Larry Barrett

Members of the Vanderbilt University community began receiving some unwelcome news last week, as the school issued warnings to more than 7,000 current and former students that their personal information could be at risk. The incident involved a desktop computer containing the students’ names and Social Security numbers stolen from a professor’s locked office. eSecurity […]

It’s a rare day when you can get top executives from the major wireless carriers in the same room and get them to agree with each other, but the opening keynotes at the CTIA Wireless conference was about the best chance for that to happen. From wireless buildout to the FCC, the heads of the […]

Even as e-commerce continues to boom along, not all those sales are legitimate. Ecommerce Guide details how a new alliance that includes online auction giant eBay, the National Retail Federation and the FBI plan to work together to help prevent theft and ensure consumers are buying legitimate goods. eBay and the National Retail Federation announced […]

If you don’t think of cybersecurity in terms of where you are, it may be time to start doing so. eSecurityPlanet details a new report from security firm Symantec that ranks major U.S. cities in terms of cybersecurity risk. The results may surprise you. Only in cyberspace could the city of Seattle be considered the […]

IBM has reincarnated Lotus Notes, that aging messaging and collaboration system from the pre-Internet era, into a modern, cloud-capable e-mail, conferencing and collaboration system. And after just two months on the market, IBM’s partners are embracing it rather quickly. Datamation has the details. IBM said this week that just two months after rolling out its […]

For most people, the prospect of navigating a customer-service call center to find a solution to a problem is an unhappy thought. The waits can be long, the answers unsatisfactory, and the representatives somewhere short of knowledgeable. But IBM thinks it can do better. In a partnership with Assurant, IBM has developed an algorithm-drive technology […]

Cybercrime, which includes identify theft, phishing and other nefarious online acts, is on the grow despite the efforts of law enforcement and security firms. eSecurityPlanet details where the growth is, including a certain irony behind the most popular type of e-mail scam. The latest data from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) confirms what […]

Facebook has cropped up in yet another malware incident. The latest involves bogus messages scammers are sending to tens of millions of users warning them to reset their accounts. The messages contain an attachment that installs a password stealer when a recipient clicks on the link. Security vendor McAfee warns that the Facebook hoax could […]

Microsoft may have lost some credibility with the developer community in its previous iterations of Internet Explorer, but it’s trying to win them back with IE 9. At its annual MIX developers conference, the software giant preview the forthcoming version of its Web browser, promising developers a rich environment for their applications. HTML Goodies has […]

Stock manipulation schemes are nothing new. But when cybercriminals pilfer investors’ passwords and use those to artificially inflate the stock price of pubic companies — well, that’s original. And as eSecurity Planet reports, it happens to be the scheme that the Securities and Exchange Commission cracked down this week. But while the story may differ, […]

Many CIOs may rank data security as their organization’s top priority, but getting a handle on everything that needs to be secured can be a daunting prospect. That’s where RSA aims to come in with an updated edition of its Data Loss Prevention offering that promises a slew of enhancements designed to tighten up a […]

If you’re going to win in the smartphone game, you’ve got to get the developers on board. That’s a lesson that Apple, Google and RIM all know, and Microsoft gets the message, too. At its MIX10 developer conference, Microsoft talked up the forthcoming Silverlight 4, which the company is offering as a near-final release candidate, […]