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VeriSign buys security researcher iDefense for $40 million,
07/14/05

Looking to flesh out its line of managed security services
products, VeriSign has snapped up network security researcher
iDefense. The $40 million cash acquisition was completed
Wednesday, according to VeriSign.
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal3299>

Oracle releases critical security updates, 07/13/05

Oracle has released its latest quarterly batch of secuity
updates, offering fixes for several dozen security flaws in its
database, application server, business applications and other
products.
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal3300>

IBM, Microsoft to ship another Web services security protocol to
standards body, 07/14/05

IBM and Microsoft are set to turn over to a standards body a key
set of Web services security specifications they have been
developing for establishing trust and exchanging data between
partners.
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/071405-ws.html?nl>

Virus scanner bug cost Trend Micro $8 million, 07/14/05

Anti-virus software vendor Trend Micro Thursday said that a bug
in its own software that affected thousands of customers has
cost the company
$8 million. The issue has also forced it to lower its revenue
and profit forecasts for the April to June quarter.
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal3301>

DHS reorganization creates new cybersecurity position, 07/13/05

Cybersecurity will get a high-level champion at the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security as part of a broad
reorganization announced Wednesday by DHS Secretary Michael
Chertoff.
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/071305-dhs-reorg.html?nl>

Newsletter: SIM/ESM: Ripe for consolidation?, 07/13/05

With limited differentiation among competing offerings, the SIM
market has become highly competitive - as suggested by the
number of competing taxonomies that describe it. Segment leaders
ArcSight, e-Security, Intellitactics and netForensics, as well
as challengers such as Network Intelligence and OpenService,
increasingly go up against larger players like Computer
Associates, NetIQ and Symantec - all competing for highly
demanding integration efforts among the largest and most complex
verticals.
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal3242>

Oracle integrates Web services, security products, 07/13/05

Oracle plans to combine two of its Web services products to make
it easier for developers to set security policies for
applications built using its Oracle BPEL Process Manager
software, a company executive said Tuesday.
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal3302>

Sun to open-source Web single sign-on technology, 07/13/05

Sun Wednesday said it will open-source components of its Web
authentication and single sign-on technologies as part of a
project it is calling OpenSSO.
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/071305-sun-open.html?nl>

NIST reports on VoIP security, 07/12/05

VoIP technology digitizes sound and sends the data stream in
packets through the Internet. One would think at first that
normal network security technologies would suffice to protect
the packet stream against interference. Unfortunately, voice
transmission imposes timing constraints on the data stream; if
packets are not received quickly enough to ensure reconstitution
in the right order in real-time, people will perceive the sound
as distorted.
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlsecuritynewsal3303>
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