Larry Barrett

Hundreds of thousands of BlueCross customers are in for a scare. This week, the insurance company is sending out notifications to its customers fessing up to a significant data breach that saw a thief make off with 57 hard drives from a call center in Tennessee. The hard drives contained encoded — but not encrypted […]

VMware shrugged off a tough economy and challenges to its dominion of the virtualization software market on Monday when it leapfrogged analyst estimates for its fourth quarter earnings. For the quarter ended December 26, 2009, VMware (NYSE: VMW) posted a profit of $127 million, or $0.31 a share, on sales of $608 million. A consensus […]

Malware authors have long sought to leverage public interest in hot-topic news items to their own ends. More recently, they are turning to the task of manipulating search engine results — “black hat SEO” — to trick news-seekers into becoming victims. eSecurity Planet looks at the latest news story to get similarly co-opted: The results […]

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) on Thursday gave its investors — and the information technology industry as a whole — a dose of good news when the tech bellwether easily hurdled analysts’ estimates in its fourth quarter, returning an adjusted profit of $2.19 billion, or $6.79 a share, on sales of $6.67 billion. A survey of analysts […]

Small businesses are the focus of a new initiative by Microsoft and financial software firm Intuit, which will be linking their cloud-based efforts to better appeal to SMBs and the software developers targeting them. Datamation has the full story. Microsoft and Intuit on Wednesday said they will integrate their respective cloud platforms in an effort […]

Users of Verizon’s FiOS broadband service can expect improved security thanks to a partnership with McAfee. eSecurityPlanet has the details. Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and security software vendor McAfee (NYSE: MFE) on Wednesday announced they will partner together to provide an upgraded version of Verizon Internet Security Suite (VISS) to more than 9 million FiOS Internet […]

eBay’s (NASDAQ: EBAY) transition from a pure online auction site to more of a wholesale liquidator and transaction-processing company paid nice dividends in its fourth quarter. The company reported adjusted earnings of $585.8 million, or $0.44 a share, on sales of $2.37 billion — a 16 percent improvement from the year-ago quarter. eBay shares closed […]

Internet scams are hardly new, but eSecurityPlanet has the story of why they’re a growing threat even though more people are aware of the dangers. Internet users are more educated and suspicious than ever before but, according to a survey conducted in October for storage software giant EMC’s RSA security division, they’re still falling victim […]

Many enterprise software firms have begun to bow to the change in the marketplace and are making the move to offer their products as both on-premises and as a software-as-a-service model. BMC is the latest to offer a SaaS version of what had only been an on-premises product. Datamation has the details. BMC Software on […]

Lincoln Financial Services and Lincoln Financial Advisors are now in the process of notifying more than 1.2 million customers that their personal data may have been compromised after someone got their hands on a username and password used to access the financial services providers’ portfolio management system. LFS and LFA, a pair of broker-dealer subsidiaries […]

IT security is fast-becoming a bigger issue worldwide. eSecurityPlanet explains why and what segments of security software are seeing the biggest growth. Market researcher IDC predicts security software sales in the Asia-Pacific region will surge by double digits in 2010 as enterprise customers loosen their purse strings to safeguard their most sensitive and business-critical data. […]

It’s really not the sort of honor that stokes national pride. Looking at the leading purveyors of Internet attack traffic in the third quarter, Akamai found that a disproportionate number of attacks originated from in Russia. eSecurity Planet examines the report, and looks at the other countries that are home to the most prolific sources […]