Alex Goldman

In its mid-year security update, Symantec warned that IT managers face both old threats and new. Malware purveyors continue to use e-mail as a vector of infection, and spam now accounts for 90 percent of all mail, but the bad guys are also using new technologies such as social media and new business methods such […]

A report from job consultants Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. said that 8.7 percent of job seekers gaining employment in Q2 2009 chose to found their own business, a sharp rise from 4.3 percent during the same quarter a year ago. The organization provides services for everyone, but tends to work with executives, according to […]

The federal government could to allow government Web sites to again place cookies on visitors’ PCs, reversing a policy instituted in 2000 that forbade the practice on all federal Web sites. The new policy aims to address privacy concerns by allowing users to opt out of the cookies, by clearly describing their use and purpose, […]

McAfee (NYSE:MFE) today announced increasing revenues, beating estimates, but declining profits. The company announced the acquisition of MX Logic, an aggressive, worldwide SaaS security provider, for $140 million. McAfee said that MX Logic has 40,000 corporate customers with over four million end users and 1,800 channel partners. “The acquisition of MX Logic will reinforce our […]

An accidental ampersand left key Microsoft code vulnerable to attack, while also putting at risk other vendors’ software, like Adobe’s Flash. That’s according to a blog post by Michael Howard, Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) team principal security program manager. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) fixed the problem on Tuesday, but declined to explain in detail the […]

On Friday, according to several reports, members of India’s Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) will be deployed to the Bangalore campus of outsourcing specialist Infosys. Infosys is one of six companies that received a bomb threat in January, according to Silicon India. Infosys rival Wipro was also threatened at the time. Why now? The news […]

Where’s the value in enterprise software? While experts expected this to be the year for security, other sectors are attracting significant investment. One case in point is data analysis, or business information (BI). IBM on Tuesday acquired business intelligence provider SPSS for $1.2 billion. IBM has invested billions in this area before, notably buying Cognos […]

The personal information of 200,000 soldiers and 20,245 hospital patients, along with other critical data from government networks, is being made to the public through peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, according to testimony yesterday at a hearing of the House Government and Oversight Committee. The security breach included data like names, Social Security Numbers, addresses, illnesses, next […]

At the same time that it’s announcing the $1.2 billion acquisition of analytics player SPSS, IBM today unveiled its plans for an integrated analytics offering called the IBM Smart Analytics System. The efforts build on IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) unveiling earlier this year of its Business Analytics and Optimization (BAO) massively parallel technology designed to be […]

RSA today officially released its RSA SecurID Token for iPhone product. The SecurID Token has actually been available unofficially on the iPhone App Store since last month for those who could find it. The product delivers RSA’s one time password software token to the iPhone and two factor authentication to protected services. A similar software […]

A virus masquerading as a video of ESPN’s telegenic reporter Erin Andrews is being spread through a variety of deceptive methods, leaving both Mac and Windows users vulnerable, according to security experts. The video that the malware pretends to be does exist, but Andrews took legal action to have it removed from Web sites after […]

Large organizations have hundreds of systems. Keeping track of what people are doing on them isn’t easy, as incidents involving snooping and even alleged crimes have shown. Cisco’s recent threat report said that role management could help IT departments handle the insider threat. With role management, IT gives software a definition of what a particular […]