Ellen Messmer - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Ellen Messmer

Article | 11/12/2007 Alcatel-Lucent unwraps Web Services security appliance

Alcatel-Lucent has announced a Web Services network-security appliance intended to secure access to content and monitor for unauthorized transmission.

Article | 6/12/2007 Grisoft acquires Exploit Prevention Labs

Antivirus software vendor Grisoft Wednesday announced it has acquired start-up Exploit Prevention Labs for an undisclosed price.

Article | 19/11/2007 eBay Web attack hops from other sites

Yet another sophisticated Web-based attack against eBay and its users is being investigated by a Tel Aviv-based security vendor that discovered a simi...

Article | 16/11/2007 McAfee: Virtualization, online games top security risks

In its "Top Ten Security Predictions for 2008," McAfee foresees the growth of virtualization opening up a huge attack surface. On the good-news side, ...

Article | 14/11/2007 Top five security-menace predictions for 2008

If this year will be remembered for high-profile data breaches, then what troubles are in store for 2008?

Article | 8/11/2007 Symantec airs Vontu integration plan

Symantec Tuesday discussed the integration strategy related to its planned US$350 million acquisition of Vontu, the San Francisco-based maker of data-...

Article | 7/11/2007 Trend Micro adds encryption to mobile security software

Trend Micro has announced Version 5.0 of its Mobile Security software for the Microsoft Windows Mobile and Symbian/S60 mobile-device platforms, adding...

Article | 6/11/2007 Alert Logic service captures, analyzes log data

Alert Logic has announced the Alert Logic Log Manager, a service for automating the collection, review, analysis and archiving of network and server r...

Article | 2/11/2007 'Fake codec' Trojan targets Macs

The first-ever "fake codec" Trojan malware for the Apple Macintosh was identified yesterday by Intego, a maker of Internet security software for the M...

Article | 31/10/2007 Ingrian updates encryption appliance line

Ingrian Networks announced it has updated its DataSecure encryption appliance line most commonly used for credit-card encryption, adding the high-end ...

Article | 29/10/2007 Trend Micro buys data-leak specialist Provilla

Trend Micro has announced an agreement to acquire privately held start-up Provilla for its LeakProof data-leak prevention product. The acquisition pri...

Article | 26/10/2007 Mystery of RealPlayer exploit, hijacked ad server unfolds

A week after Symantec security researchers traced the elaborate course of a malware exploit -- apparently devised in the Netherlands -- to what may be...

Article | 25/10/2007 Controversial cybersecurity plan gets legal review

The notion of removing the security perimeter around corporate information -- a concept known as deperimeterization -- expounded by the Jericho Forum ...

Article | 23/10/2007 Appliance added to content-management suite

Workshare Monday announced an updated version of its content-protection suite, adding a network-monitoring appliance to augment the company's standalo...

Article | 19/10/2007 USB-based network-assessment tool debuts

Catbird, a US provider of in-the-cloud security services, has made available a USB thumb drive-based device called the Pocket V-Agent, which can be pl...