Forum XWall Web Services Firewall Service-Oriented Architecture security solution integrates market-leading Web services security policy enforcement with CA's eTrust TransactionMinder for transactional identity management; CA's eTrust Antivirus for virus management; and CA's Web Services Distributed Management for service provisioning.

Coraid has announced that Fiberlink Communications Corp., a leading innovator and trusted enterprise partner for secure mobile workforce solutions, has selected the Coraid 3U SATA-RAID EtherDrive Storage appliance to archive its stand-by offsite cold databases.

The recent detection of additional, severe security flaws in Internet Explorer is apparently helping drive record downloads of Opera 8.51, the latest version of Opera's award-winning Web browser - which, since its debut less than one week ago, has been downloaded by more than one million people.

Firmwware version 1.5 of the new Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) has been hacked, and can now run unauthorized programs for those in the know. An earlier version had also been hacked, although Sony has also provided a version 1.51 that has apparently not yet fallen.

QuickSec Unified Anti-Virus is seamlessly integrated into QuickSec Unified, the only integrated OEM security platform on the market that enables networking equipment manufacturers to build complete unified security appliances that include SSL VPN, IPSec VPN, Firewall, intrusion prevention and anti-virus protection all in a single device, with optional hardware security acceleration for enterprise-class performance.

Responding to strong interest from Independent Software Vendors, Oracle has announced a series of seminars on Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Fusion Middleware 10g specifically tailored to the ISV community. Beginning in North America and moving into the EMEA, LAD and APAC regions in 2006, the sessions are designed to provide ISVs with the knowledge and skills they need to utilize Oracle technology, with content ranging from high-level overviews to in-depth technical training sessions.

Oracle has announced additions to its best-in-class identity management suite designed to meet the diverse needs of organizations across all industries. With the acquisition of Thor Technologies, a leading provider of cross-platform provisioning solutions and OctetString, a leading provider of virtual directory software, Oracle has significantly strengthened its portfolio of industry-leading identity and access management products.

GridApp Systems, a provider of database automation software and solutions, has appointed William Clifford and John Stevenson to its Board of Directors. The executives bring deep expertise in IT strategy and infrastructure management with more than 50 years combined experience leading world-renowned IT organizations. GridApp also announced the appointment of David Maples, formerly General Manager of DataSynapse, as vice president of business development. Maples will lead GridApp's channel and partner business development from Silicon Valley, California.

Oracle has announced that leading Independent Software Vendors and solution providers continue to show strong support for Oracle OLAP. AITG, arcplan, SolStonePlus and Vlamis, all members of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, are taking advantage of the embedded OLAP capabilities in Oracle Database 10g to quickly and easily deliver powerful, enterprise-class analytic solutions to help customers understand which factors are driving their business.

SafeNet, setting the standard for information security, has announced that it was ranked Number 228 on the 2005 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in North America. Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over five years, from 2000-2004. SafeNet grew 698 percent during this period.

'Dear Sir/Madam,' opens the latest e-mail atempting to wreak Sober-worm havoc across the Internet, 'We have logged your IP-address on more than 30 illegal Websites.' It is signed Steven Allison, Federal Bureau of Investigation-FBI...and it's in reality an in-the-wild worm.

LiveTime Software, a leading provider of Java 2 Enterprise Edition based service management software, has announced the general availability of the LiveTime Appliance, the industry's first service management appliance. Designed exclusively for 64 bit operation, the appliance has been specifically optimized for high concurrent access, fault tolerance and security and is based upon the Solaris 10 Operating System from Sun Microsystems.

One characteristic of the boom years of the late 90s was the serial acquisition of companies by Cisco. That stopped when the bubble burst, as the company lost hundreds of billions of market cap and shed thousands of employees. But Cisco has been active recently, and now has announced a megadeal to buy Scientific-Atlanta.

Imation, a worldwide leader in removable data storage media, laid out its competitive strengths across the four pillars of storage before financial analysts and investors in New York City. Operating income for the fourth quarter is targeted between $23 million and $25 million, resulting in full year 2005 operating income between $102 million and $104 million.

OAKDALE, a worldwide leader in removable data storage media, will feature a full range of its premium business data storage products at SC|05Imation's LT0 Ultrium 3 media was selected to be used as part of the on-site StorCloud SC|05 initiative to build a High Performance Computing storage environment showcasing storage technologies and applications at the show.

Tacit Networks, the leader in enterprise-wide remote office IT solutions, and Softricity, the leader in desktop virtualization and application management solutions, has announced that they have certified a joint solution that gives branch office users across the globe on-demand access to centralized, consolidated Windows application repositories via the WAN at LAN-speeds.

Sybase has announced certification of its leading analytics server, Sybase IQ, for integration with SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence, allowing customers to access to Sybase IQ intelligence data stores through the SAP Business Information Warehouse interface.

SafeNet has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all equity interests of Eracom Technologies AG. Under the terms of the agreement, SafeNet will pay a cash consideration of approximately $25 million. This transaction is expected to be accretive within one quarter after the acquisition close, which is expected in December of this year.

