Network Associates Drops PGP Email Encryption
News Software company Network Associates has stopped marketing its PGP e-mail encryption software, a further sign that privacy products are a tough sell. Network Associates' decision to stop selling the software comes partly because it couldn't find a...
[March 11, 2002, 9:12]
Network Associates Buys PGP
News But the products, based upon the now-public Diffie-Hellman public key algorithm, were slow to market, and the cash-starved PGP became an easy target for acquisition, according to Network Associates CEO Bill Larson.
[December 2, 1997, 10:48]
Network Associates UK Secures PGP Buy
News Network Associates in the UK expects to fold in the operations of its latest acquisition, encryption firm Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). However, PGP had planned to set up a London office before the end of this year.
[December 3, 1997, 10:07]
New Company Aims For Simpler PGP
News PGP Corp.is setting out to do what Network Associates couldn't -- entice enterprise customers to buy PGP encryption products by making them easier to use. On Monday, Network Associates sold its Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption products to PGP...
[August 19, 2002, 16:42]
PGP Flaw Lets Hackers Pick Outlook Locks
News Security company eEye Digital Security issued a warning late Wednesday to users of Network Associates' Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) plug-in for Outlook, saying that a vulnerability in the add-on could let attackers execute malicious software on a...
[July 12, 2002, 7:51]
File-name Flaw Threatens PGP Users
News The flaw occurs in the way PGP handles long file names in encrypted archives, Network Associates said on its site. Because of a flaw in the way PGP handles long file names in an encrypted archive, an attacker could "take control of the recipient's...
[September 6, 2002, 6:56]
Computer Prank Slips Past Security Experts
News We definitely did [see an increase in traffic]," said Jim Magdych, manager of security research for PGP Security, a Network Associates company. Post-attack analysis by both PGP Security and Bugtraq revealed that the exploit code does not actually...
[February 2, 2001, 8:55]
PGP Inventor Downplays Encryption Flaw
News The OpenPGP standard is used in many programs -- including Network Associates' PGP and GNU Privacy Guard -- to allow messages to be encrypted or digitally signed to ensure the content hasn't been changed.
[March 22, 2001, 9:58]
FTP Holes Give Attackers An Easy Way In
News A bug in popular software used to transfer files between computers over the Internet could leave a door open to online vandals and network intruders, data protection specialist PGP Security said on Monday.
[April 10, 2001, 12:34]
PGP Creator Zimmerman Joins Hush
News One of the founding fathers of modern cryptography, Phil Zimmermann -- who created PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) and thus introduced a generation of computer users to email encryption -- has left the security firm Network Associates to join Irish...
[February 20, 2001, 10:30]
PGP Encryption Defect Uncovered
News Network Associates tried to make a go at selling PGP to corporations, but gave up on that idea earlier this year. Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP, has been around for more than 10 years. Researchers claim to have detected a flaw in a popular email...
[August 12, 2002, 16:12]
News Burst: Major Security Flaw In PGP
News The problem reportedly arose from the inclusion of a key escrow feature added to PGP by Network Associates. A security flaw has been discovered in the latest versions of the PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) email encryption software.
[August 25, 2000, 12:07]
NA Confirms PGP Bug And Promises A Fix Friday
News Security firm Network Associates (NAI) has promised a fix for versions 5.5.x to 6.5.3 of its PGP (Pretty Good Protection) encryption software. Senderek found that some PGP software cannot distinguish between a third-party encryption key that had...
[August 25, 2000, 17:00]
Oracle Software Vulnerability Exposed
News Researchers at Covert Labs, part of Network Associates' PGP Security group, discovered the vulnerability and ranked its risk as "high. This is a pretty significant vulnerability for Oracle users," said Jim Magdych, security research manager for PGP...
[July 6, 2001, 9:21]
Most Laptop Thieves Not After Data
News That sentiment has made technologies, such as encryption, all the more valuable as a security measure, said Jim Magdych, security research manager for the PGP security business unit of software maker Network Associates.
[September 19, 2000, 12:03]
Spammers Try Fooling Filters With Digital Signatures
News Older versions of SpamAssassin had a rule which would (make it more likely an email would pass), if it found something that looked like a PGP signature in the message," Theo Van Dinter, lead developer for the open-source SpamAssassin project, said...
[October 13, 2003, 9:40]
Network Associates Chief Executive Digs In
News Its five business units include McAfee, Sniffer Technologies, PGP Security, Magic Solutions and MyCIO.com. Network Associates' new leader may not bring a far-reaching vision to the folds of the security services company, but he aims to change the...
[January 5, 2001, 11:35]
