Andy Patrizio

PGP has updated a number of components in its flagship PGP Encryption Platform to improve performance, functionality and make it less obtrusive to the user. Three of the six tools have received a significant overhaul while the other three received only minor performance tweaks, according to John Dasher, director of product management for PGP. The […]

SuccessFactors on Monday announced the ULTRA release of its on-demand performance and talent evaluation software featuring an overhauled user interface and an the inclusion of several new Web 2.0 capabilities. As more and more companies—particularly small- and mid-sized (SMB) firms—turn to software-as-a-service vendors for quick and relatively inexpensive access to a whole host of key […]

IBM today formally unveiled its Jazz open development community and its first tools, the culmination of an effort designed to accommodate new collaboration technologies in the development process. The site now is open to all developers as the open, transparent environment for building Eclipse-based projects. First announced by IBM in June, Jazz.net had previously been […]

AMD’s track record for delays is becoming a real detriment to the company. The latest example is the announcement it plans a reshuffling of its desktop product release schedule, which led to some doom and gloom assessments in the blogosphere, but, according to AMD, is not that big a deal. The company had planned to […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – PC customers seeking choice can get a brand name PC, such as a Dell or HP computer, or can go to a system builder that makes a machine out of standard parts. These stores have long been known as “the white box market,” or less politely as “screwdriver shops,” since the […]

The US Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) has issued a warning that a fraudulent iPhone upgrade is making its way around the Internet and users should not be fooled into installing it. A package called “iPhone firmware 1.1.3 prep,” which described itself as “an important system update. Install this before updating to the new 1.1.3 […]

The latest in user security metrics shows that only five percent of surveyed systems were fully up to date, with all applications patched and running the latest versions. Even more disconcerting, that number is down from where it was when the firm first started doing examinations. Secunia, the Danish security firm posted a free utility […]

Security researchers are warning of a new rootkit/code dropper that has the potential to be a lot nastier if its Russian creators ever get motivated. The rootkit infects the Master Boot Record (MBR) of a computer, where it then installs a Trojan to steal online banking information. MBR-based attacks have been around since the MS-DOS […]

Microsoft’s Windows Live SkyDrive, an online storage service for sharing files and links it launched in beta this past August, became a repository for spammers to host links to their electronic junk mail. McAfee’s Avert Labs was first to point it out in an alert. Within a day, Microsoft gave the e-pests the e-boot, but […]

Developers may now be able to build .NET Framework applications using concepts previously available only on Java, thanks to the release of SpringSource’s Spring.Net. Spring is about “making it easy to swap implementations in and out,” Spring.Net Project Lead Mark Pollack told InternetNews.com. “We’re not tied to languages but to programming ideas. Spring is bringing […]

An upgraded spam-blasting worm could be poised to surpass the durable Storm worm as the nastiest botnet on the Internet. Or not. Therein lies the uncertainty of predicting how malware evolves. The worm, called Nugache, has been around since before Storm. However, Nugache never proved particularly powerful or widespread. In recent weeks, however, malware researcher […]

Microsoft’s first “Patch Tuesday” of 2008 was fairly unexceptional as the company’s monthly vulnerability fixes go, focusing on two security bulletins, only one of which is labeled “Critical,” the most severe category. The Critical bulletin, MS08-001, warns of two separate vulnerabilities in the TCP/IP stack used in all versions of Windows. According to the bulletin, […]