Larry Barrett

In the wake of several high-profile cyber attacks on U.S. companies by hackers based overseas, most people have no problem with the U.S. government using cyber spying tools and techniques to monitor unfriendly countries and organizations that would do us harm. As eSecurity Planet discovered, nearly two in three respondents admitted they approve of some […]

For years, SAP wasn’t particularly concerned about dissuading customers, competitors and partners of the prevailing sentiment that it was a slow, methodical and, at times, plodding organization that abhorred change. But as eCRM Guide reports, a regime change and a stagnant stock price has lit a fire under top executives charged with finding the German […]

Oracle and CEO Larry Ellison are no strangers to controversy. This time around, it’s the U.S. Justice Department that has a bone to pick with the software juggernaut. As Datamation reports, the DoJ has filed a lawsuit accusing Oracle of giving government customers “far inferior” pricing terms compared to its commercial customers, a claim that […]

After months and years of exhaustive research and investigations, Slovenia authorities in conjunction with FBI busted a 23 year-old man known as “Iserdo” for allegedly creating and selling an extremely popular and effective botnet kit used to spread malware and build massive botnets like the notorious Mariposa botnet. As eSecurity Planet reports, private security software […]

Cyber crime continues to evolve from basic porn spam and Trojans to complex phishing scams that use information readily available on Facebook to trick users into divulging log-in and password information. But as eSecurity Planet reports, most of the coordinated data breaches impacted companies and consumers last year were executed by organized crime syndicates. The […]

Adobe is moving forward in the crowded enterprise content management (ECM) space with the $240 million acquisition of the Swiss firm Day Software Holding. Adobe is already a market leader in publishing and document management, and with the acquisition of Day Software, the company is charging ahead in a crowded ECM market occupied by heavyweights […]

Cybersecurity is becoming an expensive proposition. According to a new survey from the Ponemon Institute and security vendor ArcSight, businesses that participated in the study were hit, on average, with just over one major security incident each week. To cope with those attacks, businesses polled said they spend a median of $3.8 million annually, with […]

It was a mixed bag for SAP in its second quarter. The business applications leader managed to grow its total software sales by 16 percent versus the year-ago quarter, but unfavorable currency exchange rates and severance pay for a pair of ousted execs eroded the bottom line. As eCRM Guide reports, SAP did manage to […]

Big pharmaceutical companies have a lot to keep track of. The prospect of recalls, counterfeit drug shipments or an outbreak of a health emergency in a distant corner of the globe puts a premium on real-time information about the movement of drugs across their supply chain. In response to that need, Oracle has developed it […]

The fortunes continue to rise for vendors offering software-as-a-service and cloud technologies, as businesses are projected to continue their embrace of new systems that offer lower entry and maintenance costs. By 2014, SaaS applications will account for 16 percent of global software sales, according to the latest forecast from market researcher Gartner. Datamation has the […]

Hackers aren’t terribly original. They stick to the tried and true and monitor popular online culture to scope out possible vulnerabilities in the technologies and formats of the sites, applications and devices we use most. Then they pounce. As eSecurity Planet reports, truncated URLs that Internet users have become comfortable clicking on without a second […]

IBM had some promising news for IT buyers and vendors this year: Optimism! The company reported better-than-expected profits and revenues tempered only by currency fluctuations, and better still, raised its expectations for the year ahead. That’s going to go over well among corporate IT — which is anxious about undertaking new projects with the economic […]