Larry Barrett

The coming year is going to be a busy year for the bad buys — and those IT personnel charged with keeping systems safe and secure. As eSecurity Planet reports, 2010 will see an increase in the breadth and complexity of security threats. Security researchers at business software developer CA this week warned enterprise customers […]

Americans love their celebrities, and spammers have gotten wise. Security software vendor McAfee has a new report warning of the activities of U.S. spam purveyors operating under the radar, and eSecurityPlanet’s got the story. McAfee’s December spam report suggests that while antivirus and antispyware vendors continue to improve their security software offerings on a daily […]

Eastern Illinois University adds its name to the growing number of schools that have fallen prey to hackers. eSecurityPlanet takes a look at the latest attack, which compromised the information of thousands of students. Eastern Illinois University officials this week said they are investigating how and why hackers infiltrated the school’s admissions server last month, […]

eSecurity Planet has the scoop on the return of Koobface, a devious computer worm that’s targeting Facebook users this holiday season. Facebook users this week found out the hard way that ’tis the season to have your computer rendered useless by the latest variant of the infamous Koobface worm. According to Panda Security, Koobface.GK is […]

A business focus on sustainability isn’t just about saving the planet: Increasingly, it’s about saving money. And with major companies like Walmart pushing suppliers to get serious about the concept, sustainability can become a competitive differentiator. Enter SAP, with a new application designed to help businesses better understand, track and take action on their enterprise-wide […]

eSecurity Planet has a story on a new threat spreading quickly across the Web: A complicated SQL injection attack with the potential to steal credit cards and financial data. And at least one researcher says its creators may still be refining their technique. A new and fairly complex SQL injection attack that began in late […]

Microsoft and NetApp are aiming to cash in on customers’ growing demand for datacenter solutions that cut costs and boost performance, teaming up to provide integrated offerings in the realms of cloud computing, virtualization and data storage and management apps. Enterprise Storage Forum takes a look. NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced a […]

It’s hard to keep tabs on all corners of the network, isn’t it? IBM says it feels your pain. Datamation has the details on the latest from Big Blue, a subscription-based monitoring service to give enterprises of all sizes a clearer sense of what’s happening across the network and quickly address outages and bottlenecks. IBM […]

CA shareholders got some good news Wednesday morning when Deutsche Bank analyst Todd Rakar upgraded the enterprise software developer’s stock from a “hold” recommendation to a “buy” and bumped up his 12-month price target from $22 to $28 a share. CA (NASDAQ: CA) shares rallied up $0.81, or 4 percent, to $22.71 on the news. […]

Symantec on Wednesday announced its now offering its flagship security and storage applications as a subscription service through the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Customers looking to quickly deploy and manage Symantec’s (NASDAQ: SYMC) enterprise-class Endpoint Protection and Veritas Storage Foundation applications can pay an hourly or monthly rate through the EC2 interface rather than […]

Everyone’s racing to virtualize, right? Big Blue’s no exception. ServerWatch has the story about IBM’s new “soup-to-nuts” hardware, software and services release to consolidate and virtualize data loads on its System z mainframes. IBM on Tuesday debuted new hardware, software and services packages for enterprise customers that want to consolidate and virtualize Linux-based data loads […]

Governance, risk and compliance tools have long been critical in the financial arena. Now Oracle’s banking on growing demand for GRC tools in the rest of the enterprise, with an updated edition of its security and compliance management suite. Datamation has the details. Oracle today debuted its newly integrated governance, risk and compliance management suite, […]