3Com buys Texas Web security company
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3Com Corp., the Marlborough maker of computer-networking equipment, said it agreed to buy a Texas maker of antihacker security systems, TippingPoint Technologies Inc., for $430 million in cash. TippingPoint makes so-called intrusion-prevention systems for businesses, government agencies, colleges and universities, and telecommunications service providers and systems. TippingPoint has 125 employees at its Austin headquarters. The $47-per-share purchase price offered owners ...
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3Com makes a play for security. But is it enough for investors?
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LINUX DISTRIBUTOR Red Hat has shelled out $23 million to buy Netscape Communications&#39; Security Solutions unit from AOL. The deal means that Red Hat will get the Netscape Directory Server and Netscape Certificate
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Security firm will operate as a division of 3Com; deal expected to close next year. By Networking Pipeline News. 3Com has signed an agreement to purchase the security company TippingPoint for $340 million.
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Linux distributor Red Hat Inc.  said on Thursday that it had bought Netscape's computer user identification and management technology from America Online Inc., a unit of Time Warner Inc.
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Networking hardware and software maker 3Com Corp. said Monday that it agreed to buy TippingPoint Technologies Inc. for $430 million in cash in a move to strengthen its security offerings for business customers.
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Google Inc.  said on Tuesday it has bought Internet security startup GreenBorder Technologies Inc., which creates secure connections to protect e-mail and Web users from malicious or unwanted computer code.
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The company ponies up $3 billion for key spectrum in buying out bankrupt NextWave Telecom.
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Cisco Systems is buying privately held Protego Networks of Sunnyvale, Calif., a provider of security monitoring and threat management appliances used in enterprise and small-to-medium business networks.
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Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , the world&#39;s largest maker of equipment to direct traffic on the Internet, on Monday said it will buy privately held software developer
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Computer Associates has signed an agreement to purchase Netegrity, a provider of security software, in a deal valued at approximately $430 million.
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Cisco Systems Inc is to buy Perfigo Inc for $74 million, adding an endpoint security policy enforcement system aimed at small and medium sized organizations to the developing portfolio of products under its Network Admission Control program.
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The company on Tuesday announced that it&#39;s acquiring privately held security equipment maker Net6 for $50 million in cash. The acquisition, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2004, will thrust
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3Com Corp. COMS.O on Monday said it  will buy network security firm TippingPoint Technologies Inc.  TPTI.O for about $430 million, as 3Com expands its  telecommunications equipment offerings to compete better in the  market for large corporate users.
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Symantec Corp. on Thursday announced that is acquiring @stake Inc., perhaps the most well-known security consulting firm in the industry, for an undisclosed sum.
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Cisco has completed its 3.2 billion acquisition of WebEx online collaboration services.
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McAfee will acquire ScanAlert, a Web application security vendor, for $51 million, the companies announced Tuesday.ScanAlert, which was founded in 2001, runs a paid service that scans Web sites daily looking for security vulnerabilities and checks if e-commerce applications have up-to-date patches.McAfee said the business will be integrated into its Web Security Group, which develops McAfee&#39;s SiteAdvisor service. SiteAdvisor scans Web sites and scores them according to their risk, taking into account for example whether malicious software is hosted on the site. Consumers can download the SiteAdvisor toolbar that displays that ranking in a group of search results.Sites using ScanAlert&#39;s service display a logo that says &quot;Hacker Safe,&quot; which also appears on product listings on Web sites such as Yahoo&#39;s shopping channel and Pricegrabber.com. The service is aimed at increasing consumer confidence with e-commerce transactions, which have seen a rising level of fraud.SiteAdvisor, which is a free download for Internet Explorer and Firefox but also offers a paid version with more features, will eventually show the &quot;Hacker Safe&quot; logo in search results, McAfee said.ScanAlert said it has 8,000 customers that have more than 75,000 Web sites. Its clients include clothing retailer Guess, Toshiba and Warner Brothers. ScanAlert expects its booking revenue to be in the range of $15 million to $20 million this year.Earlier this month,&#160;McAfee splashed out $350 million for SafeBoot, a Dutch company specializing in encryption and access control.&#160;