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News Using data collected from Google web searches and security firm Secunia, the researchers - Stefan Frei of ETH, Zurich; Thomas Dübendorfer of Google; Gunter Ollmann of IBM ISS; and Martin May of ETH, Zurich - analysed the browsers used in a report. [03 Jul 2008]
Business execs snub Facebook
News But Paul Hopkins, director of ISS at the University of Newcastle, urged IT executives to give Facebook a chance so they can understand possible users of it for their staff and customers. Paul Hopkins, director of ISS, University of Newcastle [11 Jan 2008]
Microsoft is 2006 takeover titan
News Other large transactions in 2006 include Cisco splashing out $5.3bn for Scientific Atlanta, HP buying Mercury Interactive for $4.5bn and Big Blue acquiring Filenet and ISS for a total of $2.9bn. Microsoft racked up the largest number of global... [15 Jan 2007]
Cisco grabs IronPort for $830m
News She said: "There have been so many acquisitions in the security space - IBM and ISS, EMC and RSA - that it's difficult for smaller security vendors not to have a wider portfolio. Cisco has acquired internet gateway security company IronPort for $830m. [05 Jan 2007]
Virtual moon and Mars flights come to Google
News The Nasa Ames research centre and Google have signed an agreement that could soon allow internet users to check on the red planet's weather, investigate the moon's craters or track the International Space Station (ISS). [19 Dec 2006]
Space web video chat lined up
News The European Space Agency (ESA) and German ISP T-Online will beam up the live space video chat to the International Space Station (ISS) on 28 November 2006, at 21:15(CET). During the event, questions submitted from the public via the web will be... [23 Nov 2006]
Alert over "extremely critical" XML bug
News IBM-owned ISS X-Force detailed on its site the kind of damage that could be caused by the vulnerability. An "extremely critical" vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft's XML Core Services, according to several security companies. [07 Nov 2006]
Big Blue secures ISS for $1.3bn
News IBM made a resounding move into security on Wednesday, acquiring Internet Security Systems (ISS) for $1.3bn. ISS builds network protection products and services, including intrusion detection and monitoring tools. [23 Aug 2006]
Flaw mars Kaspersky antivirus software
News ISS has discovered bugs in products from security software makers including F-Secure, McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro. A "critical" flaw in Kaspersky Labs' antivirus software could let an attacker commandeer systems that use the products, a... [04 Oct 2005]
Sophos' flagship product is flawed
News In the past year, ISS has discovered bugs in products from security software makers F-Secure, McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro, he noted. Earlier this week, several flaws discovered by ISS were disclosed and fixed in Clam Antivirus, a popular open... [29 Jul 2005]
Cisco calls in the lawyers over Black Hat hack
News But ISS' Rouland said there "was never a voIP presentation" and that Wednesday's session was supposed to be cancelled altogether. Lynn told the audience he had quit his job as a researcher at ISS to deliver the presentation, after ISS had decided... [28 Jul 2005]
Wi-Fi users warned of fake base station threat
News However, in October 2002, security company ISS published details of base-station cloning, otherwise known as an evil twin traffic interception. In its 2002 document, ISS defines the technique as: Wi-Fi hotspot users should be on their guard for... [21 Jan 2005]
Google share flood could hammer prices
News This shock may still be in the future but funds adviser Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) hasn't waited to hammer Google for 21 separate weaknesses in its corporate governance. ISS' main complaints are that Google has too few outside... [23 Aug 2004]
'Critical' AOL IM flaw exposed
News Reports suggest ISS had already reported the issue to AOL, not wishing to go public with an unpatched threat, but it followed Secunia's 'critical' announcement with its own. Two security companies are claiming there is a serious vulnerability in... [10 Aug 2004]
Sasser worm infects a million computer systems
News We are trying to find the best estimates we can," said Chris Rouland, VP for ISS's incident assessment team. Like astronomers looking at a small portion of the universe to learn about the whole, security researchers have used the Sasser worm's... [04 May 2004]