SurfControl has announced that John Dillon has been appointed to the role of chief marketing officer. As CMO, Dillon is responsible for SurfControl's global field marketing, corporate communications, product marketing and product management efforts. Dillon brings nearly 20 years of enterprise software experience to the role of CMO.

eEye Digital Security has announced details for two new critical vulnerabilities related to Microsoft Windows. Both flaws involve metafile overflows and affect the Windows 2000 Operating System, which is currently found in a large percentage of business systems running Windows today.

SurfControl, a provider of enterprise threat protection solutions, has announced its membership in the Anti-Phishing Working Group.

DataDirect Networks, the recognized leader in high performance storage networks, has released the world's fastest Fibre Channel-4 (FC-4) RAID storage controller. DataDirect Networks' Silicon Storage Appliance (S2A 9500) has demonstrated 3+ Gigabytes per second whether reading or writing data.

Iomega Corporation , a global leader in data storage celebrating 25 years of business, today announced the new Iomega(R) Micro Mini(TM) Hard Drive in 4GB* and 8GB capacities. Designed with drop shock technology to handle the inevitable bumps and dings of portable use, the robust new Iomega Micro Mini Hard Drive brings economical high capacity, outstanding portability and a new alternative to Flash-based drives for mobile professionals and Internet enthusiasts.

Ubuntu has successfully gone through the stringent process whereby IBM ensures that DB2 Universal Database for Linux operates in the Ubuntu environment.

InterSystems Corporation has announced that Partners HealthCare System, has gone live with a new Enterprise Master Patient Index system built on InterSystems'CACHÉ post-relational database.

DataMirror's low-risk change data capture technology provides real-time data integration, data auditing and high availability software solutions for iSeries. DataMirror solutions for iSeries capture changes and perform transformations to move high volumes of data between iSeries applications and applications on other systems.

Both Secunia and F-Secure have reported an exploit targeting a vulnerability in the XML-RPC for PHP 1.x system, which is common in many Wiki systems.

Enterprise management solutions provider BMC Software has announced that its most current release of BMC Marimba Desktop/Mobile Management and BMC Marimba Server Change Management product suites have been awarded Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 3 (EAL3) certification.

Windows web hosting provider, HostMySite.com, has announced that it is among the first hosting providers to offer ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 on the same day that Microsoft has released the latest additions to the .NET framework.

After a successful trial, during which Black Hat found that it was indeed simple to integrate SecureDoc with its existing Rainbow tokens, the encryption solution was purchased. Black Hat is very pleased with the security benefits of combining two-factor authentication with full-disk encryption.

Sun Microsystems today introduced its T10000 enterprise tape drive at the annual storage customer event, FORUM 2005. As part of the focus on its data management capabilities, the company also unveiled its market leading data storage portfolio that has been created as a result of the recently closed StorageTek (TM) acquisition.

Realtimepublishers and Klocwork Inc., have announces the immediate availability of The Tips and Tricks Guide to Software Security Assurance. Written in an easy-to-read question and answer format, security expert Kevin Beaver addresses tools, techniques, and best practices for ensuring that your software products are secure from attacks.' The Tips and Tricks Guide to Software Security Assurance provides real-world solutions for fixing software security flaws - a major contributor to the information security problems we're experiencing today,' explains author Kevin Beaver.

In the hope of opening the eyes to software vendors to not repeat these kinds of mistakes, security expert Cesar Cerrudo has published an advisory describing a mistake made by Microsoft on patch MS05- 018 where it failed to properly fix a vulnerability, necessitating the subsequent release of a second patch, MS05-049.

Forum Systems has announced it has become a charter member of the SecureIT Alliance. Forum XWall is a Web Services Firewall that extends the Microsoft ISA Server 2004 to protect enterprises against Web services attacks and XML-related threats.

Imation has released its new Swivel Pro Flash Drive featuring Imation's unique 'never lose' swivel cap design, a 50 percent increase in read speed, and a quick release lanyard.

SurfControl has announced that SurfControl Web Filter 5.0 has achieved OPSEC certification from Check Point Software Technologies.

Satyam Computer Services Limited, a leading global consulting and IT services provider, announced that the World Health Organization (WHO) has chosen to work with Satyam to implement its critical Global Management System.

Continuing its shopping spree, Neoware is going to buy Maxspeed Corporation for $24M cash, marking its entry into Asia since the privately held supplier of customized thin clients has sales and development offices in Beijing and Shanghai. The acquisition also increases Neoware's market share and brings it new competencies.

This year it looks certain that a new participation record will be set, more than 16,000 votes have already been recorded, as more than 20,000 SYS-CON Media readers are estimated to cast their votes in this year's Readers' Choice Awards.

CA and Sun have announced an expanded relationship under which CA will port Unicenter and BrightStor solutions to the Solaris 10 Operating System for x64 (x86, 64-bit) platforms.