Larry Barrett

Salesforce.com has long staked its claim on providing an alternative to deployed software. Now, the software-as-a-service (SaaS) pioneer has new reasons to crow: Customers moving to migrate to its CRM and enterprise apps propelled Salesforce to profits and sales ahead of Wall Street estimates. eCRM Guide has the story. SaaS pioneer Salesforce had no trouble […]

Security software vendors stand to make a killing throughout the rest of 2010 and into the middle of the decade. As CIOUpdate reports, the scourge of new malware and cyber attacks targeting enterprises and consumers has propelled security applications to the top of most IT administrators’ priority list. Gartner reports that the consumer security market […]

Apple’s never been afraid to push the envelope and impose its will and consumer-friendly technologies to expand or — in some cases — create new markets and revenue streams. As Enterprise Mobile Today reports, the recent hire of near field communications expert Benjamin Vigier and reports of some early mobile payment technology testing are clear […]

If you use Facebook, you’re probably already familiar with the myriad malware and spam scams out there preying on the open community atmosphere to rip you off and spread more malicious code. As eSecurity Planet discovered, a new Facebook Hacker kit is making its way around the Internet giving even the most inexperienced, would-be hackers […]

Forget about the paper clips, Post-It notes and disposable pens. The stuff that most workers steal from their employers is far more valuable and, frighteningly, much more difficult to secure than the stash stored in the office supply closet. As eSecurity Planet reports, a new survey by Harris interactive on behalf of security software firm […]

Adobe Systems this week moved Flash 10.1 out of beta, giving developers and consumers an opportunity to download and test drive its latest multimedia player app. As Enterprise Networking Planet reports, the much-anticipated release will surely be viewed as a boon for Android smartphone owners and developers writing apps for the fast-growing mobile platform. It […]

Malware aficionados are doing their best to make sure Internet users are lulled to sleep, using what appear to be benign subject titles in unsolicited emails to get their meat hooks on your passwords and banking information. As eSecurity Planet discovered, the latest wave of Trojan-laden malware scams are particularly effective at swiping users’ log-in […]

Security software vendor Zscaler this week said hackers have successfully targeted a Red Cross website for the second time in five months, giving data thieves yet another way to capture and steal Internet users’ personal information. As eSecurity Planet reports, this latest piece of complex malware was injected in a JavaScript file on several of […]

Community college officials in Florida are scrambling to notify more than 126,000 students that their personal information was inadvertently exposed online following a routine software upgrade. As eSecurity Planet reports, this latest breach underscores just how vulnerable U.S. universities and colleges have become in recent years as more and more data is moved around between […]

It hasn’t been the best of months for BlackBerry maker Research In Motion. Less than a week after Saudi Arabia briefly showed its teeth by disabling some BlackBerry services for a few hours, India has given the company until month’s end to address security concerns of its own. As Enterprise Mobile Today reports, India has […]

Thanks to the release of new smartphones such as Motorola’s Droid X and Sprint’s HTC EVO 4 models, handsets running Google’s Android mobile operating system made huge strides in the second quarter. As Enterprise Mobile Today reports, the latest Gartner data confirms the obvious: the smartphone market is enjoying unprecedented growth in the U.S. and […]

It was just a matter of time before hackers devised a Trojan capable of wreaking SMS havoc for smartphones running the Android mobile operating system. As eSecurity Planet discovered, security software researchers have found an SMS-sending Trojan that’s targeting Android-based devices to send pricey text messages to premium numbers after users’ install what seems to […]