identity.
Microsoft has taken the unusual step of releasing an unscheduled fix for a problem that caused some PC's upgraded to Service Pack 2 (SP2) to crash in dramatic "blue screen" fashion.
Symantec has issued patches to fix a "high impact" security hole that affects almost every product it currently sells.
An IBM report that tested the suitability of Linux software to secure an network its entirety has come to light months after it was originally published.
Two British companies have come up with a new system that will monitor company PCs for abuse, including criminal activity.
Motherboard chipsets don't normally excite much attention in the security world, but Nvidia's nForce4 could turn out to be the exception.
The basic building block of today's network security is the firewall but two market analyses from research company IDC offer compelling evidence that this is about to change.
A "High-power-over-Ethernet" standard capable of delivering current to devices such as laptops is to be formally proposed at an IEEE meeting this November, Techworld has learned.
Companies are taking too long to patch critical internal vulnerabilities and are still struggling to protect systems against external attacks.
Renowned as a pioneer of perimeter firewalls, Israeli company Check Point Software Technologies claims to have come up with a new twist to the network security theme -- the "internal security gateway."