Gene Hughes has resigned as president and CEO of McAfee Inc. to become CEO of Websense Inc., where he will help expand its security business. His McAfee team will now report to Chairman and CEO George Samenuk. Hodges will oversee Websense's business strategy and all of its day-to-day operations. At Websense, he succeeds John Carrington, who will continue at as executive chairman of the board.

CA buys automated support-tool maker

Computer Associates International Inc. has acquired Control-F1 Corp., an IT support automation software maker in Calgary, Alberta, for an undisclosed sum. Control-F1's SupportBridge products can automatically detect, prevent and repair end-user computer problems. Based on an earlier agreement, Control-F1's tools are interoperable with CA's Unicenter Service Desk software.

Novell open-source AppArmor debuts

Novell Inc. has unveiled App-Armor, an open-source project aimed at improving Linux application security. The project is based on Novell's AppArmor application security framework, which the company is donating to the project. The AppArmor framework uses security profiles to protect Linux and applications running on it from external or internal security threats.