Larry Barrett

The bad news is that spam and phishing attacks continue to become more sophisticated and, in many cases, more successful in their attempts to exploit both consumers and enterprise users. The good news is security firms are constantly tuning and updating their products to better defend against online threats. eSecurity Planet reports on the latest […]

CA is steaming ahead with its push into virtualization-management software, touting a host of new apps that will help admins govern privileges and access to virtual systems. CA’s new applications come as IT grapple with the migration from physical servers to the virtualized environment, which raises both security concerns and worries about the loss of […]

There are some honors you don’t want to be recognized for. Leading the world in the distribution of spam is one of them. But that’s where the United States finds itself, according to a new report from software-security vendor Sophos. The firm ranked the U.S. at the top of its “Dirty Dozen” list, attributing the […]

Spammers have evolved over time to become more discerning in both the content of their messages and the targets of their illicit operation. As eSecurity Planet reports, the latest study from Symantec found that people living and working in less populous states such as Idaho and Alabama receive the highest percentage of spam in their […]

Malware scams come and go but the latest incarnation documented by security software vendor Sophos is barnstorming the Internet with unsolicited e-mails purporting to be requests for payment from the world’s most prominent online auction site. As eSecurity Planet unearthed, this latest textbook example of socially engineered malware is infecting users’ smartphones and PCs with […]

AMR, the parent company of American Airlines, ran into some choppy air last month when it discovered a key hard drive containing the names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of thousands of current and former employees was stolen from its headquarters. As eSecurity Planet discovered, this latest high-profile data breach impacted current and former […]

The IT corollary to Willie Sutton’s famous quip that he robbed banks because “that’s where the money is,” might be that hackers break into servers because that’s where the valuable data is. Security breaches continue to bedevil businesses and institutions despite efforts to protect their servers. eSecurityPlanet details the latest breach at the University of […]

Adobe Systems boasts two popular applications, Acrobat and Reader, related to its widely-used PDF document format. Acrobat is used for the creation and distribution of PDFs while the free Adobe Reader is used to view PDFs files as well as print them. Unfortunately, the popularity of Adobe’s software makes it a target of malicious hackers […]

Just as businesses are increasingly moving their data centers and productivity applications to the cloud, information security is finding a home up there, too. The latest addition to the growing portfolio of cloud-based security services comes from

Students and faculty at Florida International University this week are learning a hard lesson shared by so many of their contemporaries around the country in the past year after school officials said an unsecured database exposed their most personal and sensitive information. As eSecurity Planet discovered, this latest security gaffe at a major university shows […]

Companies and end-users alike are constantly living in fear of the malicious hacker, but as the latest example shows us, the worst enemy of our privacy and security is often human error. In this case, a programming error exposed almost a quarter of a million medical records at Anthem Blue Cross. eSecurity Planet takes a […]

Many questioned Oracle’s controversial purchase of Sun Microsystems which took much longer to complete than expected due to government scrutiny of the deal. Skeptics raised concern that Oracle didn’t know anything about running a hardware company, much less one that was floundering to make a profit. Once the deal was finally completed, more questions were […]