Larry Barrett

Thousands of Californians’ personal data may be at risk following the theft of a hard drive that contained unencrypted records that had been improperly removed from a hospital by a Kaiser Permanente employee. eSecurity Planet takes a look. More than 15,000 Kaiser Permanente patients in Northern California this week are being notified that their personal […]

More news keeps coming related to Google’s announcement that it was hit by cyber attacks from China. Datamation has some surprising details on how the attack occurred. McAfee (NYSE: MFE) on Thursday said a new and previously undisclosed zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer software provided the opening hackers needed earlier this week to break […]

The data breaches just keep on coming. eSecurity Planet has the details about the latest incident, which saw a hacker snag the account login information from thousands of New Yorkers. Officials at Suffolk County National Bank in Long Island, N.Y. this week are warning more than 8,000 customers that their account login information was likely […]

German software giant SAP on Thursday announced preliminary fourth quarter and full-year financial results that were less than stellar but somewhat better than analysts had predicted in light of the global economic downturn in 2009. Company officials said an early scan of its fourth quarter figures shows a 9 percent decline in total sales to […]

Despite the bad name it gives to the e-commerce industry as a whole, passing off pirated wares as legitimate is far from new on the Web, and it continues to proliferate despite efforts by law enforcement agencies, software groups and e-commerce hubs like eBay to crack down on the practice. At least some headway is […]

ServerWatch has details of a new survey that reveals how IT views the adoption of virtualization technologies. IT consulting services and equipment provider CDW on Tuesday served up some statistics that indicate that while enterprise customers recognize the inherent financial and energy savings derived from virtualization, they’re still a bit gun-shy when it comes to […]

RealNetworks founder Rob GlaserSource: RealNetworks RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser has resigned from his post as CEO after 16 years, saying it was time to “step away” from the day-to-day operations of the Seattle-based company. “I’m grateful to all of our stakeholders — customers, partners, shareholders and, most of all, employees — for the support and […]

Adobe has taken a significant step toward shoring up its popular Acrobat and Reader programs. The company today issued a patch to combat a zero-day vulnerability in its PDF software. eSecurity Planet has the details. Adobe Systems on Tuesday released a patch for a critical PDF zero-day vulnerability that was causing computers running its ubiquitous […]

So far, the RIM BlackBerry and BB Messenger has managed to avoid much of the threats of mobile malware, despite its ubiquity. Still, there’s at least one new danger to worry about, as Enterprise Mobile Today reports. Security software vendor McAfee (NYSE: MFE) is warning social networking fans — particularly those who like to access […]

Is it too early to celebrate? Analyst firm Forrester Research has issued a rosy forecast for IT spending this year, declaring the recession “unofficially over.” CIO Update has the details. Forrester Research on Tuesday revealed a positive outlook for the information technology sector this year, predicting that global IT spending will increase more than 8 […]

One of the more common gimmicks of spammers is to use popular celebrities as bait to get people to read the e-mail. It must be successful because they keep using the gimmick. The years change and so do the names. For 2009, who were the most popular men and women used to get you to […]

With enterprise IT under the gun to better manage and track service levels, it should come as no surprise that CA is strengthening its efforts in the arena while building on other recent datacenter and network management acquisitions — NetQoS and Cassatt. Datamation has the story. CA on Monday announced it has acquired Oblicore, a […]