Symantec Chief Executive Officer John Thompson says his company's US$13.5 billion acquisition of Veritas Software is moving ahead, with the merged company set to offer enterprises a "holistic" grouping of integrated products to more easily deal with issues of security, data backup, and compliance.

Despite the worldwide attention given to the threat of virus infection on mobile phones little has actually happened in Australia - even the antivirus vendors are currently labelling them as 'proof of concept'.

At the fourth annual MIT Spam Conference held in Boston Tuesday, speakers said that while the volume of spam ebbs and flows, the nature of unwanted e-mail is steadily becoming more dangerous.

When Windows Vista ships next year, customers might have a tougher time getting their security software to work properly, according to executives from Symantec.

While Tony Rooke has been NSW Police CIO for less than a fortnight, he has outlined some of the biggest technological changes since the introduction of radio for police operational communications.

Microsoft Windows users infected last week by the W32.Blaster worm might appreciate the attention of a new version of that worm that cleans corrupted systems, then installs a software patch to prevent future infections.

Australian enterprises are at substantial risk of being sucker-punched by hackers because of their overly relaxed attitude to IT security the regional director of Check Point, Scott Ferguson, told the inaugural CIO Government Conference in Canberra this week.

The new US Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is using the security efforts of others to secure the nation's borders with a state-of-the-art architecture that is spawning a long shopping list of technologies.

John Thompson, Symantec chairman and CEO, delivered a call to arms to Comdex attendees in Las Vegas Wednesday, when he detailed how the more business is done on the Internet, the more everyone needs to do their part to secure the wired, and wireless, world.

Faced with the sustained threat of terrorist attacks against its interests and citizens, the US government needs to devote more resources to developing models for understanding the threat of terrorism while building a better civil infrastructure for spotting and reacting to terrorist threats, say leading experts on technology and public policy.

The list of all-too-familiar names - Nachi, Klez, Lovsan, SoBig, BugBear, Swen, Blaster and Yaha - represents only a sampling of the most prevalent worms and viruses that slithered into corporate networks this fall. But they all have one thing in common: Patches were readily available before most damage had been done. So why do these intruders continue to wreak such havoc?

Over the past few months, politicians across the US were jockeying for an unlikely distinction: a top spot on a list of likely terrorist targets. The prize for the winners? A bigger piece of federal antiterrorism funding.

Symantec has unveiled new versions of its Norton security products--beefing up some of the real-time and automated features--and will release them in the next few weeks.

A new version of the Sasser Internet worm, Sasser-F, appeared on Monday, despite claims by German authorities to have arrested the sole author of that worm on Friday.

Just how useful is the Common Malware Enumeration (CME) initiative debuted by U.S.-CERT this autumn?