Larry Barrett

In what’s become an all-too-frequent occurrence, thousands of UCSF medical school patients have been notified that their personal data was compromised after someone swiped a laptop from an employee late last year. eSecurity Planet breaks down exactly what information was exposed and what the university is doing to help those affected. Officials at the University […]

Akamai shares got a nice boost Monday after a pair of influential analysts upgraded the content deliver network’s stock ahead of the company’s fourth-quarter earnings report due out later this week. Pacific Crest analyst Chad Bartley bumped Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) to an “outperform” rating from “market perform” and set a 12-month price target of $32 […]

Facebook has endured more than its fair share of malware and hacking scams. In the latest affront to users’ security, a bogus and rather convincing virus alert was spreading like wildfire throughout the community. eSecurity Planet takes a closer look at what made this particular piece of malware so viral, so fast. A massive scareware […]

VMware made its name in the virtualization software market. But now it’s branching out into more cloud-based offerings as it builds out its Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) model. Datamation takes a closer look at some of the companies VMware may want to acquire in 2010 to make it happen. Virtualization software maker VMware delivered stellar fourth-quarter sales […]

CA on Thursday named William McCracken as its new chief executive and tiptoed past analysts’ estimates in its third fiscal quarter, posting a profit of $233 million, or $0.43 a share, on sales of $1.13 billion. The $1.13 billion in sales represents an 8 percent improvement from the year-earlier quarter when the company reported identical […]

Declining IT budgets combined with growing cyber threats from around the globe has put IT executives in the uncomfortable position of having to pray for the best while expecting the worst. eSecurity Planet examines just how pervasive this new breed of uber-aggressive cyber attacks is and what companies can do to protect their data. Cyber […]

Apache continues to fight the good fight against spam. The firm today released what it bills as a major step forward in its popular open source SpamAssassin product. eSecurity Planet takes a look at the new offering, and hears from Apache about how it aims to make life easier for mail managers. Spammers beware! A […]

With the Sun Microsystems buy now all but behind it, Oracle is looking ahead. And for some clues on where the enterprise software — and now, hardware — giant is going, one need only look to the past. That is, the past of its great rival, IBM. Datamation has the story. It took Oracle 30 […]

German software giant SAP on Wednesday posted a profit of 727 million euros ($1.02 billion) on sales of 3.19 billion euros, in line with its preliminary guidance but still disappointing compared to the relatively robust results offered by other tech luminaries in the past month. The 3.19 billion euros in sales represents a 9 percent […]

Senior executives at ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil in 2008 fell victim to a what security experts called “tenacious” and “clever” cyber attacks that exposed some of the oil titans’ most critical intellectual property. eSecurity Planet explains who was responsible for the attacks and what implications this new form of corporate espionage has for all […]

How much is protecting intellectual property worth to the software industry? It seems to grow each year. And 2009 set a new record. Datamation has the story about the latest efforts from one of the software industry’s principal trade group to deter piracy, and how big a windfall that resulted in for 24 tipsters last […]

Data breaches are a mainstay of the news cycle these days. But how much do they actually cost businesses? A lot, according to a new study by the Ponemon Institute and PGP Corp. The researchers found that even though the total number of incidents fell from 2008 to 2009, the cost per breach rose. eSecurity […]