Larry Barrett

The Software & Information Industry Association on Thursday said it has filed six new software piracy lawsuits on behalf of Adobe Systems, charging the sextet with selling infringing or counterfeit versions of the popular applications online. In some cases, the SIIA claims the alleged pirates were also selling educational and OEM versions of the software […]

Cloud computing, the ubiquity of mobile devices and the necessity of sharing real-time business information with multiple partners, business units and customers has created gaping security holes in enterprise IP networks, according to a new study by IT research firm Yankee Group. In its whitepaper titled “IP Network Configuration and Vulnerabilities: What You Don’t Know […]

Roane State Community College in Harriman, Tenn. is the latest institution of higher learning to accidentally divulge sensitive personal information thanks to a stolen USB drive that exposed almost 16,000 student and employee Social Security numbers last month. The data was housed on a 4GB USB drive that was taken home by an employee and […]

A group of eight hackers based in Eastern Europe were indicted on 16 separate federal counts, including computer fraud and aggravated identity theft, for their alleged role in an elaborate scheme that pilfered more than $9 million from an Atlanta-based credit card processing company. Sergei Tsurikov, 25, of Tallinn, Estonia, Viktor Pleshchuk, 28, of St. […]

IBM on Wednesday debuted WebSphere Commerce 7, a new version of its e-commerce software platform which incorporates mobile and social commerce features that let retailers provide a convenient and communal shopping experience for their customers. IBM WebSphere Commerce 7 is a fully integrated, single-platform application suite designed to bring the best elements of social networks—particularly […]

Human error is to blame for the accidental exposure last week of more than 4,500 Chaminade University student’s Social Security numbers on the private Catholic college’s official Web site. University officials discovered the snafu Wednesday and quickly removed the obscure but accessible links from the Web site. The students’ Social Security numbers were exposed for […]

Hundreds if not thousands of Facebook groups were usurped this week by an organization calling itself Control Your Info, renaming the groups “Control Your Info” and posting a message warning users of the very security vulnerability that allowed it to take control of the group. Unlike previous Facebook phishing and spyware attacks, this group claims […]

Shares of Adobe Systems and Salesforce took flight Monday after influential Goldman Sachs analyst Sarah Friar upgraded both stocks, citing strong sales and margin improvements in the near future. Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) shares rocketed up $1.93 a share, or 5 percent, to a 52-week high of $36.58 after Friar raised the stock from a “neutral” […]

VMware on Monday served up View 4, a desktop virtualization suite that runs on its vSphere platform and includes a new PC-over-IP protocol that’s supported by a wide range of key vendors including Cisco, Dell, HP and IBM. VMware officials said the new offering will go a long way toward assuaging a lot of IT […]

Microsoft on Monday announced it will acquire the Teamprise client suite from SourceGear, a move that will allow developers using Eclipse and other non-Windows operating systems to build applications using its Visual Studio suite. It also unveiled Exchange 2010, its latest e-mail and calendar server software, as promised and on schedule as the company’s TechEd […]

Radware on Monday unveiled the Alteon 5412, an application delivery platform that promises improved application switching throughput and scalability in a pay-as-you-go model for enterprise datacenters. The releases comes seven months after Radware acquired the Alteon application delivery product line—including it’s Linux-based VSS 5000 virtualization optimized networking switch—from bankrupt networking-equipment maker Nortel for $18 million. […]

More than 10,000 physicians’ and dentists’ personal data was exposed last week in New Hampshire after an employee at Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield transferred the health care providers’ Social Security numbers and other data to a personal laptop that was later stolen. Anthem spokesman Christopher Dugan said the security breach took place at […]