Larry Barrett

CDC Software Corp. has added its name to the list of software companies shelling out to acquire SaaS players as they look to expand their cloud offerings. The Atlanta-based firm has entered an agreement to acquire TradeBeam, whose software-as-a-service applications focus on on-demand supply-chain management and trade management. Datamation has the details of CDC’s acquisition […]

Hospitals, universities and insurance companies continue to report massive data breaches on a weekly basis, putting hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of people at risk for identity theft. The latest security gaffe impacted almost 10,000 patients who were receiving care in New Mexico under the state’s Medicaid Salud program. A car with a laptop […]

Facebook has become the fourth-most targeted Web site for phishing scams, according to the latest data collected by security software maker Kaspersky Lab. It’s not a big surprise that phishers using complex and targeted malware to steal banking and credit card data would find a healthy niche in the faux-Facebook world. In fact, besides PayPal, […]

Phishing, that fine criminal art of setting out various traps to steal bank, credit card and personal information, has been a constant problem on the Internet in recent years, and as it turns out, one group of criminals is responsible for most of the attacks. According to a consortium that hunts down phishing attacks and […]

The latest report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group blows the whistle on one particular gang of cyber thugs who managed to wreak unprecedented havoc in the second half of 2009, stealing banking information, credit card numbers and spreading data-swiping malware at a breakneck pace. Dubbed “Avalanche” for its prodigious ability to set up fake Web […]

Software pirates, whether they’re selling knock-off copies of popular games or stolen versions of Microsoft Office, continue to make a killing at the expense of vendors, according to the latest data from IDC and the Business Software Alliance. Greed, desperation and, most of all, the wide availability of low-cost, high-performance PCs and Internet connectivity continues […]

SAP has historically relied on organic growth to remain competitive in the enterprise software market, but it broke from that pattern in a big way in Wednesday. The firm has unveiled plans to acquire Sybase for $5.8 billion in a blockbuster deal expected to close in the third quarter of this year. SAP said it […]

Verizon Wireless is the largest mobile provider in the U.S., with more than 90 million customers, and many of them are business customers. Those customers need a way to connect to their business networks wirelessly, and to be able to do so securely. So, Verizon’s Business unit has launched a a cloud-based, secure mobile service […]

The antivirus software offered by nearly three dozen top security firms might not be so secure after all, according to new research from Matousec. The security researcher ran the software offerings of 35 firms through its KHOBE testing engine, finding that it could penetrate them using what’s known as an argument-switch attack with relative ease. […]

The explosion of social media like blogs, Twitter and Facebook has made it tough for enterprises to keep track of all the data floating around on the Web that could provide valuable business insights. But IBM thinks it has an answer with its SPSS predictive analytics software. Big Blue has just released an update to […]

A stray keystroke here or there has cost an unknown number of Apple Store shoppers dearly, according to security software vendor Symantec, as hackers have constructed a bogus Web site designed to steal the account numbers and PINs of gift card holders. This latest consumer phishing scam uses a typosquatted Web site disguised as an […]

It’s an old story with a familiar ending but for users of Yahoo’s Messenger instant messaging application the emergence of a new worm that preys on people’s instinct to click before they think is wreaking considerable havoc. This latest socially engineered malware scam first appears as a friendly invite from a contact in a user’s […]