Larry Barrett

IBM’s X-Force security research and response team has unveiled its top security trends for enterprise customers to prepare for in 2010 and, much like fashion and music, that which is old will be new again. X-Force researchers predict there will be a resurgence it what it called “old school” attacks next year with large-scare worm […]

Adobe Systems this weekend will debut an updated version of its Acrobat.com hosted-application system that includes 35 new features, a revamped display design and its first mobile application. Acrobat.com’s 6 million-plus registered users access the site to share and store files, access word processing and Web conferencing applications and take advantage of a handy PDF […]

California-based health insurer Health Net on Wednesday admitted that an external hard drive housing the medical records and Social Security numbers of 1.5 million patients went missing from its Northeast headquarters in Shelton, Conn. more than six months ago. Company officials said the lost drive contained sensitive information dating as far back as 2002 for […]

After a year of unprecedented proliferation of spyware, malware and cyber attacks of all types, security software vendor Symantec warns there’s plenty more where that came from in its just-released 2010 Security Trends to Watch report. Kevin Haley, Symantec Security Response group product manager, this week posted an ironic blog entry titled “Don’t Read This […]

Forced to do a ton more with a lot less, the federal government will invest billions over the next two fiscal years to upgrade the nation’s information systems using the low-cost, high-availability cloud-based applications used by its private sector brethren. But even if this mandate delivers all the savings and efficiencies that Federal Chief Information […]

The U.S. Army on Friday confirmed that a hard drive was either stolen or lost from the Army Corp of Engineers’ Southwestern Division in Dallas, exposing the names and Social Security numbers of more than 60,000 soldiers and civilian personnel. Most of the data files were from soldiers who went before the 2008 sergeant first […]

Microsoft on Wednesday announced that SAP will be the “preferred partner” for customers buying its budgeting, planning and forecasting applications, a move that’s clearly intended to send a message to Oracle. The deal represents an extension of the two software giants’ existing and largely amicable relationship as well as their shared disdain for Oracle. While […]

T-Mobile this week acknowledged that millions of records from thousands of its wireless customers in England were sold by employees to third-party contractors who then called customers as their wireless plans were about to expire. T-Mobile officials notified England’s Information Commission of the out and out violation of customer privacy rights, saying that the activity […]

MassMutual officials this week confirmed that one of its employee databases was accessed by an unauthorized person or persons, exposing an unknown number of employees’ personal data for a yet-to-be-determined amount of time. The Springfield, Mass.-based insurer said the compromised database was being maintained by an unidentified, third-party vendor and contained “a limited amount of […]

McAfee on Tuesday released the sobering results from its fifth annual Virtual Criminology Report, warning nations and companies that politically motivated cyber attacks continue to escalate around the globe and will for the foreseeable future. The report dovetails with comments made by McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt in October during the company’s FOCUS 09 conference when […]

IBM on Monday launched a new cloud computing service that incorporates more than a petabyte of business-intelligence and analytics applications that will be first used by more than 200,000 of its own employees. The service, which is geared to take on Google, Microsoft, Amazon and other vendors in the rapidly developing cloud-computing market, will let […]

IBM on Friday jumped on the virtualization security bandwagon with the release of Virtual Server Security for VMware vSphere, an application designed to secure workloads running on virtual servers. Enterprise as well as small and midsized businesses continue to embrace virtualization technology from the likes of VMware, Microsoft and a raft of open source vendors […]