Larry Barrett

It’s no secret that soccer is huge in Brazil. Malware authors are certainly well aware of the nation’s affinity for the sport, and have launched a World Cup-themed scam this week targeting executives at many of the largest firms in the country. But with this come-on, the scammers have included both a tainted PDF file […]

Apple’s exclusive U.S. carrier, AT&T, has admitted that it had inadvertently exposed thousands of iPad users’ e-mail addresses — a fact revealed by a security researcher. The end result of the security lapse? More than 114,000 users’ e-mail addresses were made available, including those of some big names in politics, the media and the military. […]

Security software vendor Symantec received some good news this week when PC giant HP agreed to extend a contract that will keep its security applications installed on all HP machines for the foreseeable future. As eSecurity Planet reports, the deal keeps Symantec front and center in enterprise and consumer computer buyers’ minds and will surely […]

Adobe is preparing fixes for its popular media products, the PDF Reader, Acrobat, and Flash, all of which have been found to contain serious security holes. The fixes should come later this month, reports eSecurity Planet. Adobe Systems is promising to deliver a patch by Thursday that will resolve an exploit in its Flash Player […]

It was the worst of times these past three, four years and IT workers suffered as much as more as most. While companies across all industries were busy pink-slipping millions of workers, shuttering facilities and abandoning all non-essentially IT projects, it was the networking, software and security specialists who were out of work and largely […]

Enterprises are drowning in information as new content is being created and delivered from an increasing variety of sources ranging from the traditional to newer forms like blogs, wikis and digital media. One way to corral all that information is a content management system. eCRMGuide reports on Oracle’s latest CMS offering and why integration is […]

From a data security standpoint, it been a miserable year for Penn State University. As eSecurity Planet reports, the university is dealing with yet another serious data breach on campus after school officials confirmed that one its research computers was commandeered by a botnet for an unknown length time, potentially leaking the Social Security numbers […]

Few events galvanize the attention of world the way next week’s FIFA World Cup soccer tournament will and malware purveyors are a variety of new tactics to capitalize on its mass popularity. As eSecurity Planet reports, the latest World Cup-related malware scam features unsolicited e-mails promising match schedules and other information of interest to fans […]

Software pirates were responsible for more than $53 billion in commercial software lost last year and for every street hustler hawking knock-off copies of Windows 7 down on Canal Street, there are two or three dozen others selling stolen or counterfeit apps from their couch on various online sites. But as eSecurity Planet reports, the […]

In what’s become a weekly occurrence, another hospital has accidently divulged hundreds of patients’ most sensitive personal information by accident. As eSecurity Planet reports, this latest data breach at a major medical center really amounts to just a shortage of commonsense. A physician set up what he thought was an internal Web site to help […]

Before you go clicking on that funny or provocative link on a Facebook wall that seems to have been passed along from some of your other online friends, understand that malware maestros are a step ahead of you and are just waiting for you to take the bait. That’s the warning from leading security software […]

Hackers, like bank robbers, target the places where the data resides. This week, that place is Mop.com, one of the most heavily trafficked Web sites in the world. As eSecurity Planet reports, the scam uses blackhat SEO techniques to inject malicious code that redirects users to Web sites that then attempt to steal or record […]